A Transportation Management System ( TMS ) is critical for the operation of any 3PL Logistics company.
DhiLogics TMS not only provides a software platform for automating the operations of any Transportation company, but drives in efficiency by providing advanced features like Transport Network Analysis, Route Optimization, Cost Benefit Analysis etc.
2. Orders Dispatch Transit
ReceiveDeliver
Transport Operations
Contract Customers & Others
Powerful Pricing engine
Web, Mobile Web, Mobile
Web, Mobile Web, Mobile
Web
Advanced Router for
Delivery Planning
Track
Plan and
Dispatch
POD
Inter office Memo
8. Customer Order Management
•Create Shipments with and without
Contracts
•Prefill data for Contract Customers
•Automatically indicate Shipment
Documents needed
Automated SMS/Email alerts on creation
Customer Order Management
11. Local Pickup and
Delivery Trips
•Manage Local
Pickup and Delivery
Trips
Routing
•Optimized Route for
Pickup and Delivery
•Save on Time and
Cost
Local Delivery and Pickup
Ref Advanced Features
15. Route Optimization
Route optimization does a Transportation Network Analysis to
create an optimized shipment plan by using the selected trips and
the shipments. There are different parameters that are used in
determining the best optimal routes for vehicles for delivering the
shipments on time.
Cost Analysis
Gives a complete cost analysis of shipment plan. For each
shipment it gives the details of transportation cost share,
warehouse cost, load/unload cost etc.
It allows to do a What-if analysis by allowing to modifying the
parameters and rerunning the routing plan creation. Users can
come up with the best cost effective plan using the cost analysis
module.
Route Optimization using
Transportation Network Analysis
17. Consider your company has shipments lying in multiple locations. They
should be delivered to multiple destinations. Some of the shipments pass
through various Transhipment points.
Manually planning the trip for each packet will be a laborious task. There
are multiple parameters that needs to be considered like shipment type,
weight/volume of the shipment, available capacity of the vehicle, average
speed etc.
Planning module takes all the shipments and trips and then generate a
complete end to end trip plan for each of the shipment. It considers above
mentioned parameters in coming up with an optimal plan by reducing the
cost, increasing the yield and by increasing the customer satisfaction by
trying to deliver the shipments on time for the customer.
Planning helps you to increase the utilization and revenue by identifying
the underutilized vehicles and segments before hand and plan for co-
loading or market vehicles.
Planning helps you to find gaps in your planned trips for better delivery of
your shipments and helps you to take necessary actions.
How it helps?
19. Why and when to do a operational
cost analysis?
In a highly competitive industry like logistics every
paisa saved matters
Identifying and predicting loss making routes help in
course correction
Analyzing your route margins at the earliest helps you
reduce the cost.
Fully understanding the Transhipment costs is
essential for running a successful hub and spoke
model
20. What are the current Problems
faced?
Accuracy
Most operations manager roughly estimate the margins for each
trip. This need not be accurate.
Complexity:
With additional trans shipment points, calculating margins
become more difficult and less accurate
This becomes even more complex with increasing fleet size
Delay in Course Correction:
Course correction is mostly reactive and not predictive. i.e. The
management will be aware of a loss making route only after
running the route for some time. In India this is typically
identified in 6-8 months. This drains already low margin business.
22. Process FOR calculating margin
Benefit Analyze
Freight
Amount
Other
Services
Vehicle
Handlin
g
Pickup/
Delivery
Margin
Costs
23. MATH behind DhiLogics TMS
Revenue is spread across the distance travelled by the
cargo.
If a cargo worth INR 1000.00 travels 100 km, revenue
generated for each km is INR 10.00.
Cost is divided into multiple layers
Cost per Mile for Company of Vehicle or Market Price for
Market/Contract vehicle is used for calculating the cost
Additional costs like Loading/Unloading charges,
Warehousing charges etc. are considered for each
Transhipment. This can be different for different locations.
Pickup/Delivery costs are applied
27. Optimize Delivery/Pickup Routes
Unique and Algorithm to ensure maximum use of
assets
Reduce Manual Planning for each Delivery/Pickup
Integrated with the DhiLogics TMS
Map integration with
OSM ( Open Street Map )
Google Maps
DhiLogics Router
28. Setup Local
Network and Virtual
Distribution points (
1 time setup)
Configure your
vehicles with
Capacity and Costs
Select Shipments
Run Optimization
Engine
Execute Plan
How it works?
