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SA-FMS data analysis tool revisited

Wednesday, April 20th, 2011

Today's freight logistics business environment is complex and challenging, and to stand out from the crowd it is imperative for small and medium businesses reorient themselves and adopt informed decision making best practices so that senior managers and business owners can control what they can measure.

In an earlier post, we mentioned about management information from the Data analysis tool for SA-FMS. Here we are covering some valuable statistical data generated that can bring deep business insights for effective decision making.

Commodity analysis

  • Business contribution of any given commodity transported
  • Average freight realisation and packages carried by these commodities
  • Percentage of short / excess reported on these consignments

Booking analysis

  • Percentage of business contribution to different delivery centres
  • Average freight realisation to all connected delivery centres
  • Average dispatch time to between these centers

Transshipment performance

  • Tonnage handled by each of the transshipment centres
  • Wait time for consignment dispatches to various centres
  • Consignment stock ageing analysis

Consignor and consignee business

  • Business volume over a period with freight realisation
  • Complaints registered on consignments
  • Delays in booking dispatch, transit time and last mile delivery

SA-FMS is a logistics software solution that helps multi branch freight logistics service providers grow their business through better operational control and lower cost of servicing customers. Available in Mumbai, Bangalore, Indore, Kolkata and Kochi.

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SA-FMS waybill profitability tracking

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

We often see that the cost of servicing the consignor is not taken into consideration while computing the freight, whereas clients are always on the lookout for the most competitive freight charges from logistics service providers . There is often the tendency for sales and marketing  departments to offer special rates to consignors and consignees without proper knowledge on the expenses incurred on each transaction. It is often difficult calculate cost involvement manually for every waybill. The costs could include attributes such as

  • Door collection charges
  • Truck hire (Shared/full load)
  • Loading and unloading charges
  • Basic freight
  • Door delivery charges
  • Delivery collection

SA-FMS has intellgent reports that allow customers evaluate the cost of each transaction by applying the costs at various centers from booking, transshipment and delivery for the parcel service industry

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SA-FMS logistics software – measure, control and profit

Monday, January 3rd, 2011

Freight Management System, India, Africa, Middle East

One of the key benefits of FMS ERP solution for freight logistics industry is the central monitoring system that saves time and money for key audit and finance personnel in tracking the authenticity of transactions being performed at the branches located at different centres.

The branch profitability report is a one click, drill down Management Information System that allows supervisors and senior decision makers get a birds eye view of the performance of branches on a monthly basis, take informed decisions on adding routes, introducing flexi pricing schemes, optimise transshipment points, manage cash flows, provide inputs to key departments such as traffic management, marketing & business development.

Few of the information includes

  • Cash book summary
  • Bank balances
  • Top 10 receipts and payments
  • Top 10 delivery destinations
  • Top 5 trans-shipment centres
  • Consignor business volume
  • Godown stock valuation
  • Consignment stock ageing
  • Undercharged consignments
  • Sundry debtors

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Jai Bharat Roadlines chooses SA-FMS

Friday, November 26th, 2010

Jai Bharat Roadlines, a fast growing transport company based at Western transport hub Mumbai, shown their confidence on SA-FMS  to accelerate their growth. Headed by Mr.V.K Gopinath with 10 operating branches in Maharashtra & south India, selected SA-FMS logistics software to improve their parcel services and making "Express Delivery" as their core-competency.

Growing your business is a matter of choice and if you are keen to take the challenging route, we bring the required skills and resources to help you modernise your logistics business, formulate organization vision, mission and recipes for a scalable business model.

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Logistics Software for Bombay Carriers

Monday, August 16th, 2010

We are pleased to announce the acquisition of our new client for SA-FMS, The Tirupur (Tamilnadu) based logistics provider operates in niche area of hosiery and textiles, intends to use the Logistics suite to enable them reduce operations costs, centralised monitoring of goods traffic, higher management control and to broaden scale of operations across geographic boundaries. The client has offices at Coimbatore, Madurai, Trichy and Mumbai

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Consignment tracking software – India, Africa

Saturday, April 24th, 2010
Branch integration is one of the key factors that separates SA-FMS from solutions that are exist in mid-tier logistics ERP space.

Initially, at individual branches, the default search engaged is for local data whereas at central office, it is an organisation wide global search.  At branches, once a local search based on a waybill turns null, it prompts the user to look for the waybill using global search – connecting booking – delivery – transshipment and transit consignments to return the last known status and the entire history of the waybill through various branches.  Global search enables in faster responses to customer queries, reduced communication costs and better informed decision making.

FMS is being used by a few BGTA member companies

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Logistics software in Bangalore

Friday, April 9th, 2010

Sharma transport with 60 branch network across South and West India ; has chosen SA-FMS ERP solution for freight logistics industry.

