Tramm - Transportation Management and Mobility

From First to Last Mile

Tramm is a transportation management platform that optimizes your operations, provides better visibility of your supply chain, improves your team's performance and keeps your customers happy. 

Full visibility and control over your transport operations.

Manufacturers, retailers, LSP's, 3PL's, 4PL's and carriers know that without visibility and control over their transport operations, errors and delays can have a negative effect - making customers unhappy and having a direct impact on the bottom line. There is a solution.

Tramm is a cloud-based end-to-end transport management software solution that facilitates transport operations for manufacturers, retailers and carriers. Tramm ensures on-time deliveries with the correct products – keeping customers happy.

Architecture

The most comprehensive cloud-based TMS

Tramm is a single sign-on, modular cloud-based platform, with modules for order management, route & load optimization, transporter management, mobile execution, control tower functionality and info dashboards.

Architecture

The most comprehensive cloud-based TMS

Tramm is a single sign-on, modular cloud-based platform, with modules for order management, route & load optimization, transporter management, mobile execution, control tower functionality and info dashboards.

Modules

Simple and Powerful Modules - Use Only What Your Business Needs

Comprehensive order management for multi-principal operations like 3PL's and 4PL's

Dynamic multi-day planning and scheduling for primary/secondary distribution and service-based fleets.

Advanced tariff, rating and contract management of external transporters.

Real-time visibility and execution management of both fleet and external transporters - predictive ETA's, live visibility, and more.

Task and time management mobile app with customizable workflow management and ePOD functionality.

Consolidated executive views customizable for your business.


Key Features

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Cloud -Based Solution

Tramm’s cloud-based transportation management software means you have access to all the information you need, when you need it.

Flexible API

The Tramm API can connect to any front- and back-end system as well as integrate into your company’s current logistics infrastructure and workflow.

Minimal Training

Tramm’s intuitive interface means easy onboarding and little training so that all of your users, regardless of their skills levels, can be up and running quickly.

Order and Multi-Principal Management

Complete order management for multi-principal operations like 3PL's and 4PL's.

  • Manage your orders in a variety of ways – by route assignment, load composition, shipment confirmation and reverse logistics.
  • Advanced billing and invoicing capabilities.
  • Provide optimal service that meets your service delivery and cost savings objectives.

Features of the Order and Multi-Principal Management Module

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Complete Order Management

For multi-principal 3PLS with nominated delivery days and calendar management.

Integrations

Integration with principal invoicing and warehouse systems.

Multi-Leg

Manages multi-leg moves with cross docks and transhipments.

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Activity Billing

Activity-based billing from 3PL to principals.

TMS Integration

Load building and integration with TMS.

Logistics

Manages forward and reverse logistics.

Benefits of the Order and Multi-Principal Management Module

Reduce fleet operating costs 10%-30%

Through better route planning and scheduling, your fleet will drive fewer miles, saving you lots of money. as your business grows, you will require fewer trucks and drivers. 

Better Service

Improving service delivery to and on behalf of principals.

Save Both Time and Money

More efficient and automated processes translate to significant cost savings. 

Route Planning and Optimization

Optimal route planning – automated and easily customizable.
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  • Advanced cloud-based enterprise-level dynamic multi-day route planning and scheduling for primary, secondary and service-based fleets.
  • Handles complex constraints of virtually any type of industry’s routing problems while dealing with increasing demands of customers for more frequent, precisely-timed deliveries.
  • Complete delivery, collection and service tasks while using less time, miles, trucks and drivers without sacrificing performance and customer satisfaction.

Features of the Route Planning and Optimization Module

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Customizable & Traffic-Based Route Optimization

Traffic-based route optimization algorithms create feasible and cost-effective routes quickly, regardless of the complexity of the constraints.

Dynamic Scheduling, Dispatch & Rescheduling

When the routing schedule is threatened by an unexpected event, reoptimize it with a click of a button.


Business-Specific Solvers



Solver can be swapped for any number of industry-specific solvers to deliver the most optimal results.


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Cross Docking

Easily include cross-docks in your scheduling and route optimization.





Order Splitting

Split orders across multiple vehicles when the vehicle capacity is exceeded. Also, do much more with orders (hold, release).




