A comprehensive transportation management system for a large steel manufacturer

The Client – Is a large steel manufacturer operating over 8 plants

The Challenge – Streamlining the process for managing transportation : from indenting of trucks to managing the arrival, parking, loading and dispatch. 

The Solution – A transportation management system that manages the entire transporter collaboration to vehicle booking to vehicle details and entry, parking, loading, weighing and dispatch of the vehicles. Various aspects like route optimisation, order optimisation, loading sequencing etc. were built into the system. The system uses multiple technologies like GPS, RFID, Computer vision and various communication channels.

The key elements of the solution – 

• Order management ro
• Vehicle order and transporter confirmation
• Advance details of vehicles and driver
• Gate in process and parking bay allocation
• Sequencing for loading and driver intimation
• Loading automation and PLC integration
• Weighbridge integration
• Invoicing 
• Plant out
• Vehicle enroute tracking
• Delivery confirmation
• Control tower 
• Analytics
• Alerts 
• Transporter invoicing and settlement