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Business: Case Study. Transportation Management System (TMS) Name: Grade Course: Tutor’s Name: (13, April, 2011) Abstract: The Gartner study rated its Technologies and Oracle as the top- rated vendors of the new TMS products. Oracle Transportation Management was originally developed by G-Log before it was acquired by Oracle last year. Major shippers and third-party logistics providers deploying Oracle's TMS include DuPont, Excel and Halliburton. Jeff Woods said that despite its recent financial problems, it is "an important player in the market, and in many cases, they have the most sophisticated product.” The Transportation Management System (TMS) is a software system that is designed in order to manage transportation operations in an organization. They help in the managing of the supply chain whether in the organization or any other aspects of the organizations normal operations (Field, 2006). In the recent times these systems are offered in different licenses arrangement, thus they provide the shippers with affordable and sophisticated software that enables the organizations management team to manage the normal operations of their companies. The use of the Transportation Management System (TMS) has also provided the users with the opportunity of merging and monitoring and offering consultancy in the supply chain management; thus ensuring that the shippers blend well there activities this is as a result of the improved software system that will contribute in offering the users with the opportunity offers there clients with efficient services and at the same time improving their logistics without any conflicting information as a result of mismanaged data (Wagner, 2005). Logistics is termed as the management of the flow of services and goods between one point to the other, that is the flow of a products /service from the point of production to the point of consumption and the transporting of the product from one point to the other should satisfy the requirement of customers, it highly includes the transportation, inventory, goods handling, packaging, security and information integration of the goods / services to a customer. How Transportation Management System (TMS) improves the efficiency of logistics? With the clear understanding of the term logistics an organization will improve its efficiency by the use of the Transportation Management System (TMS) software will improve the logistics in various ways one way in which Transportation Management System (TMS) is when the shipping or air transporting company will easily improve its service provision (Field, 2006). This is because the software will provide them with the opportunity of exchanging information that will make communication between these parties more efficient thus it will result to free flow of information between the supplier and the customer thus making it...