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  • Transport Management

Transport management for a connected execution control process

Plan, coordinate, and execute transports in one continuous workflow across your supply chain
Connect transport planning, execution, and freight processes in one platform to reduce manual effort and improve shipment visibility.

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What is transport management in manufacturing supply chains?

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.

The Challenge

Disconnected transport execution creates avoidable delays, blind spots, and cost leakage

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

The Solution

Transform transport management into a connected execution and control process

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.

Transport planning, carrier coordination, and execution steering

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.

Key Features
  • Transport order creation and pre-filled transport notifications
  • Rule-based and cost-based carrier selection
  • Auctions, tendering, and load building
Impact
  • Lower manual planning effort
  • Improved carrier utilization and selection quality
  • Consistent execution across plants and partners
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Track & Trace, Dock / Slot & Exception Management

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.

Key Features
  • Carrier status tracking with exception alerting
  • Real-time track and trace with mobile status capture
  • Dock and slot management for inbound coordination
Impact
  • Earlier detection of transport disruptions
  • Faster response to ETA and milestone deviations
  • Improved inbound flow and reduced congestion

Freight Cost Management & Transport Analytics

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.

Key Features
  • Freight cost calculation and automated invoice checking
  • Self-billing and freight claiming
  • Carrier performance and transport analytics
Impact
  • Reduced administrative effort in freight settlement
  • Better control over discrepancies and claims
  • Stronger data basis for cost and network decisions
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Gain measurable control over transport cost, efficiency, and execution speed

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Bring transport planning, visibility, and freight control onto one platform

Build a transport process that gives your teams earlier warning, better carrier coordination, stronger cost control, and clearer visibility from transport order to freight settlement.

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