The 3PLink® Transportation Management System gives you powerful, real-time tools and features to improve your transportation execution with lower costs, higher productivity, and higher levels of customer service and responsiveness. No matter how simple or complex your freight requirements, you’ll find 3PLink® TMS powerful to suit your needs right out of the box.
Key Benefits:
- Fully integrated with 3PLink® WMS for Public Warehouses.
- Easy to configure for unlimited types of transportation logistics scenarios.
- Full activity-based costing built-in.
- Flexible rate setup and native rating engine automates freight charges, assessorials, and fuel surcharges.
- Configurable interfaces by user speeds productivity and learning for faster implementation
- Integrated interfaces for popular GPS and mileage/mapping utilities to accurately track the status and location of drivers, equipment and freight using Blackberry and Windows Mobile 5 devices.
- Interface for direct, real-time wireless communications for dispatching and deployment of driver trip plans improves driver productivity and morale.
Powerful to manage...
...multiple freight types:
• Truckload (TL) • Less than Truckload (LTL) • Bulk • Parcel • Container
...multiple transportation modes:
• Truck • Rail • Air • Ocean
...multiple services:
• Cross‐dock • Container Freight Station • Pickup & Delivery • Cartage
3PLink® TMS can operate every facet of your transportation service and keep you on the cutting edge of technology:
- Freight Billing and Dispatch
- Track performance based on appointments, transit times, loading and unloading times.
- Dedicated or mixed loads.
- Track containers from pick-up to delivery and return, incl. demurrage and detention charges
- Split probills into legs
- Complete preceding legs and send subsequent legs for dispatch
- Automatic updates to trucks, drivers, trailers and freight locations
- Proportionately allocate revenue to all freight movements
- Flexible Contract setup based on customer or carrier.
- Easy to broker loads to outside carriers.
- Built-in rating engine including multiple charge types (weight, pieces, volume, value, mileage).
- Set up multiple rate tariffs for weight-distance, weight-distance-zone, zone-weight, zone-weightclass, point-to-point by customer and freight type
- Flexible Assessorial calculations.
- Multiple fuel surcharge types.
- Small parcel processing.
- Estimate costs based on contracts with 3rd-party carriers.
- Multi-modal (truck, air, rail, ocean).
- Fully integrated with 3PLink® WMS and Dynamics NAV Accounting
- Interface with popular GPS and mileage/mapping utilities to accurately track the status and location of drivers, equipment and freight using Blackberry and Windows Mobile 5 devices.
- Interface for direct, real-time wireless communications for dispatching and deployment of driver trip plans improves driver productivity and morale.
- Settlements (Driver/Carrier)
- Estimate costs for outside carriers and owner-operators.
- Compare cost estimates with actual carrier invoices.
- Analyze revenue and costs for each shipment.
- Routing
- Customizable carrier preference rules.
- Customizable routing rules to manage the flow of freight through cross-docks or warehouses.
- Customizable routes for peddle runs.
- Reduce operating costs while increasing profit-per-mile
- Route trips by most profitable/efficient pickups and deliveries
- Reduce empty miles thereby maximizing resource utilization
- Cross-Docking
- Flexible load building capability.
- Deconsolidate and consolidate freight as it moves through your cross-docks or warehouses.
- Container Freight Station
- Comprehensive functionality to manage Container Freight Station operations...
- Supports multiple BOL’s per container.
- Master BOLs.
- Manages full or partial stripping/stuffing of containers.
- Load outs.
- Cross-docking.
- Consolidation.
- Segregation.
- Palletizing/unitizing.
- Container demurrage.
- and other critical container freight station functions.
- EDI (electronic data interchange)
- Benefits:
- Eliminates manual reentry of orders.
- Generate appropriate confirmation notifications and transmit to customers.
- Mapping utility is included to configure data templates to your customer specifications thereby reducing mapping costs.
- Communication methods:
- Email
- FTP
- VAN (value added network)
- AS2
- Formats can be utilizing:
- Automatically create and email PDF’s of shipment documents and other reports:
- Preselect customers, consignees, documents and conditions triggering automatic email.
- Designate as many email recipients for each document or condition as desired.
- Works in the background automatically; no operator intervention required.
- Enable your transportation clients to view shipments, status and activity online:
- Real-time, secure access available 24/7
- Secure login with ID and password
- Login ID limits access to only appropriate records, reports and functions, customizable by client
- Designer and Data Entry option enables individual Client configurable screen displays, custom queries and reports, and secure data/order entry online via web.
- Business Intelligence and Reporting
- With direct access to real-time, business-critical information, web access and visibility, and a wide range of analytical and reporting tools, you can manage your operations, your resources and your personnel more effectively and be more responsive to your customers’ changing needs and opportunities.
