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Shipment Management

ediTRACK's Shipment Management module manages the movement of goods from cargo booking or shipment request, through to arrival and customs clearance, and provides alerting and reporting to enable supply chain optimisation.

Real time visibility improves decision making and enables a quicker response to market demands by fast tracking priority items or holding goods which are no longer required.

Key Benefits

  • Improves decision making through greater visibility and automatic alerting to issues.
  • Enables web access to real time information on shipment progress.
  • Increases availability due to greater speed to market and fast tracking of priority goods.
  • Reduces markdowns due to improved availability of stock.
  • Reduces costs and increases margins through supply chain optimisation.
  • Enables objective supplier and carrier performance measuring and score carding.

Features

  • Online supplier shipment requests and cargo booking with forwarders.
  • Automates shipment authorisations based on predefined tolerances.
  • Provides visibility of consolidation receipt & despatch of goods.
  • Provides visibility of shipment manifest data at item level.
  • Allows for the routing of multi leg shipments on feeder vessels at origin and destination.
  • Allows for the routing of goods to any location e.g. reprocessors, offshore hubs or direct to store.
  • Confirms arrival at destination.
  • Flags priority items for fast tracking.
  • Monitors supplier & forwarder performance.
  • Monitors container fill and air freight volumes.

Management Information

  • Objective supplier and forwarder performance reporting.
  • Goods in transit reporting.
  • Real time shipment status reporting.
  • Unconfirmed shipment requests alerting.
  • Amended shipment requests alerting.
  • Dashboard reporting for Unbooked Orders; Awaiting Authority; Awaiting Shipment & Shipments in Transit.
  • Goods awaiting shipment action lists.
  • Container utilisation reporting.
  • Forwarder allocation reporting.

This module is one of many available in the Lighthouse system. To discuss your business requirements in more detail with an ediTRACK adviser, contact us today.