Oracle OTM alternative
The Oracle OTM alternative that is live in six weeks
A TMS manages transport you've booked. It's built around carrier contracts, rate management and tendering, and it depends on structured data arriving from systems you've integrated. Most of the inbound truth never arrives that way.
Where the OTM path strains. And what to run instead.
The project eighteen months before value
EDI mapping, middleware, supplier certification and steering calls. The clock runs long before the first trustworthy arrival date shows up.
The suppliers they won't key it in
OTM sees what suppliers and carriers submit in structured form. The shipment that slipped nine days is announced in an email, not an EDI segment.
The inbound truth it lives in your mailbox
Confirmations, revisions and forwarder notices on threads you already receive. Epoch reads that, at PO line level, and rebuilds the arrival dates you can plan against.
What Epoch does instead. Six weeks, one lane, your own data.
Reads the mail as it arrives nothing to install
Forwarding rules on your inbound mailboxes, set up in an afternoon. A forwarded thread, a crooked PDF, an ETA in a reply-all. All of it counts.
Rebuilds arrival truth line level, not container level
Knowing when goods will actually land, at PO level, so you can plan and hold buffer against something real.
Returns your number you keep it only if it pays
A six-week pilot on one lane reads your own inbound and returns what the buffer can safely release, proven against what actually landed.
Already running OTM?
Keep it. Epoch runs alongside your TMS or replaces the inbound side of it. Manufacturers have done both.
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