In a world where logistics chains are becoming increasingly complex, smarter transport organization is no longer a luxury but a necessity. Efficiency, cost control, and flexibility are crucial to maintaining a competitive edge. Strategies like consolidation, groupage, and multistop are essential to optimize transport movements and avoid unnecessary costs.
With Adaption’s Transport Management System (TMS), you have full control over your transport processes, from route planning and execution to real-time tracking and reporting. Our TMS enables you to optimize routes, smartly combine loads, compare carriers, and accurately manage transport costs.
Thanks to seamless integration with Adaption’s Warehouse Management System (WMS) and Forwarding Management System (FMS), you have access to a powerful ecosystem for complete supply chain management. Your warehouse operations, transport planning, and international shipments are perfectly aligned.
But what do these commonly used terms really mean?
Consolidation involves combining multiple smaller shipments from different suppliers into one larger transport movement. This ensures trucks run fuller, routes are used more efficiently, and costs are reduced.
Main benefits:
Lower transport costs, more sustainable transport (fewer empty miles), faster delivery times.
Typical applications:
Goods flows from various production sites to one distribution center.
Our TMS automatically detects which shipments within a specific timeframe, region, or route can be consolidated. The system accounts for time windows, priorities, and loading capacities. It also generates all necessary transport documents and loading lists.
Lucas is a manufacturer of auto parts with multiple production sites across Europe. Daily, small quantities of materials need to be transported to a central assembly point.
Thanks to the integrated TMS, shipments from Germany, the Czech Republic, and Belgium are smartly consolidated into a single combined load. This means the carrier only makes one trip instead of three separate ones per day, resulting in cost savings and reduced CO₂ emissions.
Groupage involves combining various small shipments from different shippers into one freight load, often with different destinations. Groupage maximizes load capacity and is essential in the less-than-truckload (LTL) market.
Main benefits:
Reduced transport costs per shipment, flexibility in sending small volumes, faster transit times.
Typical applications:
Small export shipments, international transport, e-commerce fulfillment.
Our TMS automatically links loads to existing groupage routes. It considers loading capacity, urgency, and cost distribution. Cross-docking and hub management are fully supported, including track and trace and digital consignment notes (e-CMR).
Julia is a logistics service provider handling hundreds of small packages from various webshops daily. Thanks to the integrated TMS, orders are automatically assigned to groupage routes to distribution hubs in Belgium, France, and Germany.
This smart groupage planning enables Julia to guarantee faster delivery times while reducing transport costs per package.
Multistop transport uses one truck to make multiple loading or unloading stops during a single trip. This transport type is ideal when deliveries are spread across multiple customers or suppliers need to be visited.
Main benefits:
Better use of transport capacity, lower cost per stop, flexible delivery options for customers.
Typical applications:
Retail distribution, e-commerce deliveries, regional distribution routes.
With advanced route planning, our TMS optimizes the stop sequence, accounts for time windows (e.g., store opening hours), and minimizes travel time. Planning can be easily adjusted for real-time traffic or last-minute changes.
A large chain of hardware stores receives weekly deliveries from one central warehouse. Thanks to the TMS, deliveries are smartly bundled and scheduled as multistop trips: the truck visits 8 branches on a logical route, taking delivery preferences and opening hours into account. As a result, the number of trips has dropped significantly, and branch staff are better supported because deliveries arrive exactly within the agreed time windows.
Adaption offers a powerful solution for transport optimization with its TMS. By smartly supporting consolidation, groupage, and multistop, you not only reduce costs and increase efficiency but also work toward a more sustainable supply chain.
Thanks to integration with our Warehouse Management System (WMS) and Forwarding Management System (FMS), you benefit from real-time insight into your entire logistics chain, from inventory management to freight invoicing.
Want to reduce errors, shorten lead times, and optimize your logistics processes? Discover the power of Adaption TMS and experience the benefits of advanced transport optimalisation for yourself.
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