The rapid growth of cloud-based business operations worldwide has revolutionized this industry. It is able to handle the intensity of volatility and continuous speed and provide greater responsiveness to disruptions in supply chains. The companies are changing their supply chains to create an electronic supply chain that connects physical flow of goods as well as services. It offers cost-effective and efficient, safe and infinitely adaptable solutions that can be easily integrated into existing systems.

Cloud is growing rapidly to facilitate collaborative transportation management solutions (TMS) as well as different aspects associated with transportation management like sourcing capacity for networks, total transparency and event management and ancillary tasks, like paying for freight as well as auditing.

Cloud has been seen as a major cost-saving option that provides a means by that supply chain managers can access data quickly and easily innovative solutions offered through the SaaS model and then deploy these solutions at scale.