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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