Physical Parcel 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.