Logistics Management Solutions
Our Logistics Management Solutions (LMS) suite of integrated transportation-management system offerings is designed to support our clients’ multifaceted transportation needs. LMS options can be configured and tailored, or available “out of the box,” to provide a comprehensive set of services to our customers. This robust solution’s complex supply chain management execution enables proactive end-to-end supply chain management.
LMS is your global transportation-management solution. The functionality includes order management, track and trace, warehouse integration, business intelligence, and freight audit and pay.
LMS manages multiregional, cross-regional routing, and multimodal routing across continents and global regions. With LMS, you can readily route from Singapore to Paris, for instance, across multiple modes, calculating appropriate transit times.
Key benefits of LMS are:
- Combines into a single, integrated transportation management, order management, and freight audit and pay system
- Enables shortened order-cycle times
- Promotes reliable supply chain consistency
- Minimizes transportation costs while meeting order service-level requirements
- Offers documented and proven transportation processes
Major elements of Menlo Worldwide Logistics’ LMS include:
Network Design Optimization — Build your logistics network with confidence knowing that facilities and resources are positioned to meet current and projected business needs.
Order to Shipment — Uses sophisticated order prioritization logic based on dates, customer profiles and availability to normalize orders into shipments. In addition, our freight systems can manage at the order-line level to optimize freight costs.
Transportation Management — Decision-making tools select carriers and routes, including complex freight modes, such as pooling, multistop and continuous move, based upon customer-specific selection rules.
Sophisticated Rating Engine — Comprehensive rating system designed to precisely fit your business needs (e.g., proprietary or commercial LTL, or mileage band TL). The engine can store planned, actual and projected rates.
Tactical Shipment Optimization — Including complex multimode, multistop routing, aggregation and continuous moves. Optimizes lowest-cost transportation within service-level requirements.
Freight Audit and Pay — The system uses parameter-driven data validation and process definition to match actual and budgeted transportation costs. This streamlined invoice exception-management process reduces cycle time and audit time, while controlling overall transportation costs.
Automatic Truckload — Manages shipment aggregation based on order- and customer-based rules to consolidate to the truckload level.
Direct Delivery — A last-mile delivery system that gets product into your customers’ hands on schedule by allocating and scheduling delivery resources.
In-Transit Merge — Coordinates multiple inbound shipment legs from various sources to enable a single, consolidated delivery to your customer.