What is a TVMS?
Everysens' TVMS (Transportation Visibility & Management System) is a collaborative platform designed to help shippers manage their rail operations from end to end. By integrating all stakeholders, it ensures seamless coordination, minimizing extra costs and reducing the risk of transport failures.
Leveraging artificial intelligence, machine learning, data analytics, and GPS tracking, the TVMS provides complete and accurate rail visibility. Acting as the control tower of rail freight operations, it enables real-time monitoring, predictive analytics, and proactive decision-making to optimize rail freight management.
What differentiates a TVMS from a TMS?
A TMS (Transport Management System) helps businesses strategize, execute, and optimize freight transport while ensuring regulatory compliance and managing essential documentation like consignment notes.
A TVMS builds on this by providing end-to-end rail freight management, enabling shippers, freight forwarders, and railway companies to plan, optimize, and execute transport seamlessly. It leverages predictive analytics to anticipate disruptions, suggest corrective actions, and refine transport schedules. This proactive approach improves operational efficiency, reduces costs, and ensures reliable delivery performance. In a nutshell: the TVMS is your control tower for rail freight operaitons.
Unlike a generic TMS, a TVMS is specifically tailored for rail freight operations. It optimizes processes from order placement to invoicing, ensuring efficient and streamlined management of rail transport.
How can a TVMS benefit shippers?
A TVMS transforms rail freight management by:
- Enhancing collaboration: Replacing scattered phone calls and Excel sheets with a centralized, interactive platform for seamless communication.
- Optimizing service quality: Providing real-time GPS tracking, geofencing, fleet inventory, and reliable ETAs for better service level agreements.
- Automating transport planning: AI-driven algorithms refine schedules based on cost, carbon footprint, and customer priorities, enhancing overall rail freight management.
- Increasing productivity: Automating routine tasks such as contract management and consignment note creation, allowing teams to focus on higher-value activities.
- Improving environmental impact management: Optimizing loading, route selection, and carbon footprint comparison to support sustainability goals.
- Enhancing P&L visibility: Consolidating financial and operational data to track costs, analyze variances, and manage transportation budgets efficiently.
- Maximizing fleet efficiency: Reducing wagon rental costs by up to 10% through better utilization tracking, maintenance monitoring, and mileage optimization.
A TVMS ensures better collaboration, greater visibility, smarter automation, and improved environmental performance for shippers.
In summary, a TVMS is a game-changer for rail freight management. It empowers shippers with enhanced efficiency, transparency, and sustainability in their rail logistics operations, ultimately driving better performance and cost savings.
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