Deliver goods on time and on budget with our global TMS system

Manage and optimize transport modes, carriers, routes, and logistics with the Infor Nexus Global Transportation Management System – for efficient and cost-effective product delivery worldwide.

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What is a transportation management system? Understand the technology – and explore capabilities, industry examples, and more.

TMS 101

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Overview

Optimize global logistics with world-class TMS software

Streamline your transportation sourcing, planning, and execution with the Infor Nexus Global Transportation Management System. Our platform offers seamless multimodal planning and execution. Control transportation costs, optimize processes, reduce carbon emissions, and more.

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Benefits

Key benefits of the Infor Nexus TMS system

Transform transportation from a cost center into a competitive advantage with synchronized planning, optimized routing, and collaborative orchestration.

Improved service

Provide more accurate ETAs, improving customer satisfaction and strengthening relationships.

Increased efficiency

Automate manual booking, sourcing, and tendering processes to streamline operations and reduce delays.

Optimized costs

Gain detailed visibility into transportation spend, ensuring accurate invoicing and optimizing spending.

Reduced emissions

Optimize routes, carrier selection, and container utilization to reduce carbon emissions.

Explore our transportation management software modules

From sourcing to planning and execution, optimize your entire logistics operations with Infor Nexus TMS.

Transportation sourcing
Transportation planning & optimization
Global logistics visibility
Transportation execution
Freight pay & audit

Transportation sourcing

Manage the entire lifecycle of transportation sourcing while optimizing bid events, standardizing contract management, and driving contract compliance. Gain a secure, single view of the contracted rates and carrier allocations plans.

Highlights:

Contract management: Streamline transportation procurement contract management processes and spot bids to ensure critical capacity and contain global freight costs
Bid simplification: Run complex international freight bid events across ocean, air, and truckload with less labor and better outcomes
Contract negotiation: Ensure the value your team has negotiated successfully transforms into value realized for the enterprise
Cost optimization: Optimize costs using flexible rules to suit all scenarios

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Transportation planning & optimization

Enhance your supply chain with transportation planning and optimization solutions that streamline transportation routes, reduce costs, and enhance delivery efficiency.

Highlights:

Shipment consolidation: Consolidate and plan shipments beginning at origin and across multiple modes and geographies
Route optimization: Advanced algorithms analyze different transportation options and constraints to determine the most cost-effective and efficient routes
Carrier selection: Automatically select the best carriers based on cost, service levels, and capacity
Container utilization: Maximize container capacity by efficiently grouping shipments

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Global logistics visibility

Tap into a robust network of global logistics service providers to maximize visibility. Monitor shipment progress over multiple modes and geographies – including at origin, over ocean, and inland to destination.

Highlights:

Enhanced visibility: See transportation plans across multiple legs, modes, and service providers for agile response to exceptions
Optimized execution: Compare actual execution details against optimized plans and costs to drive improvement
Cost optimization: Improve cost containment and carrier performance with intelligent itineraries and projected freight spend
Extended collaboration: Extend visibility and control with supplier-direct bookings at origin and automated ASN creation

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Transportation execution

Streamline global transportation execution by automating booking and tendering processes, securing capacity, and ensuring reliability.

Highlights:

Pre-integrated carriers: Leverage standard booking and tendering workflows, messages, and interfaces to communicate transport plan data for all modes and services
Automated carrier assignment: Automatically select and tender shipments to the best-fit carriers based on set criteria
Multi-model integration: Seamlessly manage and tender bookings across all transportation modes
End-to-end visibility: Gain real-time tracking and status updates of shipments for proactive management of global transportation

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Freight pay & audit

Improve ocean and freight procurement while streamlining invoice audits, approvals, and allocations across your transportation network.

Highlights:

Best practice adoption: Leverage best practices such as self-pay/self-invoice for closed-loop spend management
Earlier insights: Gain end-to-end cost projections and dynamic tracking to provide earlier insights into freight accruals
Cost allocation and reporting: Allocate freight costs across business units and gain insights into transportation expenses to optimize cost control
Centralized rating: Control freight spend with a flexible (but centrally managed) multimodal rating engine populated directly from contracts

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Demo

See Infor Nexus Global TMS in action

Global logistics is challenging, involving complex international shipping with various parties, modes, geographies, documentation, and rising costs. Watch the demo to see how Infor Nexus Freight Pay & Audit can help your company improve freight procurement while streamlining invoice audits, approvals, and allocations across your transportation network.

Infor Nexus was a lifesaver for us on the supply chain and the distribution side. Our business is significantly more optimized and efficient, and we have a lot more flexibility, visibility, and agility in our supply chain and distribution environments because of the platform and the data it gives us access to.

Ryan Bezenek

Vice President of IT | Ariat International

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Customer story

Allport Cargo maximizes visibility into shipments

See how Allport Cargo, a North American logistics service provider, uses Infor Nexus to obtain greater shipment visibility. This allows the company to give its customers better control over their freight management strategy – so they can reduce additional transport costs and optimize inventory availability.

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Resources

Transportation management insights and resources

Learn more about how Infor Nexus Global Transportation Management software can make your logistics more cost-effective and efficient.

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Brochure

Don’t drown in data in ocean bids

To be successful in the ocean bid process today, companies must gather and leverage large amount of data. Learn how Infor Nexus can help automate the process – saving you time and money.

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Analyst Report

Infor Nexus saves customers millions

Nucleus Research interviewed Infor Nexus customers and found our supply chain control tower solution helped them save millions of dollars in transportation costs. Here’s how.

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Case Study

DB Schenker drives hyper-connectivity

Find out how DB Schenker, one of the world’s largest logistics providers, partners with Infor to provide AI-based decision support and automation – and stay at the forefront of innovation.

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Webinar

Managing transportation with agility

Find out why a networked global transportation management system is essential for establishing the growth, service levels, cost control, and customer service needed to become a supply chain leader.

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Explore the Infor Nexus portfolio

Discover the full suite of Infor Nexus supply chain management solutions designed to help your organization become more proactive, resilient, and sustainable.

Supply Chain Control Tower

Gain end-to-end visibility, actionable insights, and real-time decision support to manage supply chain disruptions.

Control tower software

Supply Chain Visibility

Gain real-time visibility into orders, shipments, and inventory – and leverage machine learning-based ETAs for more accurate arrival dates.

Supply chain visibility

Supplier Management

Engage and collaborate with multiple tiers of suppliers across your network to ensure supply, reduce cycle times, and increase agility and resilience.

Supplier management

Procure-to-Pay Automation

Streamline and automate procure-to-pay processes to gain greater efficiency and cash flow visibility – and strengthen supplier relationships.

P2P automation

Supply Chain Finance

Leverage a comprehensive multi-bank network and innovative financing programs to unlock working capital and benefit both buyers and suppliers.

Supply chain finance

ESG & Sustainability

Reach your supply chain sustainability and ESG goals faster. Monitor emissions and drive change through multi-tier transparency and incentivized ESG alignment.

Sustainability software

Supply Chain Traceability

Drive end-to-end product traceability to comply with regulations, support product claims, and meet ethical and eco-conscious consumer expectations.

Supply chain traceability

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Deliver goods on time and on budget with our global TMS system

Optimize global logistics with world-class TMS software

Key benefits of the Infor Nexus TMS system

Improved service

Increased efficiency

Optimized costs

Reduced emissions