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Equip Your Business for the Future With the Right Transportation Management System

Narrow your TMS search and find a solution that fits your needs.

  • Transportation and logistics companies struggle to leave behind their legacy systems and upgrade to a more flexible, scalable transportation management system (TMS).
  • Companies have fragmented software solutions and need a unified network of solutions to help align the organization and meet business goals.
  • The evolving marketplace makes it challenging to get a complete picture of vendors and available solutions.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

Global supply chains continue to evolve, creating complex challenges to navigate for transportation companies. To remain a competitive force within the industry, companies must find and adopt solutions that fit their use case to ensure sustainable growth and continued success.

Impact and Result

This buyers guide is intended to assist organizations in:

  • Analyzing the TMS market evolutions to identify key innovations.
  • Evaluating the business’ current state to understand organizational objectives and align goals with the new TMS.
  • Creating criteria, shortlisting vendors, scoring options, and choosing your next solution confidently.

Equip Your Business for the Future With the Right Transportation Management System Research & Tools

1. Equip Your Business for the Future With the Right Transportation Management System Deck – Narrow your TMS search and find a solution that fits your needs.

A comprehensive strategy to find a solution that will fit your exact business case needs. The TMS landscape is large, and no solution is one size fits all. Simplify your evaluation process and pick a vendor that can support your business.

2. TMS Evaluation and Scoring Tool – Evaluate vendors to find the one most suitable for your company.

This Excel tool assesses evaluation criteria and mathematically proves which vendor is going to provide your organization with the most value. Use this preliminary tool to guide your discussions with vendors on final decisions.

3. TMS Scoping Activity Workbook – Assess key challenges your company faces and how a new TMS will combat them.

Guide discussions and compile results in an organized format for communication purposes. Validate the need for a new solution and prove the worth of a new system.

4. Transportation and Logistics Capability Map Workbook – Identify your company’s capability map and understand the current information assessment.

A deep dive into your company at a high level to understand where your current shortcomings are in terms of data readiness and TMS support. Understand where your company needs to focus on improving through a new software solution.

Narrow your TMS search and find a solution that fits your needs.

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Guided Implementation 1: Identify Key Market Trends
  • Call 1: Scope objectives for the new TMS and discuss challenges the company is facing.
  • Call 2: Understand the market.

Guided Implementation 2: Define Business Requirements
  • Call 1: Identify business goals and align objectives.
  • Call 2: Assess the current and target states of information in your organization.
  • Call 3: Identify the relationship between the current state and expected gains.
  • Call 4: Identify key features that mend the gaps.

Guided Implementation 3: Identify Assessment Criteria and Assess Solutions
  • Call 1: Determine evaluation criteria.
  • Call 2: Score and evaluate solutions.
  • Call 3: Identify next steps.

Author

Michael Adams

Contributors

  • Corey Goux, CIO, Mesilla Valley Transportation
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