Transport Management System
Many companies in Australia find they have diverse freight needs across our vast geography, requiring external freight companies supplemented by an internal delivery fleet.
As a company begins to build an internal delivery fleet or contracts a freight provider, its technology requirements become more complex, requiring capabilities that only a Transport Management System can provide.
What is a Transport Management System?
A Transport Management System provides sophisticated management of trucks and covers the start of the journey, the actual journey, and all the freight tracking and notifications that accompany it.
How is a Transport Management System different to a Freight Management System?
A Freight Management System helps companies manage their 3rd party carriers, while a Transport Management System helps companies manage their own fleet.
The gold standard is one system, such as Cario, that can provide both freight management software and transport management software with full integration.
What are the key features of Transport Management Software?
Driver Delivery Runs
Allow your operations team to allocate daily runs to each driver. These runs will appear within the Cario Connect application for each driver.
Driver and Warehouse Checklists
Enable your warehouse and operations teams to manage your contracted drivers to ensure Chain of Responsibility laws are adhered to, such as driver fatigue management and load balancing requirements. This is especially important if you require a flexible workforce for deliveries in peak period.
Driver Tracking and Location-based alerts
Provide your stores, DCs or key customers proactive notification of your predicted delivery times, and any delays anticipated due to traffic etc. Allow your customer service teams at head office to monitor your deliveries by the minute with the live Uber-style tracking screens.
Driver Tracking and Location-based alerts
Provide your stores, DCs or key customers proactive notification of your predicted delivery times, and any delays anticipated due to traffic etc. Allow your customer service teams at head office to monitor your deliveries by the minute with the live Uber-style tracking screens.
Integrate these Transport Management Software capabilities into your ERP or WMS, to ensure this information is available in the systems you already use today. These integrations (link to integration page) can be out of the box, or customised to meet your specific architecture.
Where can I get a Transport Management System?
There are two components to the Cario Connect Transport Management System.
1) Driver Application – this is available on the Google and Apple App stores (insert link to Google and App store). You can use your standard Cario Freight Management System login to access this.
2) Customer Service Live User Tracking – this is part of the Cario Freight Management System, and must be enabled for your account. Please speak to your account manager. Note, this will only work for drivers that have also downloaded the Cario Connect Transport Management System to their phone