How to assess the performance and maturity of the current network and transport management set-up as input for identification of improvement opportunities?  This in areas like network design, planning & control, carrier management, order management, planning & booking, execution management, freight audit & pay and performance management?

How to save on costs and improve the performance of the supply chain in general and transportation in particular by optimization of  network design, carrier management, transportation planning, transport management and continuous improvement initiatives?

Outcome of the opportunity identification can be that a new Transport Management System (TMS) or related tool is needed or the current TMS needs to be replaced for other reasons. How to elaborate requirements, shortlist potential solution/providers shortlisted, request/evaluate proposals and contract/implement the preferred solution?

To improve your end-to-end supply chain visibility, a real-time transportation visibility (RTTV) solution is needed.  The core functionality of these platforms is to provide in-transit tracking information and ETA predictions during transport of shipments from pick-up till delivery. Various providers offer all kind of solutions. Benefits regarding improvement of the supply chain performance and cost reduction are obvious but how to select and implement the solution that best fits your objectives and requirements?

For best in class transport performance, use of a state-of-the art integrated Transport Management System (TMS) powered by high quality data is crucial to be able to realise transport costs, service quality, agility and sustainability objectives. Often shippers and logistic service providers don’t make use of all the capabilities of their TMS and/or the transport performance is not meeting objectives because of TMS issues. How to optimise the use of such a TMS to realise the related benefits?

Companies today have overall sustainability goals and supply chain managers and logistics service providers are asked to develop strategies and plans to contribute to related objectives. To support this contribution, the transportation management services, processes, and systems need to be optimised to be able to achieve these often-ambitious environmental impact KPI's. How to do this?

As supply chains become more digital, the transport management systems (TMS) used by shippers/4PLs must support seamless collaboration with a wide range of forwarders and carriers. This requires high-quality, real-time data exchange across multiple steps in the transport lifecycle. But which integration options are available, what functionality do they offer, and—most importantly—who pays for what?