Thriving Brokers and Transportation Intermediaries Run TMW Today
TMW has the functionality that Brokers and Third-Party Logistics Service Providers demand to more efficiently cover loads, manage carriers, monitor order status, service customers and build their bottom line. These businesses thrive on relationships, transactional velocity and automation, especially around document handling.
TMW brokerage and logistics software provides the tools that speed up finding the right carrier, negotiating the right deal and maximizing margins, and help you to execute effectively, day after day. Our management reporting and business intelligence tools keep you on top of revenues, performance and productivity. Other TMW products
help you provide expanded customer service options, even track-and-trace, or build stronger relationships with your preferred carrier population. Features like these keep your business humming:
Multiple data-entry points for orders (keyed, spreadsheet, EDI, Load boards, etc.)
Streamlined new carrier entry, rapid and flexible
Integration with Internet load board services, such as TransCore DAT and Internet TruckStop
Extensive filtering of available equipment (type, location, rates, preferred destinations, etc)
Radius searches on a selected location to find listed carrier trucks closest to need
Proactively identify backhaul opportunities for your carriers
Present qualified loads to particular carriers and allow carriers to provide updates via the web
Auto-generated load confirmation forms
Extensive data ‘pops' to assure most profitable carrier selection (based on rates, locations, performance criteria, etc.)
Target Sell rates display, with DAWG alerts available on violated loads (i.e. A broker sold a $1,000 revenue load to a carrier for only $975; your target was $850)
Auto alert if carrier insurance and/or contract is about to or has expired
Simple dispatch module for your remote freight agents
Pay modules for third parties, such as agents, that administer multiple pay rates from load booking through settlements
Integration for servicing larger shippers or working with larger carriers (email, EDI, fax)
Integrated fax and email print/send capability
Integration with carrier safety and service rating info providers such as Carrier411 and CarrierWatch
Business logic that prevents load assignments when contract paperwork or info such as insurance coverage is missing or expired
Extensive reporting to track profitability by load, customer, broker, carrier, etc.
Commission structure support for internal brokers/agents
Store detailed pick-up directions/instructions per customer location that can be easily transmitted to a carrier
Quickly pull up contact info relevant to a particular load-customer and shipper; map current truck location or pickup / delivery locations

