With flexible configurations, sophisticated planning tools, automated Communications and comprehensive Job Costing facilities, ForwardOffice Transport Operations allows you to control all the activity of your transport department for your own and/or sub-contracted vehicles. Capable of accommodating all types of road transport, from simple domestic to inter-depot trunking and international movements, it can revolutionise your Transport department, with vastly improved Communications to Freight Operations departments and comprehensive Job Costing facilities.
The application is fully integrated with all ForwardOffice Operations modules, enabling transport instructions to be automatically generated to the Transport department and providing full visibility of their progress.
Each Transport department can be run as a separate "Profit Centre", with powerful Job Costing and reporting facilities. Further productivity gains can be made via automatic rate calculations and haulier self-billing.
Our Transport solution provides Traffic Desk staff at all levels with just the tools they need to operate their transport logistics and can make a major contribution to improving efficiency and productivity.
Key Features:
- Multiple Traffic Desks within multiple Departments (optionally across national boundaries)
- Multiple Transport Instruction (TI) types
- Optional colour assignment by TI type
- Drag and Drop vehicle allocation
- User-definable list column ordering and sizing on master Planning Console
- Sort by any column
- Flexible planning filters for search criteria
- Multiple Vehicle Running Sheet (VRS) types
- Auto VRS Trip Builder for regular runs
- Fully integrated to Operations, with automatic TI leg construction by service or department
- Full progress visibility from Operations to Transport database
- Optional Event Management triggers warning e-Mails to interested parties as events occur
- Cost management at TI and VRS level
- Flexible buying tariff matrix for automatic haulier self- bill generation
- Flexible selling tariff matrix for internal charging back to Freight Operations departments
- Automatic internal cost journals from Transport to freight Operations (i.e. Freight Operations costs become revenue for Transport department)
- Automatic distance gazetteer which builds ‘on the fly'
- Optional Latitude/Longitude database for Trip suggestions (show TI's within a certain distance, 20 miles, 30 miles, etc.)
- Support for Freight Operations load plans
- Flexible user-definable document production
- Powerful TI and VRS reporters enabling in depth financial and statistical analysis including optional spreadsheet links
- Automated POD update facility
- Optionally integrated with the following ForwardOffice modules:
- e-Mail/Fax/Telex Communications
- Import and Export Operations
- Domestic Distribution
- Rates and Tariffs
- Job Costing
