Oracle Transportation Management

Data Sheet

Oracle Transportation

Management

Oracle Transportation Management (OTM) provides a single platform

for companies to manage all transportation activity throughout their

supply chains. The solution allows companies to minimize cost,

optimize service levels, and create flexible business process

automation within their global transportation and logistics networks.

Designed to support the needs of both shippers and logistics service

providers (LSPs), OTM creates an information bridge across

functional silos, geographic regions, languages, currencies, and

business units, and supports customers from basic transportation

needs to highly complex logistics requirements.

Global control, local execution, central management

Oracle Transportation Management enables companies to manage their

transportation networks on a global basis in terms of supply chain flows (outbound

finished goods, inbound supplies, inter-facility/company shipments, returns), modes

of transport (over the road, air, ocean and rail) and geographic area (domestic and

international). It provides simultaneous support for multiple languages, currencies,

units of measure and business functions that may vary by business unit and

geographic region. As a result, companies can support the nuances of their global

operations while reaping the efficiencies provided by a single transportation

management solution.

The foundation of excellence

Oracle Transportation Management provides support for the following key

transportation business functions, and can easily integrate with your finance and

other supply chain management applications:

! Transportation order management: Integration with external order

management, purchasing, warehouse and other systems for purposes of

managing transport demand. Transportation order management functions can

be provided to external parties in the supply chain, such as suppliers who

provide “ready to ship” information to release purchase orders.

! Rate management: A global repository and rating engine for service provider

contracts for transportation and related services. Oracle Transportation

Management enables companies to manage all rates centrally, including support

for truckload, intermodal, less-than-truckload, parcel, air, rail and ocean. Oracle

Key features

• Transportation procurement

• Transportation order

management

• Carrier and rate management

• Fleet and driver management

• Order and shipment planning

• Shipment booking and

tendering

• Visibility and event

management

• Freight audit and payment

• Strategic and tactical analyses

of transportation network

• Reporting, documentation,

and business intelligence

Key business benefits

• Reduced transportation and

logistics costs

• Increased customer service

levels

• Business process automation

• Increased supply chain

performance and reliability

• Rapidly evaluate supply chain

options

• Improve supply chain agility

• Build supply chain resilience

• Improved environmental

sustainability

• Greater business process

flexibility and adaptability

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Transportation Management supports full “sell” side rating for logistics service

providers and other companies who provide transportation services.

Shipment management: Plan and execute shipments for maximum operational

efficiency. Automated decision support for a full range of transportation

scenarios from simple, direct shipments to those involving multiple legs and

multiple modes. Decision support for least cost carrier, mode and service level,

application of routing guides and core carrier programs (i.e., carrier

commitments). In addition, Oracle Transportation Management provides robust

functionality to manage exceptions during execution (e.g., tracking planned vs.

actual, diverting shipments, and expediting delivery).

Booking and tendering: Collaborate with transportation service providers using

multiple communication formats – email, web, mobile device, and XML. Share

transportation plans and manage service provider responses (e.g. conditional

bookings, tender acceptance). Automated support for multiple types of tender

processes (e.g. sequential tendering, broadcast tendering).

Visibility and event management: Proactively manage the lifecycle of orders

and shipments through automated milestone monitoring. Automatically

expedite shipments when pickup confirmations have not been received within a

specified tolerance interval. Receive status updates from transportation service

providers using multiple communication formats – web, XML, mobile phone or

tablet.

Business process automation: Maximize productivity by automating processes

using unique workflow agent technology. Workflow agents enable companies to

model simple or complex processes to improve efficiency. For example,

automatically re- plan shipments based on related order changes; or notify

involved parties of delayed shipments.

Freight payment, billing and claims: Eliminate unnecessary charges and

automate the time consuming and error prone processes of freight payment,

customer billing, and managing freight claims. Using actual shipment data

captured throughout the transportation lifecycle, the Freight Payment, Billing

and Claims capability of Oracle Transportation Management ensures that

companies are paying, billing, and tracking only the transportation services

provided. For more information, refer to the Freight Payment, Billing and Claims

data sheet.

Transportation intelligence: Create a transportation dashboard for operational

and strategic performance indicators by leveraging the operational data stored in

Oracle Transportation Management. By taking operational data and converting it

into meaningful information, one can avoid future inefficiencies and make

changes to plans and parameters that are causing unsatisfactory results. The

transportation intelligence capability of Oracle Transportation Management

eliminates the need for a separate, siloed data warehouse in support of

transportation metrics. For more information, refer to the Transportation

Intelligence data sheet.

Forwarding and brokerage operations: Automates the freight forwarding and

brokerage processes used by logistics service providers to improve process

Related products

Oracle Transportation

Management is a key component

of Oracle Cloud Supply Chain

Management solutions that work

together to provide with a broad

array of capabilities:

• Oracle Global Trade

Management

• Oracle Order

Management

• Oracle Inventory

Management

• Oracle Warehouse

Management

• Oracle Internet of Things

applications

• Oracle Intelligent Track and

Trace

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efficiency and profitability while improving the service delivered to their

customers. The forwarding and brokerage operations capability of Oracle

Transportation Management provides complete support for the following

processes: quoting, job management and consol management.

! Reporting & document management: Oracle Transportation Management

utilizes Oracle Analytics Publisher to create reports and documents. Examples of

standard reports and documents include: cost savings, projected late orders,

carrier performance by lane, bill of lading, commercial invoice, and packing list.

! Integration with Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) and Oracle Cloud Supply

Chain Management (SCM) applications: OTM and EBS integration supports

synchronization of sales order and shipment data. OTM and Oracle Cloud SCM

sample integrations are available through Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC). OIC

process flow templates include pre-defined flows such as transportation

planning and execution, export documentation and order and shipping

compliance. It also includes automated provisioning, back-up, patches, and

upgrades, with a comprehensive library of adapters/APIs for Oracle and third-

party applications.

