Our customized and innovative transport event management solution is Trade Manager. As the name implies, it is a Transportation Management Solution (TMS) that provides flexible shipment management and full operational features from multiple origins to multiple destinations on the same work flow platform. We supply standard "templates" for each unique operational event sequence, which includes consolidation, transshipment or reconsolidation, and destination milestones. Information flows in a collaborative fashion with each station (Origin, Gateway and Destination) adding incremental data to the current shipment data pool. This significantly reduces the redundant key-stroking and filing inherent with manual processes that are employed by many non-integrated NVOCCs and freight forwarders.
Trade Manager integrates the best parts of both consolidation-management and transportation-management systems by providing visibility to what is in the container, down to the purchase order (PO) and stock keeping unit (SKU) detail. This includes visibility to container and shipment transport events, along a customer's supply chain, which is provided by transportation management systems. Through a single application, Trade Manager, logistics providers can deliver inventory-in-transit visibility to their customers as well as manage transportation events from origin to destination.
Trade Manager is a multi-layered solution that facilitates and harmonizes global supply chains by synchronizing and managing operational events along the supply chain in a collaborative manner designed to inform and collaborate with all supply chain participants.
For a specific shipment, Trade Manager creates an operational event sequence based on templates that model the transport of the shipment. Some event sequences are more complex than others. Simple port-to-port transport will have the fewest number of operational events, while multi-port relay shipments, or shipments with inland movements, will be more complex. Trade Manager recognizes the transport required and sets up the operational event sequence for the specific shipment. Each operational event sequence specifies the event location, the responsible party, the vendor, vendor reference number, scheduled date and actual date. Thus, the operational event sequence specifies the planned chain-of-custody for each shipment, keeping track of the responsible party and allowing them to manage the event by keeping track of the actual date relative to the scheduled date.
Trade Manager, via EDI, as well as through direct entry by vendors, receives direct feeds and input from carriers, truckers, warehousemen and other logistics vendors along the supply chain to assist in managing all of the events along the operational event sequence.
Trade Manager monitors each shipment for the last completed operational event and then measures the next event against the current date and time. If the scheduled date and time of the event has passed, without the actual date and time being updated, Trade Manager will issue an alert to warn the responsible party that further action must be taken to bring the shipment back to the expected schedule.
Trade Manager operational event sequences cover all events from origin to destination for each shipment. This creates collaboration between the responsible parties for each of the events in the sequence resulting in an up-to-date work list for each operations user. Data is never required to be re-keyed but is simply augmented as users hand-off the shipments to subsequent operations users along the event sequence all the way to shipment destination.
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