About Freight Forwarders
Freight Forwarder is a party in logistics activity whose main role is connecting "Carriers" with "Customers".
Why Freight Forwarders are important?
- Small customers with small quantity of product can't easily buy booking directly from carriers. They need Forwarders to help them deal with this case.
- Using services from forwarders help customers to reduce logistics fee because forwarders help them find best route with best price. Furthermore, forwarders will collect goods from many customers into a shipment to help them reduce the transportation fee.
What Forwarders provide?
Besides finding best transportation solutions for customers, Freight Forwarders also provide some of these services:
- Custom Clearance.
- Documentation such as Bill of Lading, C/O, C/Q, import-export license.
- Storage services...
An Extensive Solution Tailored for Freight and Logistics Enterprises
- Work & Project Management
- Accounting & Finance
- Instant Reports
- CRM Management
- Sales Managements
- Booking Management
- Shipment Managment
Accounting & Finance
The Accounting & Financial features of the SotaFMS module streamline financial operations for freight forwarding businesses. By inheriting data from various system modules and offering options for automatic or manual accounting, it ensures seamless integration and data accuracy. Automated reconciliation and electronic invoicing capabilities further enhance efficiency, while comprehensive accounting functions cover all aspects from cash and bank accounting to VAT and payroll management. With the ability to generate standardized financial reports and statements, SotaFMS facilitates compliance and informed decision-making, providing a robust solution for financial management in freight forwarding.
Vendor/Carrier pricing list
The vendor/carrier pricing list feature offers freight forwarding companies centralized management of pricing data from various suppliers and carriers, facilitating real-time updates and accurate cost calculations. This feature allows for efficient supplier relationship management, customization of rate tables, and easy price comparison, ultimately enhancing operational efficiency and providing a competitive edge in the market. By streamlining pricing processes, reducing manual effort, and enabling strategic procurement decisions, this module contributes to improved financial performance and customer satisfaction for freight forwarding businesses.
"With pricing list in FMS, we can easily update prices anytime!"
Booking management
In FMS, Booking can be created directly or converted from an quotation.
A booking contain main information:
- Customers' information
- Internal information
- Transport details
You can also send Booking number to customers via system.
Tips
Customers can track the situation of order with booking number on your website!
Shipment management
Whenever booking is confirmed by customers, you can convert it to a shipment by just a click.
Beside information inherited from quotation/booking, you can add other necessary things:
- Packages information
- Other routes information
- Other services you provide to customers: custom clearance, handling fee, B/L fee,...
- Create debit note for customers
- Create vendor bills in the system
- Update shipment's status
- Preview shipment's profit
With different types of view (Kanban/List/Calendar), you can access to a specific shipment to view details inside.
Tracking your shipment online
You can help your customers know situation of shipment by providing them a Booking/Shipment number.
Benefits of using SotaFMS module
Automation
Improve your system's automation up to 65% with FMS
Boost your sales
improve your sales to 200%, keep up with your customers relation
Operation
Improve your team's efficiency to a new level
Reduce wasting
Cut off up to 60% wasting time of operation
Fully integrated with other SotaERP Apps
CRM
Keep track of all interactions with your opportunities and customers and improve your sales cycle.
Accounting
Create invoices automatically based on sales orders, delivery orders, or contracts. View all of your customer account information from one location.
Invoicing
Turn quotes into professional-looking invoices in one click.
Case study
About SCS
SCS is a freight forwarding company with a global network of agents, providing a comprehensive suite of professional, cost-effective, and efficient logistics solutions.
Issue
- As a logistics company, they handle a large volume of daily operational tasks, including a significant amount of paperwork that requires a significant amount of human resources to process. Therefore, digital transformation is essential to minimize human resources, save time, and reduce operating costs.
- Their current freight management software system is outdated and unable to handle the large volume of data generated by our expanding business. It is also difficult to customize and has an outdated interface.
- Additionally, they lack an end-to-end automation system to automate their business operations.
Solutions
- By implementing the SotaERP system, including the Freight, HRM, and Accounting modules, we have digitized the entire operational process of their business.
- Sota ERP's system is easy to use with a beautiful interface, high processing speed, and a cloud infrastructure that is easy to maintain and operate.
Experienced in IT industry
Our personnel with over 20 years of experience in IT industry have been providing a wide range of comprehensive IT services, from consulting to implementing meeting the highest level of requirements
Innovative Technology Stack
Eliminate manual paperwork processes. Save operating time. Automatic/Semi-automatic working steps are repetitive in nature according to a rule. Reduce personnel costs. Standards and unification of operating procedures of departments.
Tailored Solutions
At Sota Solutions, we're experts at creating custom solutions just for you. We get your logistics struggles and make sure our solutions fit perfectly, making your work smoother and better.
Transform your business with Sota Solutions
Blogs & News
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