What is the best transportation management system?
What is the best transportation management system? This is a question owners and managers ask themselves before choosing a TMS for their trucking company. It would seem that the answer to this question should be obvious. But it's not. The best transportation management system is not number one in the ranking, it is not the system with the most reviews and it is not the system that your competitors use. And we will now tell you why.
Why will the best transportation management system for each company be different?
There are a huge number of trucking companies, with their own needs and capabilities. Along with them, there are many TMS that implement their own sets of features, cost, development, and support teams. Based on the above, we can conclude that the best transportation management system will be the one that fits specifically the requirements and budget of your company.
How to choose the best transportation management system?
In order to choose the best transportation management system, it is enough to take the following steps:
- determine the list of features your company needs
- determine an acceptable budget
- find a TMS that implements the necessary features within a certain budget
- learn about the capabilities of the development team to develop TMS and promptly make the necessary changes
- learn about the responsiveness of the support team
Not the best transportation management system.
Naturally, no one will agree to pay for additional features that are in TMS, but your company does not need them. No one will pay for a transportation management system that does not fit within a certain budget. No one will pay for a TMS that was last updated more than a year ago or whose support team answers a question a week later or does not answer at all.