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When Transportation Agility Matters™

Agile transportation management with global supply chain in-transit inventory management visibility for all modes of product movement

When Transportation Agility Matters

Agile transportation management for when freight costs are changing so fast and you need to better a way to stay in control of your procurement costs

When Transportation Agility Matters

Agile transportation management for when you need to improve your freight management and reduce overall spending and want to align transportation and procurement teams

When Transportation Agility Matters

Agile transportation management for when you still have to manage multiple data systems and these various data silos continue to cause data trust issues

When Transportation Agility Matters

Agile transportation management for when your management wants accurate and proactive executive level analytics with full drill down to help make smarter business decisions

container ship at deep terminal seaport

TMSfirst excels at supporting ocean shipment requirements for Freight Forwarders, NVOCC’s and Freight Brokers with excellent supply chain visibility to assist businesses synchronize sophisticated procedures and processes right from the juncture of origination to the final point, while carrying out consolidations in a streamlined manner with visual analytics to show status of all container ship locations and port status.

garment containers unloading from airplane Airbus 380

TMSfirst excels at supporting air cargo shipment requirements and the meticulous orchestration of air and land resources required for a seamless process of consolidation, transload, store, coordinating and documentation with sophisticated algorithms, business rules and tendering capabilities, our network-based TMS improves freight capacity matching of much broader base of carriers, brokers, private fleets and other sources of capacity that are part of the network.

Long Haul Semi Truck

TMSfirst excels at supporting rail logistics with real time updates and the desire to avoid taking diversions while ensuring shortest transit times with complete transloading optimization and reduced demurrage fees with rate optimization to avoid stock out and detention and the seamless optimization of bulk logistics audit, dispatch, carrier management, operations & procurement management with invoice auditing which includes tariffs, fuel charges, penalties and overcharges.

Containerised Rail Freight

TMSfirst excels at bulk rail and trucking shipping requirements around the clock with ensured accountability controls on HS&E and helps avoid all demurrage and optimizes transloads ensuring end-to-end supply chain visibility and supports mobile apps with and with GPRS and scales well beyond 10,000 trucks.

Tanker Truck

TMSfirst excels at support mixed trucking modes such as FTL, LTL and the last mile delivers for B2C and B2B with complete transportation management for order expediting and optimized freight options to dramatically reduce costs with our multi-modal rates structure, while showing status and location of all good movements graphically for freight visibility.

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Solve Complex
Supply Chain Challenges

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One Solution
Born in the Cloud

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Optimize In-Transit
Inventory Management Visibility

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Harmonize Data Silos for
Decision Grade Insight

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Execute Your Business
Transformation Initiatives

The next generation of TMS solutions like TMSfirst’s AI-driven Transportation Management with In-transit Inventory Management Visibility single solution are eliminating previous generational data silos with easier-to-use and system maintenance helping thought-leading businesses reduce transportation costs often by 12% to 25% within a cloud-native self-configuring architecture.

Solving Increasingly Complex Supply Chain Challenges

From

Structural Challenges for Most Today

  • Not Integrated

    Disconnected processes, systems, applications and data

  • Siloed Decisions

    Misaligned priorities leading to disconnected and uninformed decision making across the business

  • Poor Data

    Late, inaccurate and incomplete data leading to indecision

  • Reactive

    A series of hasty decisions and delayed responses resulting in poor outcomes

To

The Modern Supply Chain

  • Integrated

    Unified supply chain technology platform and interconnected partner network

  • Connected Decisions

    Aligned priorities leading to connected and informed decisions making across supply chain, purchasing and logistics operations

  • Harmonized

    Timely, accurate, and complete data enabling decision grade insight

  • Proactive

    Business transformation and supply chain and procurement teams working together as one

One Transportation Management Solution Born in the Cloud

Transportation Management System Management of All Transportation Activity with Bi-directional ERP Integration including: Ocean, Air, Rail, Bulk, FTL and LTL

  • Transportation spend, volume of cargo shipments and spend/shipment
  • Top transportation providers in spend and volume.
  • Delivery on time by transportation vendor and by mode
  • Transportation cost to revenue over time
  • Transportation costs to profit over time
  • Freight optimization with Artificial Intelligence Process Platform
Transportation Management System
Lead logistics provider
Supply chain visibility platform

