Setup of Terminal Management System (TMS)

This Book describes the fundamentals that should be considered when setting up a terminal management system tailored to the business processes, to avoid business processes having to adapt to IT processes resulting in inefficiencies and risks on errors.

Introduction

A common mistake made in building IT systems, is that it is considered an IT project led by IT pe...

The Fundamentals

The Fundamentals describe the basic concepts that should be covered at a granular level to accomm...

Means of Transport and the concept of a Visit

'Goods don't fall from the sky'. The operational business of a Terminal that deals with energy pr...

Locations

The governance of customs processes is done via authorizations/licenses. In these licenses, an im...

Parties

In the dealing with Products, we deal with various Parties in the Supply chain. The Parties invol...

Products and Parcels

By far, the most important part of a sufficient setup of a record keeping is the so-called Parcel...

Cargo documents

Any cargo comes with various documents. These documents are typically archived in an archiving sy...

Storage Unit

Any (bulk) Product is physically contained somewhere. This can be a compartment on a Vessel, a Tr...

Activities - Movements or Services

So now that we have covered the registration of the Means of Transport (MoT), Locations where the...