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Transportation Management
| Transportation Management Issues and Challenges |
| Transporting goods and merchandise from one point to another requires a carefully coordinated approach, especially since global logistics costs far outpace those of a domestic move. According to Aberdeen Research, international shipments cost twice as much, take five times as long and have five times more variability than domestic shipments. Consequently, a 1% improvement in international supply chain efficiencies will yield significantly higher financial returns than a 1% improvement in domestic supply chain efficiencies. Amber Road's Transportation Management solution provides a range of transportation management and logistics capabilities for importers, exporters and third party logistics providers to capture these improvements.
Core to our transportation management offering is our in-house publishing team. This team gathers and codifies publicly-available international carrier rates within our software. This same team also translates and codifies shipper-specific carrier contracts, including the detailed logic used to calculate accessorial charges on an international move. Having all this information codified within the Amber Road transportation management system enables organizations to easily evaluate different freight options on international moves, choose the lowest cost option given a detailed picture of all baseline and accessorial charges, and actually book the load with the carrier of choice. Once the shipment is tendered and executed, the Amber Road Transportation Management solution performs freight audit, comparing the invoice received from the carrier with the shipper's transportation contract. The solution then identifies discrepancies, which the shipper can take up with the carrier, armed with the necessary details. Amber Road's Transportation Management solution also includes performance management analytics and reports to enable organizations to evaluate carriers across a variety of metrics such as on-time delivery, invoicing accuracy, tender acceptance times, etc. |
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