A new transport management system design considering the upcoming logistics environment and the sensitive products supply chains

Abstract : Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in freight transport are more and more used by companies to plan, optimize and monitor their transportation steps. These systems, well known as Transport Management Systems (TMS) were first developed 20 years ago and have recently evolved with Internet of Things and web service technologies. Nevertheless, they do not achieve current sensitive products supply chain objectives and are facing with several issues due to a more and more complex logistic environment. The French Blood Establishment case is used to put forward this lacks. Considering the upcoming logistics trends and the existing TMS failures we propose a new approach to monitor freight transportation, considering on one part smart containers and on the other part load displacement capacities.