- Global Trans-Modal Routing & Rating
Global trans-modal routing and rating engine that analyzes millions of transportation options, by scanning different networks, services and modes – encompassing both scheduled (Air, Bus, LTL, RFS, Rail/Intermodal, Ocean) and on-demand carriers (couriers, PU&D, TL, Air Charter). In seconds it generates optimal end-to-end shipping routes that reliably connect different modes and carriers, assembling it all into executable plans that contain precise schedules, costs, and margins. And so whether a shipping request is for same day, next day, or next week, you are able to present all options/delivery timeframes to your customer, with all the varying costs and margins.
Back to Top> - Tarrif Modeling
Unparalleled tariff modeling across all modes and services, including an extensive and configurable accessorial modeler which yields precise, true costs and margins, eliminating those common margin killer surprises. Shipping solutions are based on defined vendors, carriers, providers, and are optimized to yield higher margins on every shipment, allowing you to confidently say “Yes“ to your customer. This advanced tariff engine supports both the “buy” and “sell” sides of the transaction.
Back to Top> - Rules & Preferences Engine
This sophisticated rules based advisor allows operational acumen and best practices to be embedded as rules in the solution. Beyond considering carrier schedules, equipment, tariffs and accessorials, our graph theoretic optimization factors in hundreds of real world constraints, customer priorities, preferences, real-time data sources, and carrier performance metrics. And we enable you to embed your own operational acumen and best practices (tribal knowledge) into the solution – to minimize unexpected problems. ZMS engineers understand the power of modeling the real world when it comes to optmization. Considering real world operational nuances to improve planning while minimizing unexpected problems is the main driver behind this advanced module.
Back to Top> - Advanced Scoring Engine
Score and rank transportation providers (carriers, agents) by their services on configurable factors that matter most to you. Is it cost, performance, customer preference, and time or something else? You decide. Consider it all in real - time for each segment and for the full end-to-end route plan.
Back to Top> - Intelligent Inventory Sourcing (in time-sensitive environments)
ZMS offers an advanced sourcing engine that combines transportation & warehousing factors with complex customer and supplier rules and strategies for improved inventory fulfillment planning. For a given part request, the system will query all inventory locations to determine availability, even looking at substitute parts, on-hand, in-transit, and purchased inventory - performing thousands of trans-modal routing calculations, applying the appropriate rules to present the best fulfillment options in seconds. In Real time, this module determines where, when, and how to most cost effectively source
Back to Top> - Dynamic Consolidation
A dynamic, real-time consolidation engine – identifying consolidation opportunities from the point of sale to final delivery, simultaneously aggregating diverse customer orders to perform dynamic mode shifting, looking for lower cost, reliable options across both local* and line haul transportation. The system maintains all shipments, schedules, and their details in a high speed memory graph to allow for real-time, continuous consolidation. Thus, as soon as CSR’s enter shipment information, the system is not only performing the trans-modal route and rate optimization, it is also searching for consolidation opportunities and presenting these along with the non-consolidated options. This allows your CSRs to maximize your margin and / or pass certain savings to the customer. This engine is based on a break-through architecture and ZMS’s proprietary algorithms, driving consolidation savings well beyond traditional load planning systems. (not in GA).
Back to Top> - Optimization Suite of Modules
• Global Trans-modal Routing & Rating Optimizer
• Transportation Mode Modeler (Air, Ground, Rail, Ocean)
• Advanced Tariff Modeling & Rating (Buy & Sell)
• Intelligent Sourcing
• Bid Exchange Optimizer
• Advanced Score Carding
• Rules & Preference Engine
• Operational Simulation
• Dynamic Consolidation
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