Transportation Technology Tools and Services

At Meridian IQ, we’re all about making logistics management easier and more efficient for our clients. That’s why, unlike traditional licensed software solutions, our technology tools are web-native. Partners at any point along your supply chain can access our solutions via the Internet. With Meridian IQ technology tools, there’s no software to purchase or maintain. Efficiency is built in to every solution, allowing you more time to focus on your core business functions.

Our technology tools include:

PowerTMS™ – built for and accessed through the Internet, PowerTMS allows you to automate key logistics management processes while improving connectivity and data flow with your plants, warehouses, suppliers, and transportation partners. Clients benefit through:

• Process automation and simplification

• Improvement in rate/contract compliance

• Enhanced visibility to orders and shipments

• Improved connectivity with suppliers and trade partners

PowerTMS has six functional areas:

• Order management – helps convert purchase order data into shipments and assigns the best carrier to meet customer requirements. You send orders to suppliers either as a batch or individually, indicating when they should be shipped or delivered. Then you can follow your orders through the shipment process, using the web applications.

• Shipment planning – the first step in optimizing your shipments to meet your business demands more efficiently

• Shipment optimization – uses carrier selection and management based on your business rules, timing requirements, and routing to deliver the most value for your shipping dollar.

• Shipment administration – provides visibility to shipment documentation, shipment execution, tracking, excepting resolution, and proof of delivery.

• Financial settlement – applications that audit invoices, resolve invoice discrepancies, simplify carrier remittance, and provide a consolidated invoice for all carriers.

• Reporting and analysis –provides valuable reports to aid in your daily operations planning and to quantify the value we provide.

Global Purchase Order Management – report what you want, when you want, to whoever you want including your customers, buying office, or trading partners.

Features:

• PO uploaded by customer in Excel/EDI format

• Interactive dialog between origins, destinations & customers

• Track POD & shipment details by PO #, HBL, Container #, Style #, Voyage Date, etc.

• Tailor-made shipment reports

• Consignee, buying house, destination agent, and other parties in the SCM process can gain instant access to the concerned shipment

Movement:

• Use the most cost efficient transport for each order

• Control cargo at origin to make sure late orders are a thing of the past

Visibility:

• Compare expected ship dates against actual

• Compare delivery dates against expected

• View by individual part number, PO sequence, style, customer, etc.

Track & Trace by:

• Customers

• Factory

• Style

• House number

• PO #

• Container #

• PAN #

• Shipment effective date

Performance:

• Accurately monitor the performance of new suppliers

• Monitor door-to-door transit times per factory

• Monitor the forwarder at origin and destination

• Inventory Control:

• Daily ‘real time’ stock control reports of all goods in transit

• Know ‘actual’ lead times by factory / origin country

• Prioritize deliveries by seeing everything ahead of time

Reporting:

• Late Shipment Report

• Expected Shipment Report

• Inbound Report

• Shipment Manifest Report

• Shipment Details Report

Web-enabled Power Tracking & Tracing – provides customers and their supply chain partners with the level of tracking information they require.