Order Pool Optimization

When you have a high-volume of orders in consistent shipping lanes, reduce your spend while improving transit times by consolidating (or “pooling”) shipments headed to the same region.

Benefits of the Route Planning and Optimization Module

Save Time and Money

Reduce fleet and operating costs by 10%-30% on average - through better route planning and scheduling your fleet will drive fewer miles, decreasing fuel and maintenance costs, your planning time will be reduced from hours to minutes and as your business grows you will require fewer trucks and drivers. 

Reduce Carbon Emissions

You can positively impact the environment through reduced carbon emissions achieved by reducing both miles driven and reduced number of vehicles required -- all due to better planning, scheduling and route optimization.

Make Better Business Decisions

You can use Tramm's route planning and optimization strategically to model a variety of scenarios, for example, "what if" scenarios such as how relocating a warehouse or using larger vehicles will impact cost and service. 

External Transporter Management

Manage your external transporters with advanced tariff, rating, contract management and more.

  • Advanced information management and financial administration system for the logistics environment.
  • Collect high volumes of orders from various external systems – scheduling, planning, forecasting and replenishment – and assign them correctly to the most appropriate external transporter based on contractual or cost considerations.
  • Detailed tariff modelling system that allows you to generate custom contracts based on transactional tariffs, date-specific tariffs, flat and variable rates, planned versus actual quantities and more.

Features of the Transporter Management (TMS) Module

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External and Internal Transporter Management

Full financial management of both your internal fleet and your external providers.

Trip Lifecycle Management



From source to payment, understand the full financial lifecycle of every trip.

Tariffs / Rates Management



Extremely rich and flexible tariff, rate and lane management.

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Documentation / Invoicing / Payment Management

Management of both transporter and client contracts with PO, SO and invoice creation, and much more.

Transporter Tendering Management

Transporter selection based on configurable settings and active tendering.



Transporter Portal



Web portal for transporters and clients to access for documentation and trip lifecycle management including POD management.

Benefits of the Transporter Management (TMS) Module

Streamlined Processes

Make your order management and financial management processes much more efficient - by integrating with your existing systems (ERP, forecasting, vehicle dispatch, etc) you can have a single view of the order lifecycles -enabling better control and sequencing of orders and improved compliance. 

Better Service

Improve service delivery to your customers and your transporters with automatic communication, access to documentation and all live financial information through web portals and automatic generation of relevant documentation.

Save Both Time and Money

Through automation of documentation (generation of invoices, POs, reports) and processes (application of tariffs, rates and charges), you will be able to reduce outstanding invoicing and improve cash flow.

Visibility and Control Tower

Improve visibility of your shipments. Improve team and customer performance. Reduce last mile costs.

  • Manage the execution of your trips in real-time through comprehensive visibility and control achieved by bringing tracking data (from both on-board GPS and mobile) together with planned data (from the Tramm Route Optimization module or an external system).
  • Instant alerting, dashboards and live predictive ETA’s gives managers, expeditors, and customers real-time visibility of all shipments.
  • Maintain live views of your operations and enable better performance via dashboards with learned insights that have been gleaned from deep data analytics on dwell times, travel times, driver performance, vehicle utilization and more.

Features of the Visibility and Control Tower Module

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Executive Dashboards

Customizable views for executives, planners and customers.



Live Trip Statuses and ETAs

Detailed planned versus actual views of your trips with live predictive ETAs.



Exception Management / Alerting

Configurable alerting platform with customizable escalation protocols and alerting via dashboards, email WhatsApp and SMS.

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Learning and Insights

Deep insights and learning gleaned from data analytics on stop/dwell times, turn-around times, travel times per leg, fixed vs. variable times, and more.

Performance Management

Monitor driver performance, expeditor performance, customer performance, and overall fleet performance and set KPIs against each of these.

Vehicle and Driver Management

Allocate vehicles and drivers to trips based on license, time worked to minimize over time and stay within legal limits. Keep track of off days and working days.

Benefits of the Visibility and Control Tower Module

Improved Visibility, Performance and Compliance

Achieve real-time visibility of how trips are progressing relative to the plan and live views of current operational tempo. Continually raise the bar for team (drivers, expeditors, controllers, even customers) performance through sophisticated scoring that can be measured against KPI's. Also, ensure legal compliance through comprehensive debriefing measures and logging of hours.

