USTRANSCOM (TMS)

USTRANSCOM TMS converged multiple disconnected logistics systems into one streamlined SAP S/4HANA SaaS in the Cloud

Client Challenge

In 2018, USTRANSCOM executed a Transportation Management System (TMS) prototype that brought end-users online and booked and shipped cargo within the United States in multiple use cases. USTRANSCOM was able to consolidate and streamline capabilities and processes from multiple legacy applications into one system, as well as standardize the mode-agnostic transportation request process with Government and Industry. USTRANSCOM learned commercial supply chain management software can perform the functionality and data integration crucial to making decisions required to deploy and sustain the Joint Force at the time and place necessary for mission success. USTRANSCOM’s TMS brought people, processes, technology, and data together across the organizational enterprise. It delivered the capacity for data driven information and end-to-end shipment visibility in a single system.

Groundswell’s Solution

We implemented an out-of-the-box SAP S/4HANA Transportation Management (TM) system to satisfy USTRANSCOM’s unique transportation requirements and deployed capabilities in phases, as prioritized by the customer. We established the use of SAP S/4HANA transportation and supply chain management software in the USTRANSCOM secure cloud. This allowed USTRANSCOM to consolidate and streamline capabilities and processes from multiple legacy applications into one system.

Impact Made

After 4 successful Go-Lives, in 2019, the Transportation Management system was used for the first time for a highly successful unit movement from OCONUS to a CONUS base when the 25th Infantry Division’s 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team deployed from Schofield Barracks, HI to the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, La. The solution’s single platform capabilities kept everyone synchronized, and performed the work previously supported by 9 disparate systems. This one-system solution reconciled data and pulled information for clearer, more accurate communication across the globe. Our SAP S/4HANA TMS solution ensured unit integrity, tracking of equipment, and overall data quality for fast-moving, effective enterprise-wide logistics.

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SAP Strategy

“We will be in great shape as we continue to evolve, and I think it’s worth the energy we are putting in today to demonstrate what the art of the possible is.”
Hon. Robert H. McMahon
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Sustainment
“We have the ability to connect horizontally across the enterprise to create effects that otherwise we could not create.”
Hon. Robert H. McMahon
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Sustainment
“This is a system that will facilitate and allow us to do all of the activities we need to do during all phases of transportation—it will be simple for everyone to track and coordinate movements.”
Luis Ramos
Transportation Specialist, SDDC 842nd Transporation Battalion
“To consolidate these systems and streamline processes, Groundswell began a journey of success and over the course of two years, Groundswell TMS proved to increase visibility, reduce the need of cross system intervention for planning and execution, and enhance auditability through integrated finance reporting and detailed change management.”
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“This is a great thing for the DOD. It’s one system for all. We won’t be swivel chairing between systems, and it will increase visibility and lower costs.”
Installation Transportation Officer D.J. Eckland
Fort McCoy’s Logistics Readiness Center (LRC) Transportation Division
“Throughout DOD, multiple transportation systems are used, and many don’t communicate effectively with each other. Muller said the TMS prototype creates a possible “one-stop shop” where everyone can communicate in one system and improve capabilities throughout.”
Freight Management Specialist Dean Muller
Fort McCoy’s Logistics Readiness Center (LRC) Transportation Division
“Telesto is a good implementation partner. When you implement a new system there’s a feeling out period between all parties involved. You go from sort of a generic capability to fine tuning it with yourself, the customer, Telesto, and Transcom to work through the process and make it more efficient. Telesto has a very good understanding of SAP’s TMS product. Connecting all the dots and adding EDI took some time, but Telesto was very responsive to getting all of that done.”
Mike Garvin
Director of Government Services for Matson,
a U.S. owned and operated transportation services company

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