How a Transportation Management System Benefits Any Size Business That Moves Freight

A Transportation Management System (TMS) helps companies move freight from point of origin to final destination in the most efficient and cost-effective manner.

According to Inbound Logistics magazine, “most Tier 1 shippers - those that spend $100 million+ annually on freight - already use TMS solutions.”

These companies say that a TMS contributes to critical business drivers, such as complexity, scale, customer experience and cost savings.*

Smaller firms still use manual approaches to manage their freight, relying on in-house expertise using spreadsheets, fax, phone and email, often resulting in excess admin time, errors and duplicated efforts.

However, with globalization and the growth of e-commerce opening up new markets and reaching customers around the world, the time has come for smaller firms to take advantage of TMS solutions that can bring better customer service, lower freight spend, improve performance and more.

To get up and running quickly, small to medium-sized businesses can adopt cloud-based TMS solutions - getting rates, booking and tracking shipments and communicating with carriers and shippers in real-time - all on a single platform.

Because of the cloud, these systems offer a much lower total cost of ownership, are simpler to implement and require no internal IT support.

Using a TMS, compared to manual approaches, can help your business to:

Optimize and consolidate shipments
Improve service levels, giving customers a great first impression
Save on freight costs
Lower admin costs and reduce errors
Access a large carrier pool
Address all shipping options and modes, all on one platform
Monitor shipments in real-time
Quickly evaluate carrier performance through historical reports
Increase visibility into what is happening within your transport operations
Communicate shipment status to customers
Get much-needed carrier capacity in a tightened market

What if you need more functionality?
Choose a TMS that is flexible enough to grow as your business grows, allowing you to add features in a modular fashion as needed.

Kuebix TMS lets you begin rating, booking and managing your LTL, TL, parcel, rail, ocean and air freight in minutes.

For more complex supply chains, Kuebix can be configured with Premier Applications and Integrations to meet the needs of even the largest enterprise.

Check out our free Kuebix Shipper TMS for unlimited rating, booking and tracking or sign up for a 14-day Trial of the Kuebix Business Pro TMS.

*Primary Research in Evaluating the Business Case and Approval Process for Supply Chain Execution Systems Acquisition – Jim Hendrickson, Professor, Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University.

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