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Accurate freight management solutions such as waybill and POD tracking can boost the efficiency and reliability of your business, improving your standing with valued clients and maximising your profit. Parcel Perfect™ has innovative waybill and POD tracking solutions that will give you greater control over your business.
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| Parcel Freight Management - Collections |
- Collections can be set up as recurring, or they can be captured as once-off
entries.
- Each of your customer entries contains a list of all addresses from
and to which they have shipped. During the collection capture,
the operators can select one of these addresses from
a simple drop-down list, or they can enter a new address if needed.
- Once the collection has been captured, the operators have
the option of assigning the collection to one of your drivers
or agents. This is done by dragging the collection to the relevant
group, or by selecting the driver from a drop-down list of
available drivers in that area.
- As soon as the collection is assigned to a driver, an SMS
is automatically generated and sent directly to that driver's
cell phone. This message contains the exact physical address
of the collection, as well as additional details such as the
closing time. In this way, each driver has an accurate list
of all collections on his cell phone. Since an SMS costs less
than 20c on an appropriate messenger contract, these freight management solutions make for vast savings in telephone costs.
- Once the driver has made the collection, he simply sends a return SMS with a unique collection code and the collection is automatically
marked as collected.
- Collection status is colour coded in such a way that operators
can see at a glance the status on all outstanding collections
for the day. As the closing time of each customer approaches,
the status colour changes, meaning that drivers can be re-routed
where necessary.
- As collections are checked in, the final destination address
and other details are captured from the physical waybills.
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| Parcel Freight Management - Consolidations |
- Once collections have been checked in, all packages destined
for other areas may be consolidated onto manifests.
- The destination place of each parcel is selected beforehand
in the collection module, or via one of the waybill capture
forms through a drop-down list. This destination place determines the
hub to which the parcel should be manifested, and is entirely configurable.
- Manifests are generated for each of your line-haulers to
your destination hubs.
- The costs of the manifest are divided between all packages,
using the rates that you have set up for each of your line-haulers
or air-carriers.
- The manifest may be printed out or emailed directly from Parcel
Perfect™ to the destination hub.
- If you receive a manifest from another company that also
uses Parcel Perfect™, you can import all
waybill information electronically on the manifest onto your system, instantly
and with 100% accuracy.
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| Parcel Freight Management - Deliveries |
- The destination place determines the destination hub, as
well as the area surrounding the hub where the delivery is to take
place. This determines which of your agents or drivers can be allocated to do that delivery.
- Drivers can be automatically or manually assigned to each
delivery, either through manual selection from a drop-down
list or through barcode scanning.
- Once assigned, the deliveries for a driver or agent are grouped
onto a tripsheet, which can then be printed and used when making
deliveries.
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| Freight Management - Proof
of Delivery (POD) Tracking and Imaging |
- Once a delivery driver returns with a POD, or once an agent submits
their POD to you, these documents can be captured into Parcel Perfect™ for tracking purposes.
- You can decide on the level of detail that you would like
to capture – the most basic would be the date, time and
the name of the person that signed for the delivery, and the
most comprehensive being a complete image scan of the POD.
- Should you wish to scan the POD images, these are linked directly
to the waybills in Parcel Perfect™, allowing for very easy for POD tracking
that can be viewed by any of the operators. From here they can be printed, emailed
or faxed directly from Parcel Perfect™.
- Using our POD requester, your customers can request POD images
directly from Parcel Perfect™ without any user intervention.
The system will send the required images within seconds to their email
inboxes.
- Your customers can obtain basic POD information using the
Parcel Perfect™ SMS requester, which sends POD details
to the customer immediately via SMS.
At the end of each day or week, you can fax or email
a consolidated POD report of all POD's processed since their last report to your customers automatically.
- For larger customers, you can provide groups of POD images
on CD, together with their invoices with a single mouse-click.
- Missing POD reports are listed by agent, allowing you to follow-up with
drivers and agents.
- If some of your deliveries are done by another company
that also uses Parcel Perfect™, the POD's that they
capture for your delivery can be imported to your system
electronically, making the POD tracking process much easier.
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| Freight Management - Barcode Scanning |
- Packages can be scanned by barcode as they arrive or leave
each hub. This stamps them with a date and time, and is extremely valuable
for tracking purposes.
- Bar-coded labels can be generated by Parcel
Perfect™ using a barcode printer, or barcodes can be pre-printed
on waybills.
- Barcode scanning can be set up in a number of ways, and for
a configurable number of events. If required, these events
would be customised your needs.
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| Waybill
Pre-Prints and Distributions |
- Parcel Perfect™ can pre-print waybill sender details
for a specified customer onto carbonated waybills.
- If a customer of doing a distribution to a group
of recipients, each of the addresses can be
set up permanently under that customer for repeat use. You can then print
waybills for the entire recipient group.
- Any number of recipient groups can be set up for each of
your customers.
- Customer address information for bulk distributions can be
imported into Parcel Perfect™ directly from an Excel spreadsheet.
- Waybill information can be imported into Parcel Perfect™ from
an Excel spreadsheet. This avoids the capture of multiple waybills
from customers who can provide information in an electronic
format.
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| Waybill
and Manifest Notes |
- These notes provide an essential way of keeping track of
high value shipments and other waybills that require
more attention than the regular items.
- Miscellaneous notes can be entered by any operator, at any
time, under any of the waybills or manifests.
- Each of these notes are automatically time and date stamped,
and stored with the operator's name under the relevant waybill.
- Notes can be captured by manifest, for example, if a flight
is delayed, and will be applied to all waybills on that manifest.
An operator viewing the notes on one of those waybills will
also be able to see the manifest notes.
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