Solutions should not be more complicated than the problems they are trying to solve!

Bohemia, NY – TransportGistics, a transportation management solutions company, has defined a short and longer-term solution to the transportation vulnerability issues that arose from the September 11 terrorist attack. Presented in a White Paper to the DOT, the solution addresses the key areas that comprise threats to the nation’s vast commercial transportation infrastructure, including all aspects of logistics for the tracking assets between and through pickup and delivery points.  As implementation begins, the solution will improve logistics security and reduce the vulnerability to accidental or intentional disruption of all commercial transportation services while providing significant benefit to commercial users

“It is important to use existing technologies and widespread commercial needs so implementation can be fast and effective,” said Alan Miller, President of TransportGistics, Inc. “The key is to strike a balance between our individual freedoms and the issues we need to address as a result of the September 11 attack as well as between commercial utility and Federal objectives.”

The TransportGistics approach is a uniquely empowering, Internet-enabled transportation management utility that transforms the cost-hungry process of logistics into superior customer service as it substantially reduces cost and exposure to a shipper for the private sector while improving transaction management, transaction visibility and transaction data for the public sector. The approach includes both short and long-term solutions.

Both solutions address the inefficiencies in transportation management, simplifying the functions to be executed, making transportation information immediately visible to all parties involved in the transaction process, improving communications, and increasing productivity.  They also address five key areas of vulnerability (driver, vehicle, freight, location, alerting) by improving visibility, planning, reacting, dispatching, automated data collection, and optimization. They drive information to the appropriate party by capturing information in the transaction stream and achieving the necessary objectives of predicting, detecting, and alerting.

“The key to any program is visibility and full transparency of all parts of the supply chain,” said Miller. “Most companies can take advantage of the simple solutions immediately such as extending the bar code concept that is so familiar at check out counters and in warehouses. It is important for all companies to know what tools are currently available and are immediately able to be implemented.”

In the longer term, shippers must implement their own risk and vulnerability assessment that effectively identifies areas of potential problems and develops contingencies. “This is an on-going protocol that most companies should be doing as a regular exercise,” says Miller. “Flying blind has never been the answer for long term success.”

TransportGistics, Inc., is a handpicked team of transportation and logistics experts with roots that reach into all aspects of the Supply Chain.  It specializes in "simpler is better" solutions that help companies manage and harness the supply chain and its wealth of information both in improving markets and in improving transactions."