Total Quality Logistics' 2021 AWARD FINALIST CASE STUDY: Best Achievement in Operational Excellence to deliver Business Transformation

Read this article about Total Quality Logistics, Finalist in the Best Achievement in Operational Excellence to deliver Business Transformation, selected by the independent judging panel, for the 2021 Digital Transformation & Operational Excellence Industry Awards program.

TQL Product Model Drives Innovation at Total Quality Logistics

Total Quality Logistics (TQL) is a freight brokerage and third-party logistics firm that provides world-class service to its shipping customers, and to the carriers moving the freight. For much of our 24-year history, we’ve used a suite of proprietary technologies to oversee the freight movement process, from tendering loads to delivery.

TQL has grown from a two-man start up in 1997 to a 7000+ person, multi-billion dollar company today. As a service-based organization in the transportation industry, creating tools that help our people manage the delivery of goods has been key to our success from the beginning.

Our technologies work hand-in-hand with our work ethic work to give us the ability to turn on a dime and get the job done in an industry where everything from pandemics to weather affect deliverability. These technologies include:

· Load Manager – Our freight management tool is used by our sales brokers and logistics coordinators to arrange loads of freight. It encompasses many of our lines of business and service offerings into one suite of software.

· TQL TRAX – This portal and app gives visibility of loads in transit to our customers. They can also tender payment, book future loads, and use their data to find greater efficiencies in their supply chain.

· Carrier Dashboard – This portal and app is for the carriers moving loads for us. It gives them the information they need to pick up and deliver loads in their care, as well as direct and distributed communication with the TQL team they are working with.

From our rapid growth internally to rapid changes in the supply chain industry, we found the technology development cycle that brought us so far wasn’t going to take us much further. We needed something faster and more flexible to keep up with the pace of technology and the volatility inherent in the transportation industry. We needed to think differently about our technology development approach.

Over the last 24 months, we’ve transformed from a project-focused delivery structure to a feature-based product-led model engineered to deliver continuous value to our products and service offerings. This ensures greater alignment with company strategic objectives, faster delivery of capabilities with faster time to market and an organizational framework to support the company growth.

In 2019, a group of IT, operations and product development professionals launched the TQL Product Model initiative.

The initiative’s objective is to better align technology development to business objectives to ensure technical capabilities are always in line with how we deliver business services.

Using the principles of agile scrum and other rapid development methodologies, cross-functional teams that include product managers, software engineers, operations specialists and program managers form as existing product lifecycle timelines come to an end. This enables a smooth transition to the new structure.

Our new product-led model drives innovation across the entire company, making us faster, leaner and better able to deliver the best service to our key stakeholders – our customers, our carriers and each other.

Digital Transformation & Operational Excellence Industry Awards 2021

About the Awards

The Digital Transformation & Operational Excellence Awards have been established to showcase globally the most outstanding achievements through the application of Business Transformation, Digital Transformation, Operational Excellence & Innovation Excellence programs. Click here to view the Press Release.

The winners will be announced at the Awards Ceremony at The Digital Transformation & Operational Excellence World Awards (DTOES) on Wednesday, December 15th, 2021, from 6:30 PM at Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld®.

The Business Transformation & Operational Excellence Awards are open to all organizations, both private and public sector, across the globe, which have implemented Business Transformation, Digital Transformation, Operational Excellence & Innovation Excellence programs to deliver outstanding business results.

The Awards will be held in conjunction with the Business Transformation & Operational Excellence World Summit, BTOES 2021 on December 15, 2021, at the Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld®. Click to access the agenda, view the current speakers, and watch the highlights video from last year.

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The issues in this article are just one of topic areas that are going to be discussed at the Business Transformation & Operational Excellence World Summit & Industry

BTOES is the industry’s biggest and best, senior-level, cross-industry gathering of Business Transformation & Operational Excellence industry leaders and senior executives.

With over 150 speakers, over 100 sessions, 12 Keynotes, 9 Track Themes, 5 parallel tracks, 60+ track sessions, 50 roundtable discussions, 20 Interactive Workshops, 6 Thought Leader Panels, 5 Leaders Boardrooms, 5 co-located events, the Industry Awards Program, Site Visits, 20+ hours of social networking including 2 gala cocktail parties, dinners, numerous group activities, this is the ultimate event to benchmark, network and drive Operational Excellence to the next level.

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There is a strong focus on Cultural Transformation, Customer Delight, Sustaining an Operational Excellence program, Need for end-to-end Business Transformation, Keeping up with new technologies/impact of digitalization and Leadership Buy-in & Understanding. We dedicated two tracks to advanced technologies, such as AI, Machine Learning, RPA, Predictive Analytics, Blockchain, Cloud infrastructure etc.

The agenda is designed to encourage active meaningful conversations through all day enhanced networking and interaction opportunities, including

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