AscendTMS Logistics Software

Kommentare: I just started my business a year ago at that time I was looking for the best TMS for a small start up company that would fit my needs and I have found Ascend TMS to fit my needs. Customer servie rep was very helpful assisting me with setting up branches.

Vorteile: Ascend is very user friendly and cost effective

Nachteile: The shipper directory could use an update

Kommentare: As an owner of a 3PL I have to use software that keeps track of all my top line revenue, gross margin, and commissions for my sales team. Ascend does a great job of all of that. The board itself where I keep track of the companies shipments is very easy and simple to view. It has to be when you're moving a high volume of loads and need to stay organized. Overall great product.

Vorteile: 1. In the cloud.
2. UI is great.
3. Easy to add users, delete users.
4. Great reporting.

Nachteile: Nothing. They continue to improve their software every month adding new integrations and add ons.

Vorteile: User Friendly interface
Competitively priced
Compatibility with various devices

Nachteile: Lag time on changing screens
Missing some features still- exporting certain reports, keeping track of available trucks, etc.

Kommentare: Since the software integrates with other offerings, I ended up signing up with Triumph Business Capital for factoring (because they were integrated) and Triumph has been great.

Vorteile: Ascend tries to be many things, with a host of integrations from DAT load board to Triumph Business Capital for factoring. There is a lot going on and for the most part, the software does its job. The address auto-populate feature is very helpful when entering new addresses. That is sort of where the positives stop for me.

Nachteile: There are simply too many steps to go through to enter and dispatch a single load. Instead of having everything on one screen to be entered quickly, you have to fill out one screen, click to go to the next screen, click to go to the next screen, all for one load. It simply took me too much time. I ended up switching over to Trucking Office (I am a smaller operation) and the difference in time spent dispatching was very noticeable. All in all, it was not bad software, just did not work out for me. There are also minor glitches with the formatting of the website interface that bugged me, like text running outside of a box, just little aesthetic touches that were distracting.

Kommentare: The software is great for keeping docs and notes organized on our carriers and reporting functions have been very helpful to streamline our SOP's.

Vorteile: I enjoy the document organization and archiving functions for keeping files on our preferred carriers. Also the reporting functions give us great insight into areas of improvement internally.

Nachteile: Occasionally adding a new carrier finding a carrier with a newer MC number can be frustrating but out side of that no problems!