How to Leverage a Logistics Control Tower

Transportation Management Systems

Transportation Management Systems (TMS) have been around for more than 25 years, but as globalization, outsourcing and specialization have increased, more complex opportunities to optimize logistics performance and reduce costs are emerging.

Shippers are relying heavily on logistics solutions as well as their 3/4PL partners to increase competitiveness, attain a global view of supply network activity, and pursue complex opportunities to maximize logistics performance and efficiencies.

Digital Supply & Logistics Network Platform

One Network’s Logistics Solution Suite has industry-proven success across manufacturing, retail, CPG, food service, automotive, healthcare, pharmaceutical, high tech, aerospace, logistics, and government sectors while empowering logistics partners to better serve their customers.

Shippers and 3PL’s are using the One Network Logistics Solution, to rapidly achieve accurate real-time information, optimization, and collaboration across a diverse set of trading partners and their systems. One Network optimizes, automates and tracks execution of the entire inbound and outbound logistics lifecycle, from order to delivery, for a global, multi-modal network with thousands of transportation providers.

To enhance the customer-driven business network, the One Network platform brings unprecedented resiliency, efficiencies, and shared business benefits for the entire Logistics network of shippers, 3PL’s, carriers, and service providers.

Key Operational Benefits

• A comprehensive supply chain and logistics model that represents all parties, the network and processes from planning through execution delivers real-time management of all supply chain activities
• The ability to identify in real-time issues impacting performance and resolve quickly
• Advanced analytics, reporting & insight leveraging a single version of the truth (SVOT) drive improved carrier, supplier, and personnel performance
• Ability to mitigate knock-on effects
• Detailed tracking of transactional and resolution history for continuous improvement
• Detailed tracking and tracing of products ensures promises and commitments are met
• Support carrier loyalty in a time of driver shortages and carrier rate volatility
• 3PLs can unlock new sources of revenue across your customer base by offering new services and levels of visibility

Key Financial Benefits

• 30-50% reduction in premium freight costs across auto-industrial segments
• 10-40% reduction in overall annual transportation costs across all industry segments
• 2-10% increase in equipment utilization across all industry segments
• 10-30% inventory reduction across healthcare, CPG, retail and auto-industrial segments
• 12-50% reduction in manual planning, scheduling and execution management overhead
• 1-8% improvement in inbound delivery performance and outbound customer service levels

Complete Visibility and Control is Within Reach

One Network’s Multi-Party Logistics Control Tower offers the foundational capabilities to manage this complexity, ensure compliance, respond to problems, optimize, and automate complex cross-company workflows like never before.