Transportation Solutions Built on Oracle Transportation Management Enterprise Solutions
Optimizing transportation operations and ensuring improved customer service Today s complex and challenging business conditions demand that logistics service providers (LSPs) and shippers perform at near perfect levels and are responsive to the changing customer needs while reducing transportation costs. Legacy Transport Management systems (TMS) are loosely integrated with other core systems and seriously lack flexibility and scalability required in this dynamic environment. This has forced logistics organizations to replace their legacy and older versions of TMS systems with newer versions of best in class TMS solutions like Oracle Transport Management (OTM). To help in your transformation, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) offers solutions based on Oracle Transport Management (OTM) by leveraging our rich experience in OTM implementations and strong logistics domain understanding. With a rich pool of trained technology consultants in OTM, we can provide support to your operational OTM system and help you migrate or upgrade to newer versions of OTM. Our solutions follow rapid implementation methodology and enable you to realize the benefits of OTM early and at a lower cost.
Overview With worldwide networks of business partners, transportation industry has become more complex and logistics service providers are expanding their operations to meet the demands of the global logistics supply chain. Rising transportation costs and the shrinking margins with multiple modes of transportations force the shippers and logistics service providers to look for ways to optimally plan transportation and increase efficiency. They need complete visibility into transportation events in real time to monitor, control and respond appropriately to the transportation events. Many logistics providers use legacy systems as operational systems and the business functions such as finance, HR and supply chain management are supported by Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) packages from Oracle and SAP. These ERP packages need to extend to or integrate with standard packaged transportation management solution for accurate logistics visibility and tracking. OTM provides the standard integration with Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) and also with other ERP products.
Our offerings To help you in your transition to OTM 6.x solutions, TCS has developed a set of offerings based on OTM to meet the needs of single-mode business, complex multimode business, and global multi-business enterprises. These offerings can help you streamline transportation planning, execution, freight payments, and business process automation. By configuring complex multi leg, multi modal, cross dock and transhipments operations we can help you optimize the movement of goods and thereby reduce transportation costs. By integrating your core business processes with logistics processes, our solutions enhance visibility of orders and ability to track shipment status closely, thus facilitating monitoring and planning. Our offerings can help you bring accountability in your operations and also help you uncover hidden costs and arrest revenue leakages. Our solutions follow rapid implementation approach by leveraging solution accelerators such as pre-built processes on OTM, conversion scripts, data templates, saved queries, custom screens, standard reports, and solution documents as well as our reusable assets, pre-configured business scenarios and custom solutions. TCS has also developed tools that reduce manual work, thereby bringing efficiency. MassUpload, a tool which is part of the solution bundle, creates orders in OTM directly by taking data from Excel or Comma-Separated Values (CSV) thus reducing the cycle-time for order entry by the end users. Excel to CSV conversion utility is used to upload master data into OTM, reduces the manual work of creating the CSV files from Excel files and helps you achieve complete automation. ESwift tool provides hybrid test automation framework and is designed for testing of business scenarios. Our offerings include: Transportation Basic Solutions: Basic solutions are built on OTM 6.x standalone with custom integrations with other systems addressing the needs of inbound and outbound logistics. The basic solution covers rate and route, transportation orders, planning and execution, point-to-point and multi-modal logistics. Transportation Advanced Solutions: Advanced solutions are offered with pre-built integrations of OTM 6.x with Oracle EBS or other ERP Systems. The Advanced Solutions cover rate and route management, quote management, transportation orders, planning and execution, multi-mode and multi-leg itineraries, hubbing, cross docking, and freight billing and settlement. These also include solutions for fleet management, continuous moves, cooperative routing, appointment scheduling and global trade management (GTM) for global trade compliance. Support Services: TCS provides a wide variety of support services which include Application and Infrastructure support for standalone OTM and OTM+ EBS solutions. System Integrations: TCS is a renowned system integrator with global presence and strong delivery capabilities. We can help you seamlessly integrate OTM with Oracle EBS or other ERP platforms and third party applications. Upgrade Solutions: Smooth upgrade to 6.x versions from older versions of OTM (G-log).