Sharma Transport, Bangalore provides cargo facility for nearly all kinds of permissible products ranging from food, flowers, small plants, mail, couriers, machinery parts, household items etc. Best quality of vehicles are used for transportation. Apart from general carriers, they also make use of spacious Volvo buses for cargo. sa-fms brings considerable cost saving business processes and technologies that would enable Sharma Transport to scale operations and improve customer service.

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Data analytics for freight logistics & supply chain industries

Monday, March 1st, 2010

SA-FMS has a versatile management information tool which can give you new perspectives on how your freight logistics and supply chain businesses are performing. Gives insights on branches, trucks,  trips, customers, delivery centres, operations management, transshipment points etc. The easy to use tool has a permutation combination of over 1000 report views to choose from to aid management in informed decision making.

Supply chain logistics information system

  • Station analysis with from,To, Freight,Weight,  Avg wt / package. Avg freight / consignment
  • Dispatch – Tonnage, Freight, From, To, Truck or broker consolidation
  • Stock position – Branch wise, From, To, tonnage, Avg freight / consignment
  • Dispatch analysis  – From,To, Packages, Weight, Avg time  (days)
  • Booking – Delivery time (Unloading date – dispatch date) From – To station
  • Delivery point stock aging (packages, freight, weight)
  • Top 50 consignors, to pay,paid,to be billed, From,To, Commodity
  • Top 25 routes, freight, Packages, Weight analysis
  • Commodity analysis – From,To,Freight,Weight, Average wt / consignment, avg freight
  • Monthly branch performance analysis

Freight logistics Data Analysis – Features and benefits

  • Carry the snapshot data on your laptop to do the analysis while you are on the move.
  • One click information access
  • Export to excel, word or other formats for presentation purposes
  • Lightweight application, One click install

SA-FMS, the logistics ERP solution is used by by customers in cities like Bangalore, New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kochi, Madurai, Coimbatore, and Lucknow

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Vehicle tracking and consignment enquiry

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

A GSM/GPRS based vehicle tracking system is an alternative to the expensive satellite based vehicle tracking systems being used by freight and logistics companies in the Western countries. All these solutions are capable of tracking the company fleet of trucks and keeping the traffic control information on the location and speed of various trucks operating throughout the country. The GPS also helps in tracking stolen trucks, a common problem for those operating in some regions of India. Usually a gadget is installed in the vehicle to be monitored – a remote station for centralised control and monitoring.

SA-FMS can integrate with these industry standard devices to provide up to date position of the consignment for customers.

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Freight Logistics software – industry process

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

Booking process

The party who makes the booking is called the consignor and the receiver is the consignee. If both are the same, it is booked as "Self"

There are three modes of payment – Paid consignment (Cash) / To pay consignment (Paid on delivery ) and To Be Billed (Monthly Billed)

Freight is calculated on the basis of a matrix consisting of total weight (Charged weight for volume / low density goods), number of packages, value of goods carried and other factors such as Door delivery.

For some consignments the consignor would insist on an acknowledgement copy (Proof of Delivery)

Some consignees and consignors have special rates for specific stations or commodities (eg, tooth paste, ball bearings).

This document is called the Waybill (Three copies. Consignor, Consignee and Truck) – also known as Goods Consignment Note /  Builty / CN

Goods are despatched on the basis of availability of vehicles. Own trucks and hired. Each truck carries a document called vehicle manifest (VA) / Vehicle Agreement which is the proof of goods carried and also for checkpost declaration at state borders. SA-F.M.S provides route management and first in first out loading processes.

Goods can be sent directly or through transit points for sake of load factoring or truck availability (Transshipment point module available). Sometimes due to human errors, all consignments need not necessarily be sent in one lot. Partial dispatches do happen and the arrival at point B might be recorded in two or three trips. Effective tracking of consignment is vital for a freight software.

The process of loading and unloading are done on a first in first out basis / sometime on the basis of routes. Loading and Unloading charts are kept to track consignments.

On arrival at the delivery station the goods are recorded in the Inward register

Delivery process

The consignee brings his copy of the waybill, the delivery is made. Certain charges are collected from the consignee if the goods are not cleared within stipulated days (Demmurage).

Some local handling and stationery charges are also collected. In case of missing consignee copy, an Indemnity bond is requested and delivery made. A Delivery Receipt (DR) is prepared for all consignments

It might so happen that the consignee might not take delivery of the goods due to (1) Late delivery (2) Damaged (3) no longer in business (4) Perishable goods expiry (5) Missing items (6) Wrong items

Notices are sent to the concerned parties after 45 days and removed / auctioned or sent back to the consignor if he is willing to bear the return freight charges (Re booking)

Some of the reports generated in Freight Management System

Daily booking statement
Daily Delivery statement
Cash statement
Monthly booking analysis
Branch wise Freight Analysis report
To be billed report
Branch Stock aging analysis
Route stock analysis
Debtor aging analysis
Branch business analysis
Monthly to be billed analysis

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