The power of a complete transportation solution

Oracle delivers the industry’s broadest and deepest transportation management

platform, and customers can derive additional benefits from related product options,

including:

! Transportation Operational Planning: Apply specific business rules and logic in

conjunction with powerful algorithms and optimization engines to optimize

orders and shipments based on cost, service level, and asset utilization.

Scenarios for multi-stop consolidation, pooling, cross docking and three-

dimensional load configuration are supported. Manage dock appointments for

greater warehouse efficiency with advanced scheduling and collaboration

capabilities. For more information, refer to the Transportation Operational

Planning data sheet.

! Transportation Sourcing: Utilize sophisticated optimization algorithms to

model sourcing rules and constraints to minimize costs while streamlining

the procurement process for transportation services. The Transportation

Sourcing capability of Oracle Transportation Operational Planning utilizes

historical shipment data to build bid projects and then seamlessly turns

awarded bids into executable rates. It also provides functionality to support

the task of rate maintenance. Together these capabilities serve to greatly

enhance the accuracy of a bid project as well as reduce the time and

overhead it takes to manage the procurement cycle. For more information,

refer to the Transportation Operational Planning data sheet.

! Cooperative Routing: Strategically examine and optimize the use of third-

party carrier and internal fleet resources in the supply chain. Identify

historical shipping patterns and determining optimal asset utilization via

efficient lane combinations of freight (i.e., cooperative routes). This strategic

plan is utilized within Oracle Transportation Management's operational

planning process, ensuring that the fleet and carrier resources are deployed

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properly, and the benefits are realized. For more information, refer to the

Transportation Cooperative Routing data sheet.

! Fleet Management: Manage private fleet and common carrier networks on a

single platform for increased asset utilization, lower transportation costs and

reduced environmental impact. Oracle Fleet Management provides support for

all aspects of managing a fleet for shippers with a private or dedicated fleet and

logistics service providers who employ their own assets in providing services to

their customers. Business functions supported include: driver and equipment

assignment, dispatch, asset tracking and event management, and financial

settlement for driver payroll, supplier payment and customer billing. For more

information, refer to Oracle Fleet Management data sheet.

! Logistics Network Modeling: Provides high-fidelity scenario analyses, all using

your real-world, operation data and constraints. Intrinsic to Oracle

Transportation Management, the analysis is performed using the rich

operational details of your transportation network and your rules and policies,

and uses the very same optimization and planning algorithms that you employ in

your transportation operations. This leads to highly accurate results showing you

the actual impact of the changes to your operations. Since everything is in the

context of your actual operational network, identified changes/responses are

easily deployed as needed. For more information, refer to Oracle Logistics

Network Modeling data sheet.

! Logistics Digital Assistant: Get real-time access to order status and shipment

tracking with updated location and ETA information from Oracle Transportation

Management. The digital assistant is able to receive and respond to inquiries

instantly and 24/7. It enables companies to reduce support expenditure,

improve customer satisfaction, and increase supply chain visibility by leveraging

new channels for communication.

! Logistics Machine Learning: Obtain an accurate estimated time of arrival (ETA)

using machine learning capabilities in OTM. Leverage industry leading algorithm

and infrastructure, create business-specific machine learning models, get full

insight into model statistics, and configure automatic workflows to predict ETA

for shipments in everyday transportation management processes.

! Mobile App: Put the power of OTM into the hands of users via their phone or

other mobile device. Both service providers and drivers in your private or

dedicated fleet can leverage the easy-to-use OTM Mobile app to accept/reject

shipment tenders, confirm assignments, enter shipment events, collect

signatures, capture images, manage documents, and much more. The app is

highly configurable and supports both iOS and Android operating systems.

Unlock the business value of a best-in-class trade and

transportation platform

Oracle offers a holistic approach to logistics management using a single system

approach. With Oracle Transportation Management and Oracle Global Trade

Management, Oracle provides visibility to trade and transportation order and

shipment data in one application. This unified platform enables process synergies

that are often difficult to achieve with separate and independent products. It

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becomes easier to produce data and documents, allowing trade and transportation

teams to work off a single source of truth and maintain complete visibility over

shipments. A robust supply chain event management and workflow engine allows

companies and their trading partners to effectively control and execute cross-

functional logistics processes.

Complete trade and transportation lifecycle support: Together, Oracle

Transportation Management and Oracle Global Trade Management support the full

lifecycle of cross-border shipments and manage all the aspects of moving goods

across trade boundaries in a seamless and logical manner. The solution can be easily

configured and customized by the user, and ensures goods are not sent to the port

unless trade documents are in order by generating and filing the proper customs

documents.

Document management: Determine and produce the necessary trade

documents and certificates for each transaction. Validate the availability of key

data elements. Use auto-assignment logic to help populate missing fields. With

both Oracle Transportation Management and Oracle Global Trade Management

it is easy to produce documents that require both trade and transportation data

to complete and produce.

Shared data model, workflow, and services: Data objects are shared between

Oracle Transportation Management and Oracle Global Trade Management

allowing trade and transportation teams to work off a single source of truth and

maintain complete visibility over the shipment as it progresses. Shared workflow

and services allow for execution of cross-functional processes and seamless

sharing of documents and information.

Figure 1. Oracle Transportation and Global Trade Management features and capabilities

With this powerful combination, improve customer service, reduce costs and achieve

higher productivity by automating business processes within your global logistics

network, while ensuring compliance, and accelerating customs processes.

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