Coordinate transport planning, carrier activities, and shipment execution across your manufacturing supply chain. Reduce manual coordination and gain greater control over transport operations and freight costs.
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Transport management refers to the planning, coordination, execution, and monitoring of physical shipments across the supply chain. It connects demand signals, carrier coordination, shipment tracking, and freight settlement into one continuous process. This enables manufacturers to improve visibility, reduce manual effort, and manage transport execution more proactively.
Manual transport orders, inconsistent master data, and fragmented systems often break the process long before a shipment is late. When transport execution is not linked to demand, ASN, goods receipt, and freight processes, teams lack early visibility and spend time fixing issues instead of preventing them.
Without a unified process, transport management becomes reactive, error-prone, and difficult to scale across plants, suppliers, and logistics partners.
Fragmented planning inputs
Transport orders are created manually without reliable demand or ASN integration
Limited shipment visibility
Status updates are inconsistent and arrive too late to act effectively
Reactive exception handling
Teams spend time chasing updates instead of managing critical deviations
Disconnected cost control
Freight settlement and carrier performance are managed outside execution workflows
Transport Management is both about visibility and the operational process of planning, organizing, and executing physical transports. SupplyOn helps teams manage transport orders, coordinate carriers, steer execution, and connect transport status with the broader supply chain process, while increasing visibility into their transports down to material level.
SupplyOn supports the operational handling of transports by helping teams manage transport orders, assign and coordinate carriers, organize execution, and monitor whether transport is running according to plan.
SupplyOn combines carrier status tracking, exception alerting, mobile status capture, dock and slot management, and real-time tracking in one environment. One Track standardizes status information from different transport providers and passes it on in a consistent format, while dock and slot management helps reduce waiting times, congestion, and coordination effort at the plant.
SupplyOn extends transport execution into freight cost calculation, freight invoice check, self-billing, freight claiming, carrier performance analysis, deviation tracking, and transport analytics. It also supports usage analytics for FPA and ASN, transport volume forecasting, sea freight visibility, and network optimization decisions.
Transport Management is one of the few modules in the source set with highly specific public value proof. The strongest ROI signals are tied to transport planning efficiency, exception handling, shipment visibility, freight auditing, and automated cost control.
Up to 50% lower process costs
Reduce manual effort across transport planning, coordination, and execution tasks
Up to 50% higher planning efficiency
Improve utilization, reduce errors, and accelerate transport planning cycles
Up to 75% faster exception response
Identify and resolve deviations earlier with automated alerts and standardized status data
Up to 95% automated freight invoice checks
Cut auditing effort and reduce process costs in freight billing by up to 50%
Create a transport process that not only reacts faster but consistently operates with lower cost, higher transparency, and greater control across your network.
Transport Management in SupplyOn is an integrated process that connects transport planning, execution, track & trace, carrier collaboration, dock and slot management, freight cost management, and analytics. It is designed to work with the broader Supply Chain Collaboration process from order through delivery, goods receipt, and settlement.
SupplyOn supports inbound and outbound transport on one platform. The materials describe inbound flows connecting customer, supplier, and logistics service provider through FPA, ASN, status, goods receipt, and invoice creation, as well as outbound flows that connect customer, end customer, and LSP through delivery information, transport orders, and status updates.
In the uploaded transport materials, FPA is the pre-filled transport notification used in the inbound process. It helps create consistent, demand-based transport requests, reduces additional communication channels, and supports synchronization between supplier, customer, and LSP.
SupplyOn provides carrier status tracking, One Track real-time visibility, mobile status reporting, ETA prediction, deviation alerting, and milestone monitoring across transport providers. It can standardize status information from EDI, web services, apps, and other sources and pass it on to ERP systems and other target environments in a consistent format.
SupplyOn helps reduce freight cost through load optimization, carrier selection, transport consolidation, and network optimization. It also reduces admin cost with freight cost calculation, automated invoice checking, self-billing, freight claiming, and analytics for reliability and performance. Public materials cite up to 50% process cost reduction in transport-related logistics tasks and up to 50% process cost reduction in freight auditing and billing.
Beyond planning, SupplyOn includes track & trace, dock and slot management, POD archive, quality reporting, carrier status tracking, mobile status capture, usage analytics, transport volume forecasting, and sea freight visibility. The platform also supports container pre-booking, hub integration, and multi-leg transports.
See how SupplyOn can help connect transport planning, shipment visibility, and freight cost processes across your manufacturing supply chain.
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