Editor’s Pick: Fundamentals of a Successful Transportation Management System

Note: Today’s post is part of our “Editor’s Pick” series where we highlight posts published by our sponsors that provide practical knowledge and advice on timely and important supply chain and logistics topics. This recent post by Brad Forester from JBF Consulting’s blog highlights the most frequent “traps” shippers fall into during the project phase that arguably have the most impact on a transportation management system’s implementation success.

While it may seem trivial and unexciting, the functional requirement represents the fundamental building block for any successful transportation management system (TMS) selection and implementation.

Requirements are critical to ensure the shipper has found the most optimal vendor-partner, and they are also foundational to nearly the entire implementation process.

This article highlights the most frequent “traps” we see shippers falling into during the project phase that arguably has the most impact on implementation success – the Vendor Selection stage.

Sophisticated shippers capture and prioritize business requirements as a key input into their TMS vendor selection process.

Unfortunately, most shippers rely too heavily on 3rd party industry analysis that can’t identify the specific functional requirements that can enable them to more precisely down-select one or more TMS software vendors.

We call these “differentiating requirements,” and they are essential to the proper fit, selection, and implementation of supply chain execution systems.

Read More at JBF Consulting’s Blog