Why Carriers Choose TL2000 for IBM System i from TMW Systems
Technology for Today and Tomorrow
Investment protection:
First as AS/400 and now as System i, IBM's database and hardware technology has been a stable and robust enterprise platform for many years. Motor carriers of all sizes continue to thrive with their System i and TL2000.
Product advancement:
Regular software enhancements and version releases every 12 - 18 months, as well as mid-year PTF's (mid-version updates). Version 8 of TL2000 was introduced just this year.
Process integration:
Dispatch, payroll, maintenance, fuel services, profitability - all of your vital business data - is seamlessly integrated in a system that is also easy to use.
Robust and stable product:
TMW customers can continue to add and integrate new products and functionality without the need to keep patching up an old code base. Requires less IT maintenance from your organization.
Accuracy and Efficiency
Grow business without increasing staff:
Your employees can handle higher transaction volumes with increased efficiency. Time savings with automation and integration are realized in billing and settlements, dispatch, IT support, operations.
Data integrity:
Strict data continuity rules assure accurate, complete information - from order entry to billing and settlements - that helps you manage your business better.
Duplicate effort eliminated:
Our software design reduces error rate and increases business efficiency. Enter the order once and it's all done. TL2000 automatically provides the same information for dispatch, billing, G/L, AR, AP
Critical data is captured and tracked, not buried in notes:
Our software design and data granularity allows a higher degree of automation while ensuring the accuracy of information. Your AR, AP, billing and settlements - will all be right.
Reports that match throughout:
All departments - operations, AR, AP - run on the same information and can generate the right answers when reporting about your bottom line.
Financial Discipline
Forced balance accounting:
TL2000 will never close out of balance. No more one-sided G/L entries. You will have confidence in your numbers and you can go to the bank with them-- literally.
Real-time bottom line inquiry:
Accounting analysis and financial statements can be run over an open period any time of the month.
Flexible payment management:
Owner operators, contract carriers, agents -- pay them a flat fee, per mile, percent, load sharing -- all are handled as easily as paying a company driver.
Flexible collections management:
Run a collections report any time of the day and have a true, up-to-the-minute report that you can use to make your calls.
True multi-company architecture:
Ability to report on statistical benchmarks. Make better decisions faster by comparing results to preset benchmarks.
Working With A Trusted Partner
Longevity:
TMW has been serving the trucking industry for more than 25 years, with a history of stability, growth, accuracy and success.
Great support:
Your support team has an average of 15 years of experience in the trucking industry and 10 years working with TL2000 software.
Customer guidance:
TL2000 product development is guided through a Customer Steering Committee. As a customer, participation in this Committee empowers you to affect the development of the product that runs your business ... and to benefit from the ideas of other carriers like you trying to meet similar challenges.
Customer community:
For more than 20 straight years, TMW has sponsored the best User Group in the industry. What we now call TMW TransForum has become the single, best event to meet with hundreds of other forward-thinking carriers and learn best practices and new approaches to grow your business and benefit from the best in transportation technology.
