28/02/2022

Achieving complete multimodal efficiency

02/28/2022 | 4 min

Using SupplyStack and the Transporeon Transportation Management Platform for multimodal planning and execution

SupplyStack has joined the Transporeon Transportation Management Platform, making their extensive multimodal planning and execution solution available through a single and unified portal. This means that shippers and carriers in the world’s largest transportation network can now handle all their transportation modes at scale, regardless of complexity, while enjoying seamless integration with other platform modules.

SupplyStack are specialists in both automating multimodal scenarios and dealing with less-than-FTL shipments in order to increase efficiency, reduce costs and improve customer experience. Through one interface they offer the capability to manage and monitor

Road, ocean, rail and air transport flows, as well as LTL, groupage and parcel shipments. This allows shippers and carriers to better manage incidents as well as understand not just where a shipment is but the status and next steps. Through their integration in the Transporeon Transportation Management Platform, these functionalities can further deepen multimodal planning, execution and visibility.

As part of the Transporeon Transportation Management Platform, multimodal planning and execution is now fully accessible as part of an ecosystem of complementary and digitized modules. By working together with other parts of the platform, like Transporeon Visibility Hub and Logit One, users of SupplyStack can enjoy further benefits.

Multimodal

Between shippers & retailers and carriers & forwarders, there has been a proliferation of different tools to help plan and monitor transports. This in turn creates a huge blind spot when it comes to visibility as between the stakeholders, there can be a significant shortfall in coverage when moving between modes. SupplyStack offers a single solution for all parties to manage and track transports over multiple modes, and integration with Transporeon helps unlock further benefits. For road transports, shippers can now execute spot tenders that extend to a pool of over 130,000 carriers through the Sixfold network. Once these transports have been assigned, they can also be tracked in real-time through Sixfold. For ocean legs, an integration with Logit One allows for the same ability to track in real-time and so react to delays as they happen, meaning total visibility across pre-, main and on-carriage shipping.

LTL Deliveries

The Transporeon Transportation Management Platform has traditionally been a heavyweight for FTL transports, so the addition of the SupplyStack TMS is great news for companies with more complex transportation flows. Shippers can now manage shipments with over 50 stops and continue to track delivering on the article level from parcel providers. This support for parcel flows and last-mile deliveries will add extra layers of planning and execution across of modals.
 

Transporeon Transportation Management Platform

The Transporeon Transportation Management Platform is fully equipped to meet modern supply chain needs. Our robust capabilities include, market intelligence, freight procurement, matchmaking & transport execution, dock scheduling, yard management & visibility. To further support this 360° approach to transport procurement and execution, we also provide settlement, payment and audit capabilities. All of this is fully deployable across the globe for continent-spanning multi-modal coverage that can handle any load.

With over 1300 industrial shippers, more than 100 large retailers, and more than 130,000 carriers on our digital freight platform, we are driven to provide industry best digital process efficiency in logistics. Our goal is to help all stakeholders to see benefits in their sustainability, resilience, innovations and growth. At Transporeon, we are bringing your transportation in sync with the world.

About the Author

Jonathan Raemdonck was the head of marketing at SupplyStack for 5 years before moving to Transporeon as their head of product marketing. With close to 15 years of experience in providing technology solutions to the logistics industry, Jonathan describes his role as helping companies to meet their customers’ expectations, keep the flow of goods moving and to deliver transport excellence at a competitive price.

"The Transporeon Transportation Management Platform is great news for our customers. With access to the largest network of shippers, carriers and retailers their scope to follow transportation across all modes increases dramatically, while also getting excellent access to new services like freight procurement & rate management, spot assignment as well as the freight settlement and audit services."

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Transport Execution Hub

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Dock & Yard Management Hub

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Extended Yard Management powered by Peripass
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Transport Execution Hub

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Freight Sourcing Hub

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Freight Sourcing Hub

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Freight Sourcing Hub

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Transport Execution Hub

No-Touch Order

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Transport Execution Hub

Rate Management

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Visibility Hub

Real Time Workflow

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Dock & Yard Management Hub

Real-Time Yard Management

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Dock & Yard Management Hub

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Time Slot Management for Retail
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