Managing Air freight, Sea Freight and land freight through a SaaS-based ERP Software
What is a SaaS-based ERP Software?
SaaS ERP is a category of cloud-based ERP model that operates on a vendor’s servers and is available to companies to be used remotely for their organisation’s software, hosting and storage needs. It follows a subscription model system where the vendor charges the company on a monthly/ quarterly or yearly basis and provides them security, updates and other IT services over the internet.
How to manage Air freight, Sea Freight, and land freight through a SaaS-based ERP Software?
Air/ Sea Freight: An air/ ocean freight software would be ideal for facilitating the end-to-end planning and execution of shipping and cargo processes, both by retail and large vendors. It should include specific checklists for items which are being transported on cargo end-to-end from source to destination, or items that are being shipped on cargo as a part of their bigger supply chain.
The ERP software in logistics must include basic necessities such as customer quotations, trade documents such as cargo invoice etc., participating companies and their financier details, settlement updates, etc. The software must be thorough and built while considering the exceptions and problems a cargo carrier might face at sea or in air and should be able to integrate operational processes with commercial ones. The objective of deploying such software is to minimise workload and losses while implementing automated allocation of resources and labour.
Land Freight: The ideal logistics software must be designed in a manner so as to consolidate all received orders and minimise the transportation expenditure. This can be done by deploying AI and algorithms to determine the fastest and shortest routes to the destination, planning for the toll taxes and other expenses like breakdown, servicing of vehicles, etc. in advance.
The software must aid users in transportation planning by forecasting the demand, volumes, costs, etc. The cost should be calculated, keeping in mind the international currency fluctuations, and considering the terms in a contract. Power BI and dashboards must enable companies to collaborate with other players on the portal, calculate requirements for freight, fleet, and logistics planning, all this in a cloud setup. All freight and cargos must have real-time visibility and tracking in order to work with compliance and legal obligations associated with each shipment.
FAQs
Q1. Why is the Saas ERP required by my business?
Adopting SaaS based ERP in Logistics is advantageous to organisations in the way that it lowers their capital requirement for implementing technology, allows for shorter deployment cycles, is highly scalable, and can be easily upgraded to a newer version.
Any company planning to expand its field of operations, or looking to take its service from a workshop to an internet platform would definitely like to explore its options with the SaaS ERP. Given the dynamic nature of client demands, businesses need to expand from time to time. SaaS helps businesses achieve this at no or very low costs, with almost no additional infrastructure and IT resource deployment.
Q2. What are some features of a good Freight Management System?
An ideal Freight Management System must have the following thought out provisions in its software system to make your shipping experience seamless and profitable:
· Must take into account an assorted scope of areas
· Should be easily workable with Third Party Logistics
· Enable adaptability, quick up-gradation, and development
· Logistics and Supply Chain Management supported by Cloud
· Interactive and real-time Dashboards to track the progress of each shipment
· Integrated Suite and powerful BI systems
· Upload, storage and sharing of Documentation pertaining to a freight
· Invoice analysis and budget estimates for clients
· Transportation synchronisation for scheduling of fleet, carriers and workmen involved
· Must support complex Networking among vendors and carriers
· Automated Freight Logistics and expense tracker
Q3. Which are the popular Freight Management Software?
- LoadManager
- FreightPOP
- GoFreight
- BrokerPRO
- CargoWise One
Conclusion
If you are an organisation looking to take your logistics business from a manual or physical setup to the internet-based services environment, the processes will involve extensive research. Carefully analyse your own business requirements and map them to the offerings of an ERP software. There is a plethora of software to choose from, but you must select the one that aligns to your business model, objectives, goals, capital structure, and future plans.
Whatever your business needs, we can provide you with a full range of solutions. For questions or more information, drop me an email at emarketing@newage-global.com or contact our team.
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