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Complete transportation planning and optimization
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Comprehensive carrier management and tendering
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Transportation management, visibility, and analytics
Complete transportation planning and optimization
GEODIS TMS evaluates every inbound and outbound order so it can consolidate and optimize your shipments. Our technology-driven approach reduces costs while ensuring fast, high-quality deliveries across our entire transportation network.
- Automatic consolidation of shipments based on geography, facilities locations, and network capacity
- Intelligent carrier selection using contracted and spot rates along with accessorial and fuel fees
- Strategic mode shifting between truckload, LTL, intermodal, and small parcel based on cost and service requirements
- Support for multi-stop routing and optimization to create immediate cost efficiencies
- Creation of optimal loads using transportation mode shifts and pooling techniques
- Comparison of multiple scenarios so you can choose the best options for your specific needs
- End-to-end implementation, management, tracking, and tracing for all consolidated shipments
- Reduction of transportation emissions through optimized routing and consolidation
- Reduction in fines, chargebacks and penalties with your retailers
Many clients have reduced their LTL shipments by up to 60% through our consolidation capabilities.
60
%
reduction in LTL shipments
Comprehensive carrier management and tendering
GEODIS TMS streamlines your carrier selection and management with powerful tools that provide optimal performance, cost, and service. We maintain high levels of routing guide compliance while reducing your administrative burden.
- Housing and monitoring of all carrier rates, tariffs, fuel tables, and accessorial charges
- Rate quotes and comparisons across carriers and transportation modes
- Carrier selection based on price, service, or transit time requirements
- Electronic tendering directly with carriers including all documentation
- Tracking and tracing functionality for assets and loads
- Contract and rate management across all modes
- Monitoring of insurance and carrier liability limits
- Alert management for missed deliveries, pickups, and capacity limitations
- 90-93% truckload routing guide compliance and nearly 100% for other modes
Our TMS integrates with our carrier network of 30,000+ providers with freight under management exceeding $2.5 billion.
+
2.5
billion dollars
in freight under management
Transportation management, visibility, and analytics
GEODIS TMS gives you robust reporting and analytics that provide complete visibility into our transportation operations. Our centralized system offers real-time insights that drive continuous improvement.
- Comprehensive dashboard reporting on all transportation activities
- Real-time tracking and status updates on all shipments
- Performance metrics, including on-time pickup and delivery
- Cost analysis across lanes, carriers, and modes
- Carrier performance scorecards and compliance tracking
- Carrier EDI compliance reporting
- Automated alerts for potential issues before they impact service
- Regular performance reviews with improvement recommendations
- Exportable reports in various formats
- Business intelligence tools for trend analysis and optimization
- Full integration with GEODIS Visibility Portal for extended reporting
You'll get full visibility into our transportation networks, moving from "data darkness" to transparency within the first month.
Transportation Management System capabilities
Frequently asked questions about our Transportation Management System
A Transportation Management System (TMS) is specialized software that optimizes the movement of goods across your supply chain. The GEODIS TMS benefits your business by consolidating shipments, optimizing carrier selection, improving on-time delivery performance (typically to 98%), reducing transportation costs, and providing real-time visibility. Our clients have seen significant improvements in efficiency, with many reducing their LTL shipments by 60% through consolidation capabilities.
GEODIS implements our TMS in an average of 3 months, compared to competitors' timelines of 18+ months. For less complex requirements, we can configure simple TMS solutions in as little as 5 days. Implementation complexity varies based on the number of locations, ERP integration requirements, and stakeholder involvement. Our streamlined approach means you'll start seeing value and collecting valuable data from day one.
While some TMS's typically requires 18 months to 3 years for implementation, GEODIS delivers a fully operational system in just 3 months. Our approach focuses on practical value rather than excessive features, providing the reliability and efficiency you need without the extended implementation timeline. Our system offers enterprise-grade performance with 99.9% availability and the capacity to process 6,000-12,000 orders daily for large clients.
The GEODIS TMS provides complete support for all major transportation modes including Less Than Truckload (LTL), Truckload (TL), Multi-stop TL, Intermodal, Drayage, Small Parcel, Last Mile Delivery, Ocean, Air, Direct Store Delivery, and Expedited shipping. The system optimizes across these modes to select the most efficient and cost-effective option for each shipment.
The TMS improves on-time delivery through several mechanisms: real-time tracking of all shipments, proactive alert notifications for potential delays, optimization of carrier selection based on performance history, weather monitoring and impact analysis, and continuous performance measurement. Multiple clients have improved their on-time delivery performance from 60-70% to 98% after implementing our TMS, significantly reducing retailer fines and chargebacks.
Our TMS reduces transportation costs through multiple approaches: consolidating orders to reduce the total number of shipments, optimizing mode selection between truckload, LTL, and intermodal, building multi-stop routes to maximize efficiency, comparing contract and spot rates to find the lowest cost, and ensuring routing guide compliance (90-93% for truckload, nearly 100% for other modes). Many clients have reduced their LTL shipments by 60% through our consolidation capabilities.
The GEODIS TMS provides comprehensive reporting including performance against SLAs, on-time pickup and delivery across modes, carriers, and lanes, rate benchmarking, carrier capacity commitments, tender acceptance metrics, and trend-based dashboards. Reports can be scheduled or run on demand in various formats (.csv, .pdf, or .xls). The system fully integrates with the GEODIS Visibility Portal, providing additional dashboard reporting and analytics capabilities.
Our TMS provides data exchange and updates via EDI, API, and XML. The system easily syncs orders and information between its internal data structure and your Enterprise Resource Planning systems. We have experience integrating with major systems and provide full integration capabilities with many external client and carrier systems.
GEODIS offers a multi-layered training approach including built-in work instructions within the TMS interface, pre-implementation training sessions, video tutorials and documentation, follow-up training sessions based on client needs, and guided tutorials for self-service learning. We also provide ongoing education through monthly newsletters with market insights, regular performance reviews with improvement recommendations, and training on new features as they become available.
The GEODIS TMS provides enterprise-grade security and reliability with SOC-certified security protocols, system availability exceeding 99.9%, and a dedicated server environment providing controlled update management. We control when to implement quarterly updates, allowing for thorough testing before deployment to reduce the risk of disruption. The system can process 6,000-12,000 orders daily for large clients with consistent performance and reliability.