What's
Driving Interest in On-Demand TMS?
For some, a simple answer is
better, and the impact on connectivity and infrastructure
requirements must be considered. But users must
balanced short term and longer term consideration
By Stephen Craig Erik Markeset,
CP Consulting
There clearly is an increased
interest in on-demand/hosted/ASP'ed Transportation
Management System (TMS). Why is this happening?
From Working with many companies looking at
or deploying TMS, our belief is that there are
several factors driving this interest:
Some of the on-demand offerings are to an extent,
simpler, which appeals to some users. For example,
some on-demand TMS products may lack mult-mode,
mult-leg international functionality. But, there
are a many companies that don't need that functionality,
either because they aren't shipping like that
or because when they do they use forwarders.
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