The Design And Implementation Of Enterprise Transportation Management System

Transportation Management System (TMS) is the collection of the informationabout logistics activities. In a transportation management system the data is managedand the decisions are made for the transportation activities. The specific contents ofthe management includes: decision of transportation tools, decision of transportationroute, the decision of goods volume and batch, the selection and tracing of goodsstatus. And this information needs the data from TMS which is sure to be effectiveand accurate. This ensures that the transportation activities can be achievied with theminimum transportation cost and maximum profits.There are currently some problems in existing transportation managementsystems at home and abroad. First, many enterprises use common logisticmanagement systems for the duty of transportation managements. So themanagement to goods and environment does not aim to clear destinations. Thecommon logistic management systems are inappropriate for the businessmanagement demands of specific industries, so some problems and flaws occur.Second, existing TMS lack of effective plan about transportation route. Theproblems of transportation route plans need the effective informations about startpoint, intermediate points and end points. And existing TMS do not have theseinformations, or the related informations are far from comprehensive. So the existingplaned routes are not the optimal, and the transportation profits are not the most.Finally, the information and normalization in national enterprices are not enough.And this limited the development of TMS. Furthermore this cannot meet theincreasing demand of customers. The modern transportation management thoughtand developing awareness of national enterprices are still weak, and the interactionsof transportation goods related information are not timely and streamlined enough,so the transport efficiency are low.For these problems, Heilongjiang Dairy Group hopes the development andusage of TMS towards specific goods (dairy goods), which can deal with themanagement and deployment of the total transportation activities.In this paper, the current states of research about existing TMS are discussed,and the problems of these TMS are analyzed, and the related technologies areintroduced. In this paper according to the business demand from Heilongjiang DairyGroup, the functional demands of enterprise transportation management system arecollected and improved. On the base of these related technologies, the design andimplementation of this TMS are finished. The discussions include how to achieve the managements of basic information, driver information, auditing information,transport plan information, goods real-time information and query information.Judging from the current situation of China’s transportation industry, the studyof the transportation management system has very important practical significa nceand wide application prospect.