Dock Scheduling

Dock Scheduling

by | Sep 13, 2015 | Visibility, TMS

The Challenge

The trucking industry loses an estimated $1.3 billion a year waiting at customer facilities to pick up or deliver cargo. One of the top reasons for driver turnover is wasted time sitting at warehouse docks; for truckers who get paid by the mile, time is of the essence. Inefficient dock scheduling and yard operations also negatively impact shippers both in terms of higher rates and lost productivity. In fact, most shippers and consignees estimate their schedulers spend 40% of their time scheduling and managing appointments.

The Solution – IntelliTrans TMS Dock Scheduling

IntelliTrans’ dock door scheduling tool, DockMaster℠, is a SaaS-based application that provides the real-time visibility necessary to make scheduling dock appointments easier and more accurate. By using DockMaster, shippers and carriers can improve communication and reduce errors, improve labor planning and use reporting tools to measure performance.  Shippers use DockMaster to schedule pickups and deliveries by their selected carriers, routing them to a pre-assigned loading or unloading door. And, carriers can schedule dock appointments quickly and easily via DockMaster without having to make time-intensive phone calls.

Features

  • Automatic or interactive scheduling (your choice)
  • Efficient, real-time visibility and communication
  • Business rule customization
  • Advance shipping notifications and proofs of delivery
  • Cycle time and other types of performance reporting
  • Configure an appointment book for any location in minutes based on that location’s business rules
    • 2 doors or 200 doors
    • 4 hours per week day or 24 hours 7 days per week
  • Allow carriers to schedule directly from their browser or require approval for the requested appointment
  • Allow inter or intra-company visibility of load status – a boon to customer self-service
  • Use scheduling as part of a comprehensive IntelliTrans TMS solution, or use it as a stand-alone
  • Use outbound and subsequent inbound scheduling to provide Advance Shipping Notification and Proof Of Delivery up and down the supply chain

Dock Scheduling Software

 

Benefits

  • Easy-to-use
  • It’s the cloud – login anytime and anywhere
  • Carriers, keep your drivers on the road – not waiting around at the docks
  • Shippers, achieve labor cost savings, reduce administrative costs, and reduce detention charges from carriers
  • Gain efficiency and reduce congestion at the docks
  • Improve communications with business partners
  • Maximize the use of dock assets
  • Improve labor planning

ONE SHIPPER WENT FROM 64% OF LOADS SUBJECT TO DEMURRAGE TO 15%, IN THE FIRST MONTH!

 
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Automated Freight Invoice Auditing & Payment

Automated Freight Invoice Auditing & Payment

by | Jun 2, 2015 | Services

Transportation is a primary cost driver for many companies. Research from Accenture shows that transportation represents “upwards of $30-$60 million for every $1 billion in material cost for product-based companies”. Besides the enormity of transportation costs, there is also an astounding amount of cryptic invoices and inaccurate billing floating around. This means auditing procedures that ensure accuracy spell big savings. While freight payments seems like a single function, there are many elements that freight invoice auditing and payment services uncover such as automating labor-intensive processes and most importantly giving customers the data to focus on true savings opportunities.

 

Automated Freight Invoice Auditing and Payment with IntelliTrans TMS

The IntelliTrans TMS provides a centralized repository for rate, shipment, transaction, and invoice details, helping shippers not only automate invoice auditing and payment but also identify exceptions based on a multitude of variables. The system performs a 3-way match between shipment, invoice, and rate (both contract and tariff) while handling multiple pricing conditions such as Rule 11 shipments and rates based on car type, owner, and net weight. Additionally, our TMS matches invoice fuel surcharge and accessorial charges to accessorial and fuel schedules, mileage, and shipment information already stored in the system. We even offer the ability to electronically transmit approvals to outside payment systems and generate reports of approved invoices. IntelliTrans also performs freight payment services for our clients.

 

Transportation Spend Analytics & Reporting

Conducting analysis on historical spend data will lead to major insights as to where the most money can be saved, so it is important that your system acts as a single repository for all freight invoice data that can easily be analyzed. Some systems can also present activity-based reporting by cross-referencing active shipments with contract rates and current invoices, which can help pinpoint the greatest areas of improvement.

Don’t underestimate the benefits of automated freight payment and auditing. Easily catching billing inaccuracies and analyzing historical invoices could lead to an array of savings lurking just beneath the surface. Want to see how our TMS helps with rating, auditing, and payment? We’d be happy to schedule a demo!

IntelliTrans TMS Integrates with DAT’s Load Boards

IntelliTrans TMS Integrates with DAT’s Load Boards

by | Jan 13, 2015 | TMS

Our SaaS-based transportation management system (TMS) is fully integrated with DAT load boards, enabling shippers and third-party logistics providers (3PLs) to use a single system to manage contract freight, private fleets, and spot market moves.

By integrating our TMS and DAT load boards, which processes more than an estimated 4.6 million load postings per month, we simplify and reduce the number of steps necessary to tender a load. Instead of having to open several applications, a shipper can now open a single frame and view all the necessary information with immediate access to various functions.

“This enhancement fulfills a fundamental component of our acquisition strategy to merge disparate systems and reduce inefficiencies in transportation systems,” said the president of TransCore. “In a market where capacity is scarce, this simplified design will allow shippers and 3PLs access to a vibrant spot market and increase their asset utilization. Likewise, brokers will have a greater capacity selection.”

DAT Load Board

Advanced Supply Chain Analytics

Advanced Supply Chain Analytics

by | Jan 1, 2015 | Services

A picture is worth 1,031.45 words.

Our new supply chain analytics feature produces visualizations that help you see and understand your Visibility and TMS data.

Shipment Analysis
Dive into trip information by product, trip counts, transit time analysis, dwell time analysis, trip count analysis, and tonnage analysis.

Fleet Cycle Analysis
Fleet analysis that includes data by specific lanes and cars, actual turns, origin dwell, destination dwell, products shipped, and transit information.

Carrier Performance
Scorecard carrier performance based on metrics like on-time delivery/pickup and proof of delivery timeliness.

Spend
Analyze the details of your spend across categories like charge types, carriers, lanes, and customers to identify additional ways to control your costs.

Customer Health
Monitor how well you are serving your customers.

 

Other Use Cases
  • Bad order and storage reports
  • Visualizing geographic problems (e.g. dwell time)
  • Upper management presentations
  • Fleet management and visibility
  • Rate analysis
  • Asset locations in relation to problematic weather events
  • On-time delivery management
  • Least-cost carrier utilization
  • Load factor analyses
  • And many more…
Please contact us today to see how you can use data visualizations to boost your supply chain analytics capabilities.
Yard Management System

Yard Management System

by | Dec 12, 2014 | Visibility

Streamline your yard activity with our SaaS-based Yard Management System.

YardRunner℠, our Yard Management System (YMS), provides unique capabilities to manage your rail yards with increased levels of integration and visibility. Finding the information you need is made easy with our querying, reporting, and interactive map features. Key capabilities include:

  • Automated data capture with TransCore’s fixed and hand-held AEI readers.
  • Interactive maps for visualization and drag & drop switch list creation.
  • Railcar images match equipment type and are color-coded by status.
  • Create inbound, outbound, and internal switch lists, including the ability to do this by using “drag-and-drop” functionality on the yard map.
  • Generate Bills of Lading.
  • Load, unload, and inspect railcars, including assigning orders to railcars.
  • Utilization of our Tank Car Loader for optimizing the loading of tank cars.
  • Reporting & querying tools.
  • Calculate detention and demurrage charges.

Click here to learn more about our YMS, which is fully integrated with our Global Visibility Platform.

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