Pune based Icertis, cloud independent software vendor (ISV) and the provider of enterprise solutions in the Microsoft Cloud, has developed a product for transportation management system to cater to all transportation management requirements and emerging supply chain execution challenges.
Named as Icertis Transportation Management System (ITMS) is a product suite developed to volatility in fuel prices, unpredictable capacity requirements, increasing customer demand for improved serviceability, growing modern trade, and changing regulatory environment are the key concerns for transportation operations in today’s marketplace.
TMS recently won the “Innovative Software Solution in Transportation” award at the sixth Express, Logistics & Supply Chain (ELSC) Awards held in Mumbai.
“ITMS is the only transportation solution in the market that is architected ground up in the cloud and meets all transportation requirements of cargo, people and fleet on one platform. The system leverages the true potential of the cloud to deliver a best of breed, flexible, agile and transparent TMS. With its high impact capabilities and quick time to deployment, ITMS helps businesses significantly reduce their cost of transportation operations,” said Samir Bodas, CEO and co- founder Icertis.
He added, "Icertis TMS offers functionality footprint across planning and execution, a thorough visibility into operations, data driven decision making, and an integrated fleet management capability."
According to Icertis Indian trasport business system is still not ready to adopt technology for the daily operations due to high operating costs and time required for the reimplementation of the software. Also, the mid-size businesses are not organised and over 40 per cent amount is spent on fuel. According to Bodas, by 2015, the market for this business is of $500 million and currently which is only $ 100 million.
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The product’s ‘born in the cloud’ transportation planning engine provides an advanced streaming optimization capability at enterprise scale. Also notable amongst the array of features offered by ITMS is its modern user interface which is highly intuitive and extremely easy to use.
The interface allows for quick adoption across the end user community to make full use of the functional depth of the product.
"Microsoft believes in the power of cloud computing and is delighted that Icertis has selected Azure as their platform of choice for Icertis Transportation Management System. The growing breadth and extent of partner solutions on Azure is exciting for customers and their potential”, said Pat Schlight, Senior Director - US Azure Partnerships.