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If you work with Oracle Transportation Management (OTM) or another transportation management system (TMS), you have seen messages like this. They are almost never the real problem. The real problem is usually a decision someone made a year earlier, in a design workshop. Some of those decisions hold up for years. Others start to hurt the week after go-live.
This newsletter is about the difference.
It is for people who implement and run OTM and other TMS platforms: consultants at implementation partners, and the internal admins and key users who keep the system running after go-live.
Every second Tuesday you get one decision from real projects: what tends to break, what works better, and how to choose before it is too late to change. Sometimes it is a case where the common advice is wrong.
Each issue also has a short news section: two or three things that changed in OTM and the systems around it, such as new releases, AI features, carrier and visibility tools, and new rules for transport. Every item links to its source. It is for people who are too busy with projects to follow release notes.
Most issues are about OTM. But an OTM project never stands alone, so some issues look at the systems around it: SAP and other ERPs, warehouse management, carrier connections, visibility platforms such as FourKites, and how other TMS products solve the same problems.
Deep dives go into one problem in detail. Field notes are short: one idea, said directly.
What you will not find here: click-by-click guides, or best practices that nobody has tested.
About me
I am Martin Durco. I have worked on global OTM and SAP SD and LE logistics implementations for ten years. I write about patterns I have seen across many projects, never about one client or one project.
If something here does not match what you see on your project, reply and tell me. I read every message, and the best issues will start from those replies. You can also write to me at martin@noratefound.com.
Views are my own and do not represent my employer or any client. Nothing here is based on confidential project information. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Oracle. Oracle and OTM are trademarks of Oracle Corporation. Other product names are trademarks of their owners.
