Benefits of the TMS2 system:

Business benefits:

Improved control over transport gives senior management the ability to balance service performance and transport costs. In TMS2’s broad experience, operators are able to both increase service performance and reduce cost through the introduction of our systems. Managers gain clear insight into operational performance and trends to enable continuous improvement to be measured and monitored.

TMS2 helps clients’ businesses become more profitable by:
• improving margins by rigorous cost management
• re-directing a fleet onto more efficient routes
• moving more goods and services with fewer vehicles

TMS is designed to help a business attain higher levels of efficiency by:
• notifying customers of an impending delivery so that they can be ready to unload, reducing waiting time and increasing turnaround.
• reducing paperwork through automatic monitoring and reporting, removing the need for manual data collection.
• controlling communications costs - in-cab communication can be included within a fixed fee.

TMS2 delivers tangible business benefits:
• Profit margin improvement through rigorous cost management
• Reduced fuel consumption combined with more efficient use of time
• Real time information
• Faster, more accurate execution of transactions and processes
• On-going service level measurement and benchmarking
• Improved security
• Managed service significantly reducing IT and commercial risk

As a result, clients are able to take better business decisions because they always have a global picture of their operations, they have real time information so the decisions they make with customers and partners can always be based on shared information. Clients are able to improve their customer service because they always have real time information about a customer's goods and their whereabouts, so the control it gives allows them to fulfil a customers' most demanding expectations. Clients are able to reduce their operating costs because they are able to make the most efficient use of all of their resources and their employees can deal with useful business issues instead of wasting time trying to cope with problems

Operational benefits:

In addition to transport optimisation, drivers’ time can be actively planned, resulting in maximum productivity from the scarcest and most costly assets. Transport managers gain visibility of the time drivers spend at the depot from the start to the end of the shift. Pre-planning driver shifts with visibility of total driver hours required will enable reduction of ‘just in case’ labour costs such as excessive agency labour booking. By maximising the efficiency of drivers and vehicles, fewer resources are needed to run the same routes.

It becomes easy to calculate routes that maximise backhaul opportunities and minimise wasted journeys. Through more accurate scheduling of delivery times, idle time at depot is reduced, so that vehicles spend more time out on the road, and less time empty. Depots and customers know exactly where vehicles are, so they can more accurately prepare for the arrival of goods.

Visibility of poor vehicle performance can help reduce running costs and, most importantly, fuel consumption. By looking at the routes taken by vehicles, clients can begin to optimise the miles driven every day as well as detect unauthorised journeys and be in a position to curb or allow them.

Many businesses are happy to allow drivers certain flexibility when it comes to ad-hoc journeys or use a company vehicle for occasional private use. But this trust can be abused, with significant extra mileage incurred at the expense of the business. The data available from the system enables clients to decide how to manage any unauthorised journeys.

Organisational benefits:

An investment in the TMS2 system benefits everyone in the organisation enhancing the essential elements of modern business practice - productivity and competitiveness.

• Managing Directors can increase productivity, enable better customer service, safeguard reputation and help to win new business
• Financial Directors can reduce labour costs, produce electronic timesheets, reduce both fuel expenditure and insurance premiums
• Sales Directors can increase sales revenue, enable better territory management and facilitate more appointments
• Human Resources can plan staffing requirements, monitor working hours to comply with WTD and target driver training
• Fleet Managers can locate nearest vehicle to "x", provide better route planning, save on phone calls, increase vehicle utilisation and facilitate accurate service intervals
• Vehicle Drivers can have detailed route plans, a navigational aid, increased security, less in-vehicle paperwork and proof of service
• Customer Services can give faster more responsive service, keep customers updated and build customer satisfaction