Top-performing Solution for Transportation Management
In five years’ time, international software provider inet-logistics intends to have broken into the ranks of the Top 5 global TMS providers. Such is the target that the management team led by CEO Oswald Werle and Managing Director Wolfgang Erhart have set themselves, following intensive analysis of their own strengths, of the market requirements and of the competition.
(dispo 10.2009) The two company managers were interviewed by dispo about their ambitious program.
In the software industry, inet is best known as a provider of SCE solutions. Why have you decided to branch out into the TMS market?
Oswald Werle: It is indeed our aim to enhance the perception of our core competence, namely the development of an advanced TMS solution and of its associated services. However,
this is in no way inconsistent with our market positioning to date as a provider of Supply Chain Execution (SCE) solutions, but rather a fine-tuning of what we have always done: our
solutions for companies operating in transport-intensive sectors have always been centered around our Transport Management System (inet TMS).
What role does inet TMS play in the TMS market?
Wolfgang Erhart: Around twelve months ago, we took a long, hard look at how we planned to structure our continued growth and what would be the appropriate targets to set. As part
of this process, we systematically analyzed the software we have developed to meet customer and market requirements, focusing particularly on robust technology and performance, and
compared it with current and future benchmarks as defined by leading market observers.
What challenges have you identified in the TMS market?
Wolfgang Erhart: The TMS market is heavily affected by the rapidly changing requirements of transportation management that are increasingly global in scale. Even though the
current economic climate results into transportation capacities not being fully utilized everywhere, this is a resource that will remain in short supply in the future.
What developments do you foresee in the TMS market?
Oswald Werle: Our experience has been very much in line with the assessment of market observers that the TMS market is one of the most dynamic in the logistics sector. Companies
have now begun to take account of transportation costs as part of their overall cost management and are seeking solutions to enhance the operational excellence of their organization in
this area too.
