5280: Transportation Manager v2019.1

Course Type

  • Instructor Led

Duration

  • 4 days

Target Audience

  • EndUser
  • SuperUser

Course Description

Through a combination of concepts and hands-on exercises, you will learn how to navigate the Transportation Manager UI and Transportation Smartbench (TSB), how to execute the operational lifecycle, create entities, tariffs, docks, and much more.

Course Notes

  • 15 Lessons

Lesson Details

5280-01: Terminology

Lesson Objectives

This lesson will help you understand the terminologies used in Transportation Manager (TM) and how to apply those terminologies in the business scenario.

1 Hour ILT
5280-02: Workflows

Lesson Objectives

  • Explain the Transportation Manager (TM) workflow
  • Describe the TM setup process
  • Explain the functionality of the TM modules
  • Not Applicable
1 Hour ILT
5280-03: Navigation and User Security

Lesson Objectives

  • Perform basic navigation, such as logging on to Transportation Manager (TM), selecting items, performing actions on the selected items, customizing the Ul, and searching for items
  • Create TM user groups and users
  • Describe how TM supports user authorization

Lesson Exercises

  • Creating Users
  • Customizing the Navigation Panel
2 Hours ILT
5280-04: Entities

Lesson Objectives

  • Describe the system entities setup process
  • Create entities

Lesson Exercises

Creating and Working with Entities

2 Hours ILT
5280-05: Operational Lifecycle

Lesson Objectives

  • Explain the Transportation Manager operational lifecycle
  • Enter shipments using the TM Shipment Processing module
  • Perform the Load Building steps
  • Perform the Load Processing steps
  • Perform pickup confirmation

Lesson Exercises

  • Operational Workflow (Single-Pick)
  • Operational Workflow (Multi-Pick)
3 Hours 30 Minutes ILT
5280-06: Transportation Smartbench

Lesson Objectives

  • Describe Transportation Smartbench (TSB) and its features
  • Enter shipments using the TM Shipment Processing module
  • Perform steps of the operational lifecycle using TSB

Lesson Exercises

  • Creating Groups and Search Items
  • Plan a load
  • Evaluation-Based Decision Support
3 Hours 30 Minutes ILT
5280-07: Financials

Lesson Objectives

  • Explain the Transportation Manager (TM) financial workflow
  • Perform financial processing within TM

Lesson Exercises

  • Manual Financial Processing
  • Automated Financial Processing
3 Hours ILT
5280-08: Tariff Structures

Lesson Objectives

  • Discuss tariff structures
  • Explain the tariff workflow
  • Create a tariff

Lesson Exercises

  • Tariff Business Scenario‭
  • Defining Zones and Creating Tariffs
  • Testing Tariffs
  • Creating Separate Loads
  • Verifying A/R Tariffs
  • Career Tariff Creation
  • Creating the Tariff
  • Testing the Tariffs
  • Verifying Stop Charge Condition
  • Verifying Repositioning Stop Condition
  • Creating a New Shipment and Rating the New Load
2 Hours ILT
5280-09: Tariff Smartbench

Lesson Objectives

  • Describe the key components of the Tariff Smartbench (TFSB)
  • Navigate through TFSB

Lesson Exercises

Not Applicable

30 Minutes ILT
5280-10: Audit Smartbench

Lesson Objectives

  • Describe Audit Smartbench (ASB)
  • Identify the navigation features of ASB
  • Explain the various features used in ASB

Lesson Exercises

Not Applicable

45 Minutes ILT
5280-11: Fuel Surcharge Modeling

Lesson Objectives

  • Define fuel surcharge
  • Identify how fuel surcharge can be applied to a tariff based on changing fuel prices
  • Configure fuel surcharge

Lesson Exercises

Fuel Surcharge Modeling

1 Hour 30 Minutes ILT
5280-12: Delivery Schedules

Lesson Objectives

  • Explain the concept of Delivery Schedules
  • Create a Delivery Schedule

Lesson Exercises

  • Create a Delivery Schedule
  • Create a Timetable
  • Create a Timetable Entry
  • Create an Itinerary
  • Create a Tariff
  • Rate Calculator
1 Hour 30 Minutes ILT
5280-13: Ocean Booking

Lesson Objectives

  • Describe the concept of Ocean Booking
  • Perform the TM operational workflow steps for Ocean Booking
  • Describe the features of Ocean Booking
  • Explain Booking revisions

Lesson Exercises

  • Create a Booking
  • Create a Booking Revision
2 Hours 30 Minutes ILT
5280-14: Dock Scheduling

Lesson Objectives

  • Explain the concept of Dock Scheduling
  • Perform Dock Scheduling in Transportation Manager (TM)

Lesson Exercises

  • Creating Docks
  • Location Throughput Groups
2 Hours 30 Minutes ILT
5280-15: Day in a Life

Lesson Objectives

  • Upload carriers through Data Upload
  • Upload shipments through Data Upload
  • Optimize a shipment in TM
  • Plan and tender a load in Smartbench
  • Confirm the load in TM

Lesson Exercises

  • Upload Carrier through XML
  • Upload Shipments through XML and Perform Operations
30 Minutes ILT