Sargento’s existing Transportation Management System (TMS) solution was not able to meet operational requirements. Orders were planned into shipments without considering cost, service, or contractual commitments to carriers, and there was an inability to accurately allocate transportation costs at the order level. Sargento chose to implement a flexible, scalable multimodal transportation management system that would meet their operational needs today and in the future. Sargento established a list of goals for a transportation management system: – Integrate with 30 carriers – Ship approximately 3,000 orders per month – Transport 24 million pounds of products on average per month – Integrate with existing supply chain software – Straight-through processing of order data via EDI BUSIN

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