What is Maritime Transportation Management (MTM)?

• Maritime Transportation Management is a subset of supply chain management concerning transportation operations.
• A legacy order of processing and warehouse/distribution module.

Four key processes of Maritime Transportation Management:

1. Planning and decision making – MTM will define the most efficient transport schemes according to given parameters, which have a lower or higher importance according to the user policy: transport cost, shorter lead-time, fewer stops possible to ensure quality, flows regrouping coefficient, etc.
2. Transportation Execution – MTM will allow for the execution of the transportation plan such as carrier rate acceptance, carrier dispatching, etc..
3. Transport follow-up – MTM will allow following any physical or administrative operation regarding transportation: trace ability of transport event by event (shipping from A, arrival at B, customs clearance, etc.), editing of reception, custom clearance, invoicing and booking documents, sending of transport alerts (delay, accident, non-forecast stops…)
4. Measurement – MTM have or need to have a logistics key performance indicator (KPI) reporting function for transport.

Various functions of a MTM include but not limited to:

• Planning and optimizing of terrestrial transport rounds
• Inbound and outbound transportation mode and transportation provider selection
• Management of motor carrier, rail, air and maritime transport
• Real time transportation tracking
• Service quality control in the form of KPI's
• Vehicle Load and Route optimization
• Transport costs and scheme simulation
• Shipment batching of orders
• Cost control, KPI (Key performance indicators ) reporting and statistics