29. Consider you have around 2000 packets that needs to be
delivered or picked up from different locations. You have
around 10 vehicles
Manually planning the number of vehicles required and the
route for each vehicle and planning these 2000 packets to
these vehicles will be time taking process
DhiLogics Router does this in a single click in producing an
optimal plan using minimum vehicles and thus saving TIME,
FUEL and COST
How it Helps?
31. Mobile
• Order Creation
• Load/Unload
• Pickup and
Delivery
• Mark Position of
Consignor
• Shipment Tracking
• Attach POD
images
GPRS
• Integrate with any
GPRS device
• Track shipments
with GPRS data
SMS/Email
• Real Time Alerts
to Customers on
Shipments
• Configurable Email
alerts
• Notifications on
booking and
delivery with POD
attached.
Accounting
• Integrate with
World renowned
Accounting
Packages like Tally
and Quickbooks.
Key Integrations with DhiLogics TMS
Using our Android application, Most of the operations of a
Franchise can be achieved. This helps to reduce cost of
computerization
33. Common Issues with missing cargo
Most common issue a
transportation company
faces is the case of
“missing” cargos
There could be many
reasons for this. The graph
highlights some of the
common reasons and
percentage of occurrence.
60
20
15
5
Mishandling while
loading and…
Theft
Lack of planning
Other Reasons
Percentage
Percentage
34. The causes - Why it happens ?
Mishandling
•Errors while loading and
unloading
•Miscommunication
•Incorrect data entry
•No end to end data visibility
or tracking
Theft
•Theft of High Value Items
• No system to pinpoint the
last known position
• No end to end tracking
Lack of Planning
•Not Data Driven Planning
•Manually organized leading
to errors
•No checks or validations
•Lack of management
•Person dependent
Others
•Lack of training
•Time constraints
35. How does it affect the Company
Loss of
credibility
Loss of High
Value Goods
Additional
Cost
Unable to
meet On-Time
delivery
36. How DhiLogics TMS can help ?
DhiLogics TMS
Advanced
Tracking
System
generated
Load Sheet
System
generated
Unload
Sheet
Identify last
known
location
Location
wise
inventory
Advanced
Alerts or
Reports
37. Implemented by handling design of Supply Chain
Exceptions
Most software depends on point to point movements
and updates on the packets for tracking.
We forecast the movements through the hubs and
record the updates. Hence any missed transactions at
the shipment level will be alerted at the hubs.
Shipment Tracking
39. Scenario-1
PUNE
BANGALORE
CHENNAI
Trip 1 - Vehicle 1
Trip 2 - Vehicle 2
X
Load
LR# - 1234
Pune to Chennai
LR# - 1234
Pune to Chennai
LR# 1234 is from Pune to Chennai. As per the original plan, LR is
shipped to Bangalore in Vehicle 1 and from Bangalore to
Chennai in Vehicle 2.
In the above scenario the package is unloaded in Bangalore
and not loaded into the Vehicle 2.
Un Load Load
40. How Is IT WORKING ?
Other TMS
Data is logged after the event.
i.e. Once the shipment is loaded,
only then the TMS is updated
Difficult to track the exact
position of the cargo
High probability of manual error
- Loaded not recorded,
Unloaded but not recorded etc.
NO DATA NO ACTION
DhiLogics TMS
End to End scheduling can be
done in advance
What needs to be loaded & what
needs to be unloaded is driven
by system generated Load
sheets
If the shipment does not reach
the exact destination alerts and
messages will be triggered
DATA DRIVEN DECISION
41. Behind DhiLogics TMS
3+ years of research and development
Team of more than 15+ years of Supply Chain and Logistics
experience in India and US.
Rapid Application Development framework for easy
customization
Proven track record
HELP US IMPROVE YOUR BUSINESS.
Jay Nair
CEO, DhiLogics India Pvt. Ltd
Jay.nair@dhilogics.com
Mobile – 808 626 7889
