A Transportation Management System (TMS) is a tool that is aimed at helping business and organizations to effectively manage its logistics supply chain, and help in organizing the products and materials. A TMS also helps in effectively managing shipping units, outbound and inbound shipment scheduling, transportation mode selection, freight bill auditing etc. Some of the basic functions and advantages of a transportation management system are shipment load planning and shipment routing optimization, routing guide, execution management and carrier communication, shipment tracking, freight bill audit & payment, business intelligence reporting, returns management, appointment scheduling etc. The shipment load planning and routing optimization helps the shippers to plan the loading and find a suitable and optimized routes as per their requirements. This helps in saving a lot of money and time and as a results makes it easy for the shippers to manage. The routing guide is another feature of a TMS …