Logistics professionals today are taking measured steps, being aware of the fact that their functions, tactics, and strategies have a direct impact on their organization and trading partners. At the same time, meeting the growing customer expectations followed by on-time delivery has become a top priority for logistics managers. “To address these issues, the solutions need to be broad enough to manage the supply chain and deep enough to effectively control and solve areas of weakness,” says Alan Miller, President, TransportGistics. Founded in 2001, TransportGistics is in full bloom addressing the inefficiencies of transportation management, simplifying the operations, and making transportation information immediately visible to all the involved parties. “Our easy-to-use cloud solutions not only improve communications and increase productivity, but also avoid excessive logistics costs,” adds Miller.

Miller strongly believes that the answers to most challenges reside in a “simpler is better” approach. Thereby, he and his team have designed user friendly solutions that are aimed at improving operations, while controlling complex transportation management and logistics functions of the supply chain. The inherent flexibility of the company’s solutions provides organizations the ability to elevate their objectives according to their schedules without needing to invest in an entirely new system.

“Currently, companies face difficulty in choosing the right technology solutions,” points out Miller. In order to realize savings, either the Transportation Management System (TMS) must be adapted to the company’s processes or the processes should be harmonized to meet the TMS workflow.In such a scenario, TransportGistics’ approach and recommendation is for an Incremental TMS Acquisition that allows firms to deploy a series of solutions in a consecutive manner, while driving a shorter run up to ROI. Changing a plan is much easier than changing in-place systems and processes, thereby accelerating savings, decelerating expenditures, and reducing the impact on existing macro-operations with a greater degree of flexibility.

On the other side, shippers and consignees are in a day-to-day struggle to manage the costs of moving goods through the supply chain, since even a single shipment involves considerable inter-company and intra-company transactions and communications.