Celesta TMS transport management system
With Celesta TMS our customers in manufacturing industries, in retail trade and in logistics are increasing productivity in their transport and logistics operations.
Celesta TMS is a real time planning and monitoring tool allowing instant communications with your fleet.
Celesta TMS system includes
- Celesta Plan TMS for office users
- Celesta Mobile driver application
Celesta TMS
Planning:
- Plan your orders to loads or routes.
- Automatic, semi automatic or manual route planning based on planning areas and on available transport capacity
- Creating or modifying loads / routes on a map view by drag-and-drop
- Filter and sort orders easily with user definable filters.
- Assign the loads to transport companies or to a truck.
- Select a transport company, which offers the least expensive transport
- Review the transport costs from your transport partners.
- Maintain the price lists and create the payments for your transport partners.
- Track your trucks in real time in map view.
- Each truck has color coded symbol e.g logged in, driving, stopped..
- You can see multiple loads / routes simultaneously on the map and on a list view.
- Each loading and unloading place on the route has a symbol (planned, in transport, unloading, ready)
- Delay on the route - if the delay tracking is set on, you get notified if one of the routes is delayed.
- Expections reported by the driver are flagged to the transport planner.
- In a history view you can see where the truck has been driving and being stopped.
- View the pictures or digital signatures sent by the drives from loading, unloading or from expections.
- Send email or text message to your customers automatically of the estimated delivery time window.
- If the delivery gets delayed, communicate that with your customer.
- Send the transport manifest to your customers with their digital signatures of delivery acceptance.
- Set up a customer portal for your customers to make new orders, view their statuses and review order history and documents.
- Create and update price lists including distance and volume based pricing components.
- Celesta TMS calculates automatically the transport cost for each load.
- Check and accept the payments to your transport partners.
- Fleet management: capacity and availability of your fleet.
- Driver application can process multiple work flows for different types of transport orders. They can include some of the following steps:
- The driver can view in advance the planned loads / routes and their loading and unloading points.
- Booking / reserving a route / transport
- Setting the starting time for the route
- Initiating the ETA time window calculation for each delivery points.
- Starting the route
- Starting loading - finishing loading
- Starting driving (automatically after loading finished)
- Starting unloading / delivery
- Finishing unloading / delivery
- Taking the digital signature from a customer on the screen of mobile device.
- Initiate a phone call to the customer's phone number
- Starting the Google Maps with the customer's address
- Scanning the bar or QR codes of kollis or pallets with the camera or with a built in laser scanner.
- Taking pictures of loading or unloading sites and of exceptions or damages.
- Record the costs and driving distances
- Send and receive messages with the transport planners
Real time communications
All in one application
Proof-of-delivery time stamps and signatures, exceptions, costs and direct messaging with customers
ETA
Calculate Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) for each unloading or delivery addresses when starting the load / route. Send delivery time window and updates as an email or text message to your customer.
Track your delivery in real time
The driver application is sending GPS data continuously. Share the approaching delivery truck position on the map with the customer.
Item level tracking
Read the bar/QR code or RFID tag on packets or on pallets when loading and when delivering to the customer.
Record damages of the items by taking a photo with the camera.
Why to choose Celesta TMS:
Increased productivity
Quick deployment
The driver application for Android devices installs from a web link or from Play Store.
Easy-to-use
The driver application is quick to learn and very easy to use. Different language versions can be supported.
Reliability
The application is tested thoroughly and it is working reliably. The application version can easily be updated over-the-air to keep it up to date with most recent new features.
Off line operations
When going outside mobile network coverage the Celesta driver application is still operational in off line mode. All the transactions are saved and resend when back in the network coverage.
Customizable
Application can support multiple work flows for diffent types of transport orders.
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Questions?
If you have any questions of our products or services, do not hesitate to contact us.
We are happy to give you a live demo.