Supply Chain Visibility Integration and Visibility for Port, Freight Forwarder, Movement and Status

  • Visibility of geo-position of your freight- near real-time
  • Visibility of various legs associated with your shipments to avoid rollovers
  • Visibility by shipment, mode, carrier, origin or destination
  • Proactive smart alerts of delays and/or milestone achievements- Internal
  • Option to share with customer or not
  • Optimization with Artificial Intelligence Process Platform

Lead 4PL Logistics Provider Professional Services Providing logistics and supply chain solutions as a third-party intermediary and the necessary expertise and resources to provide such services for and on behalf of Customer

  • Provide the management of international exports and domestic freight movement of goods and consolidation center matters
  • Management of Bookings Services for Ocean, Air, Rail and Trucking
  • Managed Invoicing, Audit and Pay Services processing
  • Managed Exception Handling, Rate Maintenance and Ensuring Carrier-billing Compliance, with customer A/P team engagement
  • Operational logistics support to book ocean and drayage shipments; perform AES filings; coordinate with origin to ensure timely movement of goods; track, trace and update ETD and ETA dates as required

TMS with Supply Chain Visibility: When Transportation Agility Matters

TMSfirst Provides You a Single solution from Systems Integration to Booking to Shipment Visibility to Order Management through AI-driven Analytics.

Systems Integration

Systems Integration

Creating a Trusted Singular View of Multiple Data Sources

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TMS Planning

TMS Planning

Optimized Multi-mode Shipments

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Contact pricing

Contact pricing

Leverage Your Existing Contract Pricing

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Spot market

Spot market

Rate Shop Today’s Market for Best Rates and Availability

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Shipping Booking Plan

Shipping Booking Plan

Check Availability and Make Shipping Bookings

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Transport Document

Transport Document

Ensure Your Legal eDocumentation is in Order

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Partner Visibility

Partner Visibility

Seamless Visibility to Your Active Shipments

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TMS Shipping Tracking

TMS Shipping Tracking

Stay Informed Shipment Status Changes

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TMS Order Management

TMS Order Management

Control Live Orders for Optimal Performance

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ETA Management

ETA Management

Stay in Control and Informed on ETA’s and Changes

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Drayage Management

Drayage Management

Ensure Your Drayage Plans are Optimized

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Demurrage & Detention Management

Demurrage & Detention Management

Ensure Contract Terms are Supported

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Visualization of Shipments

Visualization of Shipments

See Your Shipments Actual Physical Location

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Supply Chain KPI Dashboard

Supply Chain KPI Dashboard

Use AI-driven Analytics in Action

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Milestone updates

Milestone updates

Focus Your Expediting on the 5% Exceptions

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ASN, POD and Compliance

ASN, POD and Compliance

Automated Digital Purchasing Performance

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Freight Invoice Processing

Freight Invoice Processing

Stay With Contract Terms and Ensure Proper Costs

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Freight Rate Management

Freight Rate Management

Ensure Your Rates are Up to date

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Supplier Performance Management Software

Supplier Performance Management Software

Measure Your Supplier SLA Results

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Expert Analytics

Expert Analytics

Providing Management with Decision Grade Data

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Dare to Compare

TMSfirst provides a transportation management system (TMS system) and a stand-alone AI-Driven In-Transit Inventory Management Supply Chain Visibility that helps global businesses reduce transportation costs often by 12% to 25% and it’s users have almost 20 million goods movements per day. The TMSfirst solution has been designed and developed by an experienced team whose previous solutions generated over $1 billion in TMS and visibility software sales. We also provide managed booking services, as well as audit, invoicing and pay services. Dare to Compare.

TMS Capabilities summaryTMS First
Order and package management
Multimodal planning with carrier and route selections and order dispatch
Shipment consolidation and deconsolidation
Planning and exception management dashboards
Drayage management and port visibility with demurrage controls
Supply chain visibility capabilities summaryTMS First
Global multimodal coverage & model stitching
Automated ETA updates with AI enabled workflows
Centralized exception management
Global and regional map view tracking and visibility
Unified shipment and order insights

TMSfirst is for thought-leading global businesses who are dissatisfied with traditional transportation management solution’s high acquisition costs, complex implementations, as well as their high annual operating and maintenance costs. Customers select TMSfirst when transportation agility matters. Dare to Compare.

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