Introducing TMS Essentials: Core transportation execution capabilities, built on trusted data
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Most companies that run high-stakes, complex, multi-party supply chain ecosystems have invested in some type of transportation management system, whether large enterprise platforms, specialized TMS solutions, or homegrown, internally built systems. These platforms play an important role in transportation planning, execution, and management.
However, even with these investments, important gaps remain. These gaps are driven by siloed partners, critical data that lives outside the TMS platform, and/or a lack of trust and data sharing due to limited frameworks for protecting data privacy, ownership and control.
For many supply chain leaders, the persistence of these gaps comes as a surprise, given the expectations often placed on modern TMS platforms. Ongoing connectivity and collaboration gaps lead to delays, disputes, or higher costs, and create friction between partners.
At Vinturas, we’re focused on closing the connectivity and collaboration gaps by solving the root causes of disconnects preventing ecosystems from operating at peak performance.
The Vinturas Interoperable Network (VIN) is uniquely designed to securely connect and align partners and systems around shared, trusted data, so everyone is working from the same information. VIN provides the privacy, governance, and control, to ensure data security for all participants. And it provides the independent, neutral data layer connecting existing systems – meaning, there is no need to replace them. Instead, VIN fundamentally enhances their value.
With that trusted data foundation in place, ecosystems can then drive meaningful operational improvements to transportation management and execution workflows. This is where the newest module in the Vinturas portfolio comes in.
Today, we’re introducing Vinturas TMS Essentials, a lightweight transportation execution solution that delivers operational value leveraging this trusted data foundation.
Vinturas TMS Essentials provides core, essential transportation execution capabilities for all partners in the ecosystem whether they are extending existing transportation investments or digitizing transportation processes for the first time.
Filling the gaps between systems, without replacing them
TMS Essentials focuses on practical transportation execution capabilities, including:
• Booking management and execution
• Forecasting and capacity management
These capabilities help partners in the ecosystem execute transportation workflows more effectively through shared, trusted data across partners.
Rather than replacing existing transportation management systems, TMS Essentials complements existing technology investments by addressing coordination and execution gaps that persist even with these systems and tools in place.
Delivering operational improvements
TMS Essentials delivers value to all participants in the ecosystem, not just one or a few.
OEMs and BCO shippers can extend transportation execution capabilities beyond their enterprise systems, improving coordination across suppliers, logistics providers, and other partners.
• Improved transportation coordination across trading partners
• Greater visibility beyond the enterprise boundary
• Reduced manual communication and follow-up
• Better forecasting and capacity alignment
• Faster onboarding of ecosystem participants
• Operational improvements without large-scale system replacement projects
Suppliers, logistics providers, and ecosystem partners can participate more effectively in connected, collaborative supply chains, without needing a heavy-duty TMS platform or requiring large-scale TMS investments.
• Lightweight transportation execution capabilities
• Improved visibility into customer and partner requirements
• Better coordination of bookings and capacity
• Reduced reliance on email, spreadsheets, and manual processes
• Faster response to transportation changes and exceptions
• Access to shared, trusted operational information
When transportation participants operate from trusted information across workflows, the entire ecosystem benefits.
Built on the secure, neutral VIN foundation
As with all aspects of high-stakes, complex, multi-party supply chain operations, transportation execution depends on timely, accurate, and trusted information. But disconnects and siloes, lack of trust and control, and security concerns persist.
VIN provides the trusted layer to close these gaps. With VIN as the foundation, trusted information becomes actionable operational workflows in all aspects of supply chain operations from transportation execution to damage and claims to invoicing and billing.
With TMS Essentials, VIN enables all partners in the ecosystem to share transportation requirements, operational events, forecasts, capacity information, and other critical data while maintaining security, governance, and control.
Rather than introducing another standalone TMS platform or requiring partners to replace existing systems and tools, TMS Essentials fills gaps in transportation execution through a shared trusted data layer provided by VIN.
As supply chains become increasingly connected, partners need solutions that extend beyond the boundaries of individual systems, to optimize ecosystems rather than siloes.
TMS Essentials, built on the trusted data foundation of VIN, enables supply chains to drive meaningful operational improvements across the entire ecosystem.
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