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Transport Management

The Crux of Organized Logistics

Efficient software solutions contribute considerably to lowering costs for transport and operational performance.

The following areas can be automated with a great degree of process security:

Processing incoming transport orders and shipping data and organizing transports.
Wording calls for bids and contracts for transport services.
Planning transports with the best segmentation; planning routes.
Empties management and empties evaluation.
Controlling the course of transports and supply chain event management.
Invoicing transports, freight checks, voucher methods.

If optimized, these steps sustain reduced operational costs. They achieve the best exploitation of resources and enhance service levels. Intricate interdependencies, networks, and complicated tariffs become transparent and controllable. Analyses and reports reveal further potential for optimization.

Planning Transport and Logistics

XCargo is a pocket calculator for logisticians: Microsoft Excel equipped with important logistics functions. It enables fast and efficient transport cost calculation, route planning, and location choice advice for small to medium-sized companies.

Optimize transport channels.
Plan transport costs.
Plan routes.
Optimize location choices.

Interactive Route Planning and Optimizing

Intertour, software produced by our associate enterprise PTV, provides planning assistance across the whole range of transport. Combined with LOCOM’s freight invoicing software CARGO, it lists the transport costs for planned trips for the period you are planning.

Graphs and charts that support planning collection and distribution transports.
Automatic route planning for long hauls and milk runs.
Route recommendations with manual re-setting option.

Freight Invoicing and Freight Cost Control

CARGO controls freight invoicing automatically. Based on the work flow, CARGO moves through the invoicing process, providing clear and secure assistance for all activities from importing the data to generating accounting records.