Each bill of freight is printed in multiple copies, e.g. for: the sender, the sender’s weighmaster, the carrier, the recipient and the recipient’s weighmaster.
During freight preparation for transport the weighmaster fills in the bill of freight manually, especially the obligatory points: bill number, date, sender, recipient, place of issuing, place of reception, freight, registration plate number, driver’s name, driver’s id number, telephone number, amount, weight.
After reaching the recipient’s premises the freight is weighed again, the procedure of filling the bill repeats.
Filling the documents in manually may result in errors and later discrepancies in weighs and contractor details.
The weighmaster writes the weigh of received freight into the bill. The copy of the document together with acknowledgement is then forwarded to the recipient.
In case of weight discrepancy a separate paper document is drawn in case filling a complaint is necessary.
The carrier transports and hands in to the sender the acknowledged original bill of freight. The paper document might be destroyed or lost during transport.
The carrier must stop multiple times to unload freight on different recipients’ premises. In each location the procedure of weighing and acknowledgement with the bill of freight repeats.
The sender often receives the acknowledgement of freight reception with a considerable delay.
Average time of document circulation between the sender and the recipient from issuing the freight to receiving the acknowledgement: about a week.
Companies store paper bills of freight together with their copies and they usually take up a lot of space.
Each company runs separate registers of bill of freight.
Employees responsible for document archiving in companies lack tools to catalogue and search the bills of freight efficiently.
Implementation
Our experts will help you:
Create an electronic bill of freight.
Implement one, comprehensive numbering of bills.
Create an electronic system of bill of freight acknowledgement on different management levels.
Set an alert signalling differences in weighs or wrong weigh data (according to client’s fault tolerance rate).
Assign the users logins and passwords, through which they gain access to bill of freight register according to their post in the company.
Assign statuses of bills according to the procedure stage they are on.
Assign orders remotely by the supervisors through posting comments to the bill document.
Create the module of registers reporting data about bills of freight.
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Benefits
The electronic bill of freight proves useful when the reception of the freight by the recipient must be acknowledged.
The sender is able to check reception data online with no need to wait for the arrival of the carrier who returns the acknowledged bill.
The electronic bill of freight cannot be lost or destroyed.
No paper account of bills of freight needs to be kept both on sender’s and recipient’s site.
Contractor data is able to be automatically loaded from database lists.
The weight submitted by the weighmaster may be automatically checked (according to client’s fault acceptance rate).
Quick access to bills of freight register for authorized employees.
The weigh may be agreed upon on both sender’s and recipient’s site immediately after reception of goods.
Supply completion status is quickly accessible by authorised users.
Lower costs due to less paper documentation.
Convenient search through the bills of freight catalogues and easy remote verification of them.
Generating wide range of comparisons and reports became possible.
Simple export of comparisons to Excel spread sheet.
SAAS model provided – the data are stored on service provider’s server.
Waiting time for bill of freight issuing reduced by up to 15 minutes.