OTM
OTM- Transportation planning System. It integrates and streamlines
- Transportation planning
- Transportation execution
- Freight payment
- Business Process automation
- What is in trucks
- Where are trucks
- When to deliver
- which shipments are running late
- which routes are profitable
Concepts & Functionality
OTM is integrated with Order Management(or external order processing system) which feeds sales orders to OTM.
Phases
- Plan
- Optimize, route & Consolidate
- Order consolidation, multi-stop truck load, pooling, cross-docking, continuous moves, Multi-mode(internation)
- Multi-leg
- transporation has more than one itinary/trips/stops
- Execute
- Monitor in-transit shipments
- Settle
- Automate freight payment & customer billing
Shipper
- Review shipment request from OM or ERP
- Create Tender
- Publish tender to service provider
- Service provider approves tender (isp)
- picks up the shipment
- tracking of shipment
- send notifications until the shipment is delivered
Process Flow
- ERP
- Sales order created in Order Management
- Sale order is published to WMS & Transport Management System(OTM)
- Transport Management System(OTM)
- Creates Shipment & tender
- Sends tender to carrier
- Warehouse management system
- Once tender is accepted by carrier, Shipment is sent to Warehouse management system
- pick, pack, ship into container
Demo
- Order Entry on OMS
- Publish order to OTM
- Planner reviews order in OTM and does following
- plans shippments
- Publishes Tender to carrier
- Carrier accepts the tender from mobile/mail notification
- Book dock appointment for carrier with WMS
- Carrier completes the shipment
- Carrier raises invoice using OTM
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Order Management
- Sales Order lines(order creation) in OM
- Fulfillment lines(execute order, book/submit & schedule order). This contains shipdate, arrival date and so
- Order Orchestration Process(copy seeded and modify it) to fulfill the order
- Publish to OTM for planning
- Log into OTM as Planner
- Planning workbench -> review new orders from OM
- Bulk Plan the order
- Tender the shipment & publish to carrier
- OTM mobile app used by carrier
- Accept/Decline the tender
- Dock Appointment(load the luggage into carrier)
- OTM schedule appointment
- select schedule available
- Shipment details are sent to WMS cloud(WMS cloud has the details of Order from Order management)
- Warehouse people Pick, Pack, ship the items
- Based on dock appointment, the load will be pushed to Truck. Shipment will be executed.
- Carrier can use OTM mobile app to complete shipment
- Once shipment is delivered, invoice is created
- Match the invoice against shipment and pay the carrier
- Invoice contains base freight charge
- Sur changes(addln amounts)
- Other features
- Shipment visbility
- Track and Trace
- IOT Fleet monitoring - Shipment tracking
- When OTM is ready to execute shipment, it sends URL to driver.
- Driver will have OTM fleet monitoring app in mobile
- Driver can accept the shipment
- Fleet monitoring app will send notifications to OTM cloud
- It gives real time location
Blockchain
- Distributed ledger, common database
- realtime unalterable records
- Each block is connected with hashtag, which makes it unmutable
- This is required when parties don't trust each other
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