Benefits of Logistics Automation in a Transportation Management System What was Logistics Automation as It Affects to Transportation Management? When we talk about logistics automation, we are talking about all of the automation features ready in the technology of a Transportation Management System (TMS) to arrange your transportation and freight departments. Moving back to the explanation of automation, we view logistics automation as the reduction in manual entry of processing freight shipments and the automated retrieval of options in the acquisition of transportation for your freight. Moreover, logistics automation in a logistics management system will grant automatic notifications and real-time updates of freight information.