Transportation Management Report 2011 - Capgemini

Organizational
The core processes or selected
products of a company can be
addressed one after another
depending on the benefits and risks
associated with them. An example
for an air and ocean LSP might be to
arrange their processes in ascending
order of complexity, i.e:
• Air freight import
• Air freight export
• Sea freight import
• Sea freight export
A further level of segmentation
could be introduced by considering
product and services offerings. For
example, commodity products could
be targeted first, followed by more
complex products in a subsequent
phase.
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Functional domains
The functional domains of TMS offer
another degree of flexibility. In this
context, it is possible to distinguish
between core functionality and
supporting functionality.
For instance, your TMS could initially
be implemented for purchase order
management purposes only. The
transportation core functions would
then be phased in at a later stage. A
typical phased approach could look
as follows:
• Phase 1: Master Data cleansing
and Purchase Order Management
functionality
• Phase 2: Resource Management
• Phase 3: Change Management,
Subcontractor Management
• Phase 4: Core TMS functionality
Geographical coverage
Geographical coverage offers another
option for giving the structure some
flexibility. When selecting the target
locations (regions, countries, sites),
it is necessary to look for the right
balance between risk mitigation,
leverage of business benefits, and
gaining rollout and transformation
momentum within the company.
Optimizing the financial
investment flow
To ensure that you can evaluate your
migration options properly you need
to determine the business benefits as
well as the cost of implementation
and migration on a work package
level.
Varying the migration path within
the given constraints allows you to
consider individual options with
respect to the required investment as
well as the resulting business benefits
over time. This allows you to achieve
a cash-flow structure that meets the
company’s individual constraints.
Conclusion
Logistics specialists are faced with the
problem of modernizing an inflexible
application landscape while under
considerable budget constraints.
Capgemini can support you with
state-of-the-art methodology and
long-term experience to define the
right transformation approach for a
phased introduction of a TMS by:
Maximizing the use of packagebased
sector-specific solutions and
combining these with individual
elements where required to create a
cost-optimized solution
Using robust architecture and
application components to ensure
sustainability, flexibility, and a
significantly reduced time to market
when integrating future requirements.
Developing a thorough design that
will ensure high flexibility in shaping
the migration path and thus help in
optimizing the investment flow/ROI
to meet the company’s requirements.