In my last blog post, I explained how consolidating orders to create routing and scheduling plans is much more complicated than widely assumed.
So complicated, in fact, that doing the calculations manually often results in costly errors.
That’s why automating the process makes a lot of sense.
Still, some freight managers understandably find it difficult to accept that paying for an automated version of such a routine operation saves money and improves customer service.
A key feature of advanced transportation management system (TMS) technology, especially in conjunction with Managed TMS® solutions, is an optimization tool that dynamically consolidates orders to create efficient routing and scheduling plans for multi-leg shipments.