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Automated Freight Billing and Rating
- With automated rating
and billing you can significantly improve the efficiency and accuracy of your
rating. Multiple price levels are handled automatically with the designation of
up to an 8-digit rate level in the customer
tariff master file. This allows for a unique tariff for each customer if necessary.
- Customize and maintain an unlimited number of your own rate
tariffs in addition to:
- The rating and billing program can be set up to account for up to five interline-agent
revenue splits.
- The differentiation between intrastate and interstate shipments can be set
up either globally or by customer via the tariff master files.
- The program allows for Master billing including drop off charges and part
lots.
- Commonly used
descriptions of commodities can be pre-built and used by the billers to eliminate
redundant entries. This is especially helpful when billing lengthy hazardous bills.
- We offer full EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) capabilities including the
ability to send and/or receive bills of lading, invoices and shipment status data
sets.
- Display freight
bills on-line at any time.
- Reprint all documents:
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Flexible
Daily Reports
- TransFormation offers flexible reporting in many areas to assist in managing
your daily operations. Just a few of those areas are:
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Daily
Revenue Accounting
- The closing
menu provides a structured path to the daily process of closing and accounting
for freight bills. The procedure allows for detailed reporting and auditing of
daily revenue. The closing is totally automated, so invoices print for all freight
bills closed on any given day and accounts receivable is updated. This automation
allows for daily volume and revenue tracking keeping Operations informed of relevant
information in a timely manner.
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Equipment
- The equipment program allows the ability to track your equipment by location,
mileage, services performed or services due. Once a unit is updated with services
performed, it also updates the next service due.
- Display on-line status of equipment location, dispatch, services performed
or due, fuel/miles, hours, drivers, etc..
- The equipment maintenance programs allow you to:
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OS&D
/ Claims
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Master
File Maintenance
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Operations
- The Operations program offers all of the components needed to complete your
daily operational tasks including automated
routing and manifesting.
- Create and print delivery
manifests and and line
manifests.
- Print delivery
receipts.
- The Freight Pickup
program enables you to schedule
automatic pickups for specific customers. The Pickup program also allows shippers
to call any location in your system to request
a pickup. Once the pickup request is entered in the system, the appropriate
dispatcher is automatically notified, through the messaging system, to check his
unassigned pickups
for details. We also have the software to handle on-line pickup requests via the
Internet.
- The dispatch program allows access to all real time load information. Important
customer information
such as credit status, special handling requirements and dock hours can be accessed
prior to committing to a pickup, allowing complete control of load planning. Load
information can also be displayed by driver, route or location enabling all users
to have timely information for customers.
- The Appointment
Management program allows for interactive appointment scheduling.
- Tracing shipments is specifically designed to allow the ultimate in flexibility.
Customer service is the principle behind the development of the tracing program.
TransFormation offers access to all relevant shipment information through inquiry.
Some of the tracing features are by:
- Freight Bill number
- Shippers number
- Purchase Order number
- Customer Name
- Customer Number
- Shipment Date
- Zip Code
- Telephone Number
- Street Address
- City
- The Tracing programs provide the customer representative with the flexibility
needed for both parties to realize substantial benefit from the prompt availability
of information.
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Accounts
Receivable
- Accounts receivable is a primary concern of any company. TGIF software was
designed for the needs of motor carriers and is continually upgraded for improvement.
- We offer flexible cash
entry with the ability to print deposit
slips. Cash receipts may be entered by:
- Customer name
- Customer number
- Pro number
- Interline pro number
- Bill of lading number
- Purchase order number
- Statement number
- On-line freight bills can be accessed utilizing various search modes.
- Inquiry by pro number provides delivery and OS&D information, including delivery
date and signature so you can give instant verbal proof of deliveries.
- Inquiry by customer
provides current information on account balances and can be accessed in various
ways including the customers telephone number.
- On-line open A/R
summary aging by customer or dollar amount, with the ability to display invoice
detail, provides expedience on collection efforts.
- Set up call back
dates for collection purposes.
- Print statements and past due notices on demand.
- Various types of inquiry and account
aging are all part of the A/R system.
- As with all components A/R is completely integrated with G/L
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Accounts
Payable
- The Accounts Payable program handles everything from entry and aging of invoices,
with automatic check writing to full management reporting.
- Payments can be handled on an individual basis or pre-scheduled by date.
- This program allows the ability to handle Interlines
Payable as a separate function from the regular payables.
- On-line history and on-line invoice inquiry are accessible by:
- Invoice number
- Voucher number
- Check number
- Vendor number
- Bank code
- Date range
- Open or paid
- An on-line Open A/P
Summary aging allows a quick view of the payables by customer or dollar amount
with access to invoice detail.
- The A/P system is totally integrated to interlines payable, claims, driver
settlements and the general ledger, including automatic accrual of journal entries.
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General
Ledger
- The General Ledger system ties the other systems together to provide timely,
accurate financial information to help you manage your business.
- Features include:
- The chart of accounts numbering system is the ICC chart of accounts (xxxx.xx).
In addition, there are provisions for terminal or branch designation (up to 9999)
with separate terminal
P & L statements available.
- For control purposes entries to prior periods are not allowed.
- The Asset Accounting
System provides for tracking of all assets and allows for automatic depreciation/amortization
journal entries to the general ledger.
- Additional uses include:
- Tracking of vehicle registration expiration.
- Prepaid license
- Insurance
- Supplies
- Taxes
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Payroll
- The Payroll System was designed for the trucking industry and will handle
both union and non-union payroll for hourly, mileage and line type payrolls.
- All necessary information to automatically calculate payroll taxes and workers
compensation expense is stored in the employee
master file.
- The Payroll System handles all special
deductions including sec. 125 and 401k.
- Quarterly and annual reports as well as W2's are produces.
- Payroll also integrates Human Resources providing reports by user defined
parameters.
- Dates can be pre-coded
for automated activation of deductions and wage changes.
- Daily reports
are available to show expenses by location and or job class.
- Daily payroll input may be done at individual locations.
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Driver
Settlements
- The Driver Settlement program allows the ability to track settlements for
shipments that are handled by contracted drivers or drivers who earn a percentage
of the shipment payment including employee drivers.
- This program is integrated into both the Billing and Accounts Payable systems,
with no additional keying of information required.
- Individual payment criteria can be set up in the driver's master file and
deductions made automatically for unauthorized release of collect shipments.
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Sales
- The Sales program is a separate menu designed specifically with the salesperson
in mind. This menu is a consolidation of pertinent sales information allowing
the salesperson to use one menu without fumbling through all the others.
- Some of the options on this menu are:
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Document
Imaging
- TransFormation is designed to integrate with a third party image product that
will allow users to:
- Store, retrieve and administer unlimited amounts of text and imaged documents.
- Fax documents into and out of the system.
- Scan documents in both individual and batch mode.
- Print documents on demand.
- Use optical character recognition (OCR.)
- We also offer the ability to set up automatic document faxing to specific
customers.
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