Infor SCM (Supply Chain Management) > Transportation and Logistics > Transportation Planning
Optimized planning for freight consolidation, transportation mode, and carrier selection.
More than ever before, transportation logisitics management plays a pivotal role in supporting the velocity at which business is conducted. And organizations increasingly have come to realize that without essential competencies for proper planning and consolidation, customer service levels and profits will be compromised.
Transportation Planning is a tactical tool aimed at selecting the best modes of transportation and carriers to fulfill transportation requirements, while leveraging savings opportunities through consolidation. It generates intelligent supply chain management and plans and reduces shipping costs in everything from mode and carrier selection and shipment consolidation to vehicle routing and scheduling.
Transportation Planning helps companies like yours:
- Lower transportation costs
- Enhance service levels
- Decrease cycle time
- Increase profits from bidding and backhaul
With Infor’s transportation planning and transportation fleet management capabilities, you can determine the most cost-effective way to meet service commitments by creating optimal transportation plans for common carriers and/or private fleets. You can analyze orders to be shipped based on origin and destination locations, consolidate orders into loads, and determine the best way to move those loads based on constraints such as delivery dates and costs. Optimal daily or multi-period transportation plans and schedules are offered, as is support for what-if, tactical transportation planning, including the best fleet design and carrier capacity.
