Transportation Management System (TMS) is Now Live!
The Logistics Directorate launched an industry-leading transportation management system that gives managers better control over costs of inbound shipments from suppliers and tracking of goods from distribution centers to stores.
The Oracle Transportation Management system will manage free on board (FOB) origin freight, beginning with inbound planning, execution/freight payable and cost allocation. The initial launch, which occurred Oct. 13, included two vendors and four carriers. The directorate will bring on more vendors and carriers this year, with the project’s first phase expected to be fully implemented by next summer.
“The inbound process is only the beginning of the project.”
—Chief Logistics Officer Karen Stack
“With the implementation of phase 1, the Exchange now has the ability to strengthen the cost control of inbound transportation from suppliers and provide improved visibility across the organization regarding the status of goods moving inbound to distribution centers or directly to stores,” said Chief Logistics Officer Karen Stack.
Transportation orders will be optimized to meet delivery requirements at the lowest cost. Communication with carriers will be enabled, reducing the effort required to manage in-transit shipments via event management.
A project team from the Logistics Directorate worked with Team Oracle, the directorate’s vendor, to implement the system.
The system also will allow the Exchange a better way to validate and audit freight invoices and speed up the payment for logistics services.
“The inbound process is only the beginning of the project,” Stack said.
These next phases, which will roll out in late 2018, concentrate on outbound shipments at the West Coast DC in California for CONUS and Germany’s Germersheim DC for OCONUS.
