the lowest-cost carriers available,” says Jack Hat eld, founder and president, Hat eld & Associates. “It also has visibility to their inbound for compliance, which is critical to ensuring that vendors actually select the least-cost carrier and not go around them. There’s compliance on both sides: inbound and outbound.” the lowest-cost carriers available,” “It also has visibility to their that vendors actually select the select the least-cost
when a customer’s suppliers come into our environment to create inbound shipments destined to our customers, we have control towers inside the global regions to support those suppliers. “We train them in their own languages. We allow our tools to be con gured in every language globally, so that the users actually globally, so that the that the users actually see the header information in their language. Having those resources globally in China and Singapore and in Europe and in
nVISION GLOBAL: Meeting Demands Around the World Meeting Demands Around
costs and make decisions on how best to optimize various aspects within their supply chain to maximize ef ciency at the lowest cost. “When you use our TMS, you have the ability to do a ‘least cost’ rating for a single service mode or cargo type, as well as a ‘least cost’ rating for multiple cargo types so that you can see all the comparisons and make the right decision for that movement,” Dunsmore says. “Internationally, you can compare intermodal to ocean to air and select the most competitive rates based on your existing contracts,” he adds. EXPANDED CUSTOMER BASE “As of just three years ago, nVision’s TMS clients were focused mainly in the technology and industrial oil and gas sectors, but the company has expanded its customer base to medical, retail, and food spaces, while also expanding solutions within Asia and Europe,” according to Dunsmore. “Because we focus on con guring our software to a customer application, we gain an advantage going into new markets because we’re used to being able to adapt and con gure the software to meet different business processes,” he says. “nVision’s global presence means that it does not merely offer services in international regions; it has the resources to support those services in the eld,” Dunsmore notes. “We have a global infrastructure, so costs and make decisions how best nVision’s Impact TMS allows users to plan, organize, and manage all global shipments in one easy-to-use solution.
South America, keeps us always in close contact to support our customers’ trading partners,” Dunsmore notes. contact to support our support our customers’ trading
While many transportation management systems can manage domestic shipping, nVision Global stands out in the marketplace by having “a truly global TMS,” says Stewart Dunsmore, senior vice president, supply chain services. That label stems in part from the capability of nVision Global’s Impact TMS that allows global clients to manage their regional movements with local currencies, while viewing their supply chain data in their native currency. For instance, a European-based customer with operations in Asia and North America can execute shipments with the currencies of those regions, but then manage them centrally using euros as their reporting currency. “We offer a global freight management solution to the marketplace,” says Dunsmore. “nVision Global emphasizes understanding the speci c challenges that a business faces and cultivating solutions around those challenges,” he adds. “Our rate engines allow customers to rate shipments based on multiple transportation modes. “nVision features a spot auction tool that is global in nature, but also has a regional component that allows clients to go to the spot market to get rates and compare those rates to their contracted rates,” Dunsmore notes. In addition, nVision’s insight analytics tools measure every aspect of clients’ supply chains and the costs associated with them, helping shippers to manage While many transportation management
PRINCETON TMX Emphasizing the User Experience For Princeton TMX’s transportation management system, the quality of the user experience is always a primary concern. Princeton TMX stresses understanding the experience of its clients’ team members who use the company’s TMS daily. That means focusing on elements such as the simplicity of adopting the TMS and the ef ciency and intuitiveness of its work ow. “We nd that the degree to which your user interface is easy to use improves the adoption rate from within the shipper community,” says Kevvon Burdette, chief commercial of cer of the Fort Wayne, Indiana-based company. “You also want to simplify transactions as much as possible to create an inherent work ow within the TMS that shippers can easily relate to.” In addition, Burdette says, Princeton TMX targets improving not only the shipper experience but also the carrier one. That’s because when carriers have a great experience working with a shipper, such as via the technology tools that the shipper uses, then they are more likely to embrace opportunities to work with that shipper in the future. “We focus on a good carrier experience, as well as on some little things in our system that were built with
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