Cardinal Logistics' WMS and TMS: A Business Process Analysis Report

This report provides an analysis of Cardinal Logistics' Warehouse Management System (WMS) and Transportation Management System (TMS). It details the capabilities of the Automated Inventory Management system, emphasizing its time-saving benefits, reduction of cancelled orders, and data accuracy. The report also examines Cardinal Logistics' TMS, highlighting its role in planning, optimization, and execution of goods movement, integration with enterprise systems (including order management, CRM, and SRM), and its contribution to a more controlled inventory management system and visible supply chain management. The advantages of the TMS include reduced invoice errors, added intelligence, and strategies for cost reduction and service improvement. The report also touches upon 3PL business processes, differentiating between providers with transportation and warehouse facilities and those offering comprehensive supply chain management services. The report concludes with a list of references related to inventory management, logistics, and supply chain management.

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CARDINAL LOGISTICS AND THEIR WMS AND TMS SYSTEMS

CARDINAL WMS TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM
• Cardinal Logistics usually utilizes
the Automated Inventory
Management for its warehouse
management system or WMS.
• The product has huge capability
about the photography skills.
• Has a benefit of saving time
immensely even with huge
number of data entry

• It can also help in the reduction of cancelled orders .
• The accuracy of data with the utilisation of automated inventory
management system helps the warehouse in such a way that the
manual typing procedure that used almost 3 to 4 hours can be
reduced
CARDINAL WMS TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM

CARDINAL LOGISTICS TMS SYSTEM
• The transportation
management system or TMS
that Cardinal logistics used
help the organisation with the
planning, optimisation and
execution of the physical
movement of utilised goods

• Integrate extremely well with any enterprise including their order
management system, warehouse management system and the
customer relationship management or CRM and supplier relationship
management or SRM system.
• So much more controlled inventory management system and visible
supply chain management with the utilisation of transportation
management system that Cardinal Logistics puts into action
CARDINAL LOGISTICS TMS SYSTEM

• Reduced invoice errors which happens to be extending from the
utilisation of order processing and freight payment such that the
users.
• Added intelligence with the technology followed by the TMS
software.
• Necessary mitigation strategies for reduction of cost and
improvement of service delivery at the same time creating report
controlling every discrepancy, reporting every discrepancy and
monitoring them as well.
CARDINAL LOGISTICS TMS SYSTEM

• The transport management system also has its several advantages
including the different mishandling of the optimised processes due to
the automated and computerized systems and all of the identified
problems for TMS can also occur deprecating the automated
warehouse management system both of them are automated in
nature
CARDINAL LOGISTICS TMS SYSTEM

3PL BUSINESS PROCESSES
• Neither be a single provider that has transportation facilities and
warehouse storage facilities or it can also help in having a system
white bundle of services that can handle the throughout supply chain
management for any organisation. With simple example this can be
understandable.
• There can be many different varieties of the third-party logistics
organisations and varieties of services that the provides the other
organisations

3PL BUSINESS PROCESSES AND EDI

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