Better Customer Service

Amaze your customers with gradually improving delivery times and keep them happy through better communication achieved via live status updates and alerting.

Save Both Time and Money

Save both time and money through continually better planning and improved vehicle and resource utilization.   Planned versus actual data on dwell times, travel times, turnaround times and more is used to improve planning and customer performance while historical tracking of vehicle hours, mileage per trip, overtime costs and combined reports allows for improved asset and resource utilization.

Mobile Application

Mobile application with comprehensive workflow management and ePOD capabilities.

  • Android-based task- and time-management app for drivers and transporters. Scheduled deliveries or tasks are pushed to the mobile app in real-time, keeping staff on-track while providing on-hand smart tools for capturing proof of delivery, receipts, signatures and documentation.
  • Utilizes customizable workflows that can be designed according to your organization’s specific operational requirements.
  • Ensures all workflow activities are tracked and recorded so that they can be reviewed for key performance indicators, compliance, auditing and de-briefing purposes. Every event is time and location stamped.
  • Ensures that drivers are following the correct schedule and complying with all of your business processes.

Features of the Mobile Application

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Customizable Worflows

Create workflows for all different tasks and situations - completely customizable - ensuring that drivers are following your business processes.

On-Device Signing

Sign-on-screen allows for signature capturing for POD. Other smart task types include photo capture, barcode scanning, quantity capture and more.

Event Viewer

View all mobile events in real-time on a web-based administrative dashboard -- allowing you to monitor driver adherence, delivery discrepancies, POD's and more.

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No Signal? No Worries.

Even when there is no signal, workflows can still be completed and tasks will be automatically uploaded once signal is re-achieved.

No Onboard GPS? No Problem.

The mobile app can enable the mobile device to send a GPS stream into the system to ensure that tracking is occurring on all trips.

View External Transporter Trips

Send a link to external transporters for specific loads and track their progress via the mobile app.

Benefits of the Mobile Application

Improved Compliance and Performance

Customizable workflows ensure that your business processes are followed - enabling better overall performance. With all records digitally logged, compliance and legal audits can happen with peace of mind. 

Go Paperless

Completely digitized workflows and documentation processes will allow you to get rid of paper-based processes.

Save Both Time and Money

Quick scanning on and off capabilities right from your mobile device combined with an easy-to-follow mobile interface with custom workflows ensure that your team are working quicker. At the same time, ERP integration with automated invoicing enables you get paid quicker.  

Dashboards and Data Insights

Executive dashboards and meaningful data insights into your operations.

  • At a glance view the tempo of your operations, on-time statuses, travel distance monitors and more.
  • Enable your team and your customers to view on-time statuses via airport-style arrival and departure boards.
  • Easily see how your team is performing with automatically generated driver, expediter, fleet and overall trip scores. Quickly see how many alerts have been generated and whether these are within normal limits. At the same time, you’ll be able to view how many alerts have been acknowledged and whether this is tracking against KPI’s.

Features of the Dashboards and Data Insights Module

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Business Intelligence

BI through analysis of the planned data versus the vast amounts of telematics and IoT data in order to understand in real-time how your operations are actually performing.





Performance and Compliance

Measurement of individual performance of drivers, expeditors, controllers, different fleets, and even customers. Correct use of this information leads to an improvement in overall team performance, SLA compliance and customer service.



Continuous Improvement

Tramm provides feedback on these learned insights regarding operational performance to the planning system in order to ensure more accurate planning, scheduling and routing. Feedback can also be provided to customers to help them understand potential bottlenecks in their operations.

Benefits of the Dashboards and Data Insights Module

Improved Business Performance

Extensive measurement and analysis of asset performance, team performance and even customer performance with real-time displaying of this information allows executives to make informed business decisions for improvement of their operations. 

Better Service

Keep customers happy by giving them better performance through improved on-time deliveries and by providing them live dashboards enabling them to view the current status of all of their deliveries.

Save Both Time and Money

Save money and time through improved planning that is achieved by using data analysis gleaned from planned versus actual dwell times, travel times, turnaround times and more. 

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