TRANSPORT MANAGEMENT

Cambridge’s transport management and Freight workstream provides application development and maintenance services for various bespoke application and leading products on TMS and Freight Forwarding function.

Cambridge has been involved in enabling Transportation Management processes that can offer higher value supply chain services from Procurement, shipment planning, Execution & Appointment Scheduling, visibility and the financial settlements, Business intelligence and supplier inbound, realize increased profit margins, and deliver the level of service your customers demand

Various functions of a TMS ecompassing the IT service arena includes:

• Planning and optimising of terrestrial transport rounds
• Transportation mode and carrier selection
• Management of air and maritime transport
• Real time vehicles tracking
• Service quality control
• Vehicle Load and Route optimization
• Transport costs and scheme simulation
• Shipment batching

With core strength in Freight Forwarding, Cambridge’s services on Freight forwarding application included the following processes. The application management and support services included both legacy product and bespoke application development.

• Research and plan optimal shipment routes
• Coordinate packing, shipping, delivery and/or warehousing
• Obtain, check, and prepare documentation to meet customs and insurance requirements, packing specifications, and compliance with regulatory and fiscal guidelines
• Provide consolidation services to small shippers without dedicated capabilities, as well as to shippers of all sizes that have opted to outsource all or part of their logistics functions
• Arrange for insurance and assist clients with the handling of claims
• Arrange payment of freight and other charges and/or collect payments on behalf of the client
• Perform real-time tracking and tracing of goods
• Act as a broker/advisor in customs negotiations
• Coordinate arrangements with couriers and specialists for special (for example, hand-carry) services.

Cambridge has been instrumental in ensuring statutory compliances like US Embargo, US Customs, Cargo 2000 and many more.

Cambridge’s has proven demonstration of over 100 man years supply chain integration and visibility services to leading 3PL.

Cambridge’s core competency in application management, consulting and implementation services include third party products like OTM(formerly GLog).

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