Question

What is the relationship between Transportation Resource Planning solutions and ERP solutions? Be sure to cite or include links to your sources.

Answer 1

Most of the Transportation Industries keep tracks of their resources (vehicles), need to schedule vehicles for maintenance, related payments, future bookings etc. And the related information is maintained through file system. This leads to the Auditing issues and rectifications.

When we consider ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) solutions, which helps to integrate all the third-party solutions to provide the wider view of the all the key business processes and offers a centralized platform. ERP solutions provides many features like vendor portals, centralized view of the SCM, service wise or product wise view apart from the functionality such as creating sales or purchase order etc. ERP solutions enables the transportation business by managing the key business segments such as managing customers and their requirements, transportation optimization, management of logistics, resource management, maximizing profitability through customer loyalty with efficient processes.

The transportation resource planning solutions are more specific to Transportation industry and offers real-time visibility of the transportation resources by fulfilling the customer needs at low cost. Thus, transportation resource planning solutions delivers planning, visualization, analyzing, tracking, simulation features to use the right resources at right time and place. Some of the features which transportation resource planning solutions provide are – forecasting of the transportation resource demand and supply, Optimization of the scheduling of the vehicles based on location, Integration with the centralized ERP and logistic system, provide access to detailed information and KPIs.

Hence, ERP solutions and systems are the integral tools for the transportation industry to streamline their day to day operations.

A few of the examples are Sage, SAP etc. who provides transportation resource planning solutions along with the ERP solutions.