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Removing complexity and variability from growing global transportation networks is critical to achieving a top-performing Supply Chain. By successfully managing and controlling complex networks, you create a distinct cost advantage over your competition while also strengthening your logistics resiliency and efficiency. 
The benefits of Transportation Management Solutions (TMS) are well documented. Companies have successfully decreased costs associated with transportation by 10% to 25% through shipment planning, freight audit and settlement solutions and end-to-end shipment visibility. However, the benefits of a TMS often go unrealized. Large up-front costs, complex implementations, difficulties with partner integration, and ongoing maintenance costs conspire to delay the ROI for global TMS projects.
Transportation is by its very nature a collaborative process, relying on a multi-party, multi-enterprise, geographically-dispersed network of suppliers, carriers and customers. Managing data and process integration across the network can be particularly challenging.
Elemica’s SmartLink Logistics Management Suite has grown in recent years to include several point solutions that enable collaboration between our customers and their logistics trading partners. The ‘Extra Cost Capture’ feature of our Road Transport solution is one example – shippers and carriers can collaborate on a shipment’s accessorial charges in real time – so that by the time the carrier generates a freight invoice, the charges are well-understood and approved. With our SmartLink Logistics applications, Elemica has created a new class of logistics solutions that are enabled by our QuickLink™ trading partner network.
The entire logistics order lifecycle encompasses everything from the point an order is requested through all of the required steps to get that order to its destination, and the financial elements needed to pay the service providers and establish contracted rates with them. This execution of the entire logistics order lifecycle is complex – global, multi-mode, many partners involved and is becoming even more so as companies are trying different strategies for improving their costs and performance.
As your logistics requirements mature, so have your needs for a comprehensive, global transportation management system. As a natural extension to Elemica’s ‘Order to Invoice’ capabilities, Elemica Transportation Management brings together all the elements to provide you with a central point of control for all transportation activities throughout the supply chain. We enable the complete process of order-to-shipment planning, booking, execution and settlement underpinned by collaboration technology that is unparalleled in the industry.
If you are already transacting business through our QuickLink network and SmartLink solutions, the value proposition is even stronger. Elemica Transportation Management completes the portfolio of solutions for logistics management. Investing in a top-performing TMS is key – but without connectivity to your logistics network, the promises of TMS go undelivered.
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