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Benefits Our offerings on OTM automate your workflow and logistics management and ensure systematic enforcement of business rules, multi-modal planning and optimization. We can simplify your systems and support your core businesses and decision-making to bring you multiple benefits such as: Increased visibility Our custom solutions maximize your visibility of transportation events, enabling transparency and greater insights into product movement and overall performance. This visibility allows you to continuously monitor and control your logistics processes more effectively. Fast deployment and savings in implementation costs By following rapid implementation approach, our offerings accelerate the OTM deployment process significantly by utilizing solution accelerators such as pre-built processes on OTM, conversion scripts, data templates, saved queries, custom screens, standard reports, and solution documents. This enables you to reap the benefits of OTM faster at a relatively lower cost of ownership. Improved collaboration and greater flexibility Our offerings ensure greater collaboration with suppliers, carriers, and third parties to create an optimal transportation process. They enable a smooth integration of OTM with other core functions like HR, finance etc. supported by ERP packages like Oracle EBS or SAP. These help in smooth claims settlement and dispute resolutions; build transparency and greater flexibility. Improved efficiency In addition to the efficiency improvements brought by OTM, our offerings bring in productivity gains and efficiency by using pre-built business monitors, Transportation Intelligence reports and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that focus on continuous improvement.
The TCS Advantage At TCS, we leverage our global experience in the OTM implementations and in logistic industry domain to develop offerings that will help you achieve your business goals. Our technical edge is highlighted by our investments in Oracle technologies such as Fusion Middleware and database, which help in providing comprehensive solutions encompassing all layers of the stack. We support the engagements with our: Best-in-class solutions - Transportation solutions on OTM are built with best-in-class business practices and process knowledge gained from several implementations of OTM systems and ERP products like Oracle ebs. Logistics domain experience We have a dedicated business vertical for travel and transportation industries, with a large pool of Subject Matter Experts in the logistics domain. They bring extensive experience in business consulting and logistics process re-engineering. Vast experience in OTM and ERP product implementation TCS has product experience on OTM and has delivered complex engagements. TCS is a Diamond Partner of Oracle solutions and also has alliances with other ERP platform vendors. TCS has an established Enterprise Solutions Centre of Excellence (Entsol CoE) that focuses on developing offerings to address ERP related needs of our customers. Tools and methodologies - Our OTM Solution Center provides methodologies and assets that comply with our Technology Maturity Model. We bring in our proprietary tools like MassUpload, ESwift etc., frameworks and artifacts that can act as solution accelerators to enable rapid implementation. OTM Lab TCS has established a dedicated OTM Lab (OTM 6.x) that develops Proof of Concepts (POC), builds solution accelerators, and focuses on the latest trends in this domain to deliver solutions catering to your specific needs.
How we helped our clients A leading North American packaged food products company with over $10 billion in revenues was facing serious shortcomings with their legacy systems that lacked scalability, and analytical reporting. Their disparate systems worked in silos for each mode of transportation and limited the organization s ability for holistic planning. Further, there was a lack of real time process integration between the core business critical applications for Order Management, Logistics Operations and Financial systems. TCS helped them implement OTM 6.1, integrated it with SAP R3 ERP platform. TCS implemented the core OTM, FTI and Co-operative routing module and used the TCS proprietary ESwift tool for functional testing. These improved the visibility into logistics execution and enabled centralized planning and management of multi-modal transportation. Process automation and real time integration improved process efficiency. Carrier performance was monitored using FTIs reports and the analytical reports in combination with operational dashboards enabled real time decision making. Contact To know more about TCS Transportation Solutions on OTM, contact oracle.practice@tcs.com About Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization that delivers real results to global business, ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match. TCS offers a consulting-led, integrated portfolio of IT and IT-enabled, infrastructure, engineering TM and assurance services. This is delivered through its unique Global Network Delivery Model, recognized as the benchmark of excellence in software development. A part of the Tata Group, India s largest industrial conglomerate, TCS has a global footprint and is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange in India. For more information, visit us at www.tcs.com IT Services Business Solutions Outsourcing All content / information present here is the exclusive property of Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS). The content / information contained here is correct at the time of publishing. No material from here may be copied, modified, reproduced, republished, uploaded, transmitted, posted or distributed in any form without prior written permission from TCS. Unauthorized use of the content / information appearing here may violate copyright, trademark and other applicable laws, and could result in criminal or civil penalties. Copyright 2012 Tata Consultancy Services Limited TCS Design Services I P I 08 I 12