DUSHANBE, November 26, 2012, Asia-Plus — Specialists from the federal state unitary enterprise (FSUE) Scientific Center for Complex Transportation Problems at the Ministry of transport of Russia have completed development of a draft concept of the system for management of a common transportation space of the Eurasian Economic Community (EAEC).
The project has been implemented in cooperation with the national profile institutes from the EAEC member nations under technical support of the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB).
The draft concept, in particular, notes that consecutive and efficient implementation of integration priorities within the EAEC area is impossible without creation of a common transportation management system.
Formation of supranational transportation management system should carried out step-by-step and be completed in 2015, press release issued by EDB said.
A transportation management system (TMS) is a subset of supply chain management concerning transportation operations and may be part of an enterprise resource planning system.
A TMS usually “sits” between an ERP or legacy order processing and warehouse/distribution module. A typical scenario would include both inbound (procurement) and outbound (shipping) orders to be evaluated by the TMS Planning Module offering the user various suggested routing solutions. These solutions are evaluated by the user for reasonableness and are passed along to the transportation provider analysis module to select the best mode and least cost provider. Once the best provider is selected, the solution typically generates electronic load tendering and track/trace to execute the optimized shipment with the selected carrier, and later to support freight audit and payment (settlement process). Links back to ERP systems (after orders turned into optimal shipments), and sometimes secondarily to WMS programs also linked to ERP are also common.
