A Transport Management System (TMS) is a logistics management platform that utilizes technology to assist businesses in managing the movement of goods. TMS enables businesses to plan, execute, optimize, and manage transportation operations while providing real-time visibility into their operations and bringing transparency. The system helps in seamless inventory management for both incoming and outgoing operations and generates compliance documents on the fly, ensuring adherence to regulations.

Transport Management System by RocketFlow simplifies vehicle transportation operations by automating booking creation for retail and enterprise users, managing a marketplace, ensuring adherence to standard operating procedures, capturing data, and providing real-time reports. The TMS also provides visibility into day-to-day transportation operations, helping businesses ensure compliance, manage documentation, and capture data at each stage of the transport lifecycle, ensuring greater predictability.

Transport Management System by RocketFlow offers a website, a mobile app for drivers/executives, and a web admin portal for supervisors and management teams through an Enterprise SAAS Offering. With a one-click dashboard and real-time reporting, managing end-to-end vehicle transportation operations is much more seamless.

Transportation Management System and modern transportation management solutions provide numerous benefits to businesses, including cost reduction, simplification of supply chain processes, automation of business operations, improved visibility and security, time savings, better compliance, new business insights, improvements in customer service, and the ability to scale the business.

Business benefits of Transport Management System are listed below:

1. Ability to Scale the Business: By meeting and exceeding customer demands for fast, on-time shipments, transportation management solutions help businesses scale their operations and grow their customer base.

2. Improvements in Customer Service: With real-time updates and fewer shipment delays, transportation management solutions lead to improvements in customer service and customer satisfaction.

3. New Business Insights: Transport management solutions provide better reporting, which leads to faster action and process improvement. Businesses can use these insights to optimize their transportation operations.

4. Adherence to Documentation and Compliance: Modern transportation management solutions help businesses comply with documentation and compliance requirements, thereby minimizing penalties and shipment delays.

5. Time Savings: Fewer manual steps lead to fewer delays and faster delivery times. Automation of transportation operations reduces the chances of errors, which saves time and increases productivity.

6. Improved Visibility and Security: Transportation management solutions improve visibility and security, especially during transit. Companies can track their goods, both locally and globally, on a single platform. This ensures that the shipment is secure and reaches its destination on time.

7. Automation of Business Operations: A TMS automates business operations, which results in faster and more accurate billing and documentation. Automation also reduces the chances of errors, which leads to fewer delays and faster delivery times. Automation helps businesses replicate the same customer experience at scale.

8. Simplification of Supply Chain Processes: Transport Management System helps Businesses automate process around procurement, operations, logistics, fulfillment there by helping businesses automate the entire value chain.

9. Cost Reduction: A TMS enables businesses to optimize their transportation operations, which leads to reduced costs for the business and the end customer. With a TMS, companies can choose the most cost-effective carriers, routes, and modes of transportation to deliver their goods.

Business Process Automation

Business Process Automation (commonly referred as BPA) is the automation of repeatable tasks within an Organization. BPA helps accelerate how work is assigned to the right person within an organization, following enterprise defined rules and actions for allocation of the tasks. BPA helps organizations streamline processes such as candidate onboarding, candidate selection, reimbursement processes, lead management system, task management across the business verticals.

How to identify processes suitable for business process automation?

Processes which are repetitive in nature and are done following different business stages and actions performed by stakeholders during execution

The said Process needs to be replicated across the Organization in a consistent manner

The said Process should be verifiable for similar outcomes every time it is run thereby ensuring consistency in process execution

The Process should be measurable across every stage of execution wrt time taken, outputs each business stage produces

The end goal of a business process automation is to ensure transparency, consistency and making the process measurable, thereby improving the overall operational efficiency.

Rocketflow is a business process management platform well suited for Small, Medium and Large Enterprises. Rocketflow helps you automate your business processes and map the business processes within Rocketflow platform for efficient execution. Rocketflow is well suited for organizations having less exposure to technology as it comes with off the shelf automation for commonly used business processes. Enterprises can start using the platform offerings in a monthly Cloud SAAS Subscription Model accessing the processes through Mobile Apps (Android and iOS) or Web Admin Portal.

Few Flows that are automated using Rocketflow are listed below:

Order and Booking Management

Procurement and Production Planning

Sales and Business Leads Management

Task Management

HR Related Processes for Candidate Onboarding, Exit, Selection, Reimbursements