ВНЕДРЕНИЕ ОБЛАЧНОЙ СИСТЕМЫ УПРАВЛЕНИЯ ТРАНСПОРТНЫМИ ПЕРЕВОЗКАМИ ДЛЯ АВТОМАТИЗАЦИИ ДОКУМЕНТООБОРОТА МАЛЫХ ТРАНСПОРТНО-ЭКСПЕДИТОРСКИХ КОМПАНИЙ

Abstract:
The article is devoted to the study of the problem of document management automation for small freight forwarding companies. The relevance of the study is due to the acceleration of digitalization of the transport industry and the transition of freight transportation participants to mandatory registration of transportation and forwarding documents in electronic form, which imposes new requirements on the information infrastructure of small companies. The task of digital transformation for small companies is not to develop their own technologies or purchase existing developments, but to use ready-made platform solutions by paying a subscription fee, since other solutions are disproportionate to the revenues of small companies. Based on comparative, system and functional analysis, enterprise-class systems, electronic document exchange services and cloud transport platforms are considered. It has been established that the main criteria for choosing a digital solution for a small freight forwarding company are the cost of implementation, the need for its own IT infrastructure and specialists, as well as the ability to interact with counterparties. As a solution to this problem, the article proposes the introduction of cloud-based transportation management systems for document management automation (cloud TMS), the advantage of which is that it works by subscription and provides a common information base, without access to the server and its maintenance. The architecture of the system is proposed, which includes a transportation card, an automatic document generation module, a registry with a history of changes, and an external access module for counterparties. The practical significance of the results obtained lies in the possibility of using the proposed approach by small freight forwarding companies when choosing and implementing a digital solution for the transition to electronic document management with limited financial and human resources.