The Breakbulk System is designed to automate
the day to day activities of a Breakbulk
office in such a way that many of the tedious
routine clerical tasks are produced by the
system. Additionally, all accounting functions
are updated live from operations. The system
maintains files for originating and sending
agents, airlines, ports, charge codes, foreign
currencies and consignees.
There are many checks and validations within
the system to ensure that the data entered is
error free and ready for the various reports
and documents which can be printed from the
system.
Management Reports Produced:
Parameter driven sales reports offering upi to
12 parameters.
Daily log of all manifests completed during
the day
List of all invoices <paid and unpaid> which
have been transferred to Accounts Receivable
Exception list of all invoiced where the
amount paid differs from the invoice amount
showing the reason why this difference has
occurred
List of HAWB <or Houseflies> which should have
produced an invoice and failed to do so. This
list further explains the reason why these
transactions have been rejected.
Documents Generated
Inbond preparation/print custom form 7512
Consignees Authority to make entry (with or
without charges)
Carriers certificate ( with or without
charges)
Delivery order preparation/print (long or
short form
Invoice preparation/print
Tracking and tracing
The system provides a flexible and powerful
method of tracing shipments entered into the
system. The operator may trace a shipment by
any one of the following criterion including
but not limited to:
Master number
House Number
Container Number
Date entered into the system
Import Date
In-bond number
Port of lading
Port of destination
Foreign currency conversion
The system utilizes the currency conversion
rated form the ABI system ad also form the
maintenance section of the break bulk system
with the ability to override the displayed
rated and also add an additional markup to the
displayed rates.
Transfer of information to CHB
The system provides a mechanism for which you
can transfer break bulk bills to the CHB
system for clearance thereby eliminating the
need to enter the same data twice
Additional features
MAWB and HAWB billing entry process
The import break bulk system provides the user
with a fast and efficient way of entering
master and house bills into the system
Standardized billing procedures identical to
the rest of the FDS subsystem
IT Generation
Hierarchical Inquiry on 16 different search
options
Consolidator reporting
Sales Reporting
Automatic HAWB Numbering
Real time
customer/broker/agent/consignee/shipper
updated for the future inquiry reference Real
time/on line help features
Error message prompting
Ability for Custom fine tuning of the system
to your specify company needs without the
custom programming costs
Customer service - The Import Break Bulk
System commands a powerful customer support
service feature which makes it considerably
easier to deal with customer inquiries.
Profitability Reporting And Analysis:
The BreakBulk system offers a number of
reporting capabilities which “drill down” to
allow for analysis using any number of
combinations of
Date Range Ocean and/or Air Files
Consignee Shipper
Consolidation Destination
Branch Agent
Broker ETC...
Integration With Internet and/or Intranet
Module:
The features and capabilities of the Web Inquiry module will allow for a
download path, of ANY existing and/or ad-hoc
reports , to an Excel Spreadsheet. These
reports can then be made available and
published to either an INTERNET and/or an
INTRANET server.
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