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.

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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
† Windows Only
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