WebTrack offers FCL’s customers a very cost-effective means of providing Web-based Consignment Tracking
services. For the freight agent’s average client, WebTrack will satisfy their requirements completely.
However, in the context of full supply chain management, Consignment Tracking doesn’t cater for the
notion of an Order as an entity in its own right. As a result, WebTrack can only offer visibility of
a portion of the lifecycle of an Order. The more complex accounts will, ultimately, demand this.
ForwardVision is the brand name for FCL’s Supply Chain and Order Management system. It provides complete
visibility of Orders throughout their lifecycle, to all of the parties involved in the supply chain.
It enables customers’ Sales or Purchase Order information to be recorded, down to line item (SKU) detail.
User-defined Milestone “Critical Paths” and “Events” facilitate flexible Order status monitoring and
tracking. Using ForwardOffice, the forwarder performs its day-to-day supply chain functions and progresses
Orders through to final delivery.
Based on the FCL-ASP platform, the Web-based element of ForwardVision, which this document describes, allows involved parties to benefit from world-wide, security-controlled, real-time access to enquire on and update Order information.
ForwardVision’s inherent flexibility allows the forwarder to tailor a solution around their customers’
specific trade requirements. This can offer a major competitive advantage when tendering for new business.
Ultimately, it enables the forwarder to integrate their customers’ systems more closely with their own,
providing a pivotal means of locking them in.
Demonstration:
To gain access to the ForwardVision demonstration, you will require a logon ID and password and you will also
need information about the data on which the demonstration is based. To obtain the latter, please contact your
account representative, or FCL direct on: -
Telephone +44 (0)115 938 0280
e-Mail support@forward-comp.co.uk
Launch ForwardVision demonstration
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 Key Features:
• ForwardVision is provided through the FCL-ASP
platform
• FCL acts as a service provider, cushioning
its customers from complex and costly issues of
Internet access: -
• We provide the Web server
• We provide the broadband communications
link to the Internet
• We deal with firewall and Internet
security issues
• FCL undertakes all of the support and
maintenance functions
• It is simplicity itself to integrate ForwardVision
into your own Web site
• ForwardVision is activated selectively for those
customers that you choose to provide it to
• You allocate logon ID’s, passwords, security levels
and privileges, thus ensuring secure and controlled
access
• From a growing library of “User Interfaces”, choose
the one most appropriate to your customer’s type of
trade
• Define owner and trade-specific Milestone “Critical
Paths” for status monitoring, tracking and progress
reporting
• Provided they have the correct privilege, users can
create new Orders and Order Items at will
• Parties can only view Orders with which they have a
direct involvement
• Request on-line SQL-style reports, listing Orders
that match specific search filters
• Drill down to individual Order detail
• From Order Header, drill to:
• Order Item (SKU) detail
• Milestones
• Consignment detail
• Diary/Memo records can also be created and selectively
exposed to different parties, allowing unlimited
narrative to be made visible
• Optional integration with e-Document Management
allows documents and images to be selectively exposed
• Security and ownership-controlled Milestone updates
• Integrated with Event Management - when Milestones
completed by a user via the Web, relevant Events are
queued
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