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BASIC MODULE 1/2.
ABOUT GPM.
Freight forwarding companies and shippers are facing increasing challenges in
the administration of their rate agreements with customers and suppliers:
freight rates and surcharges are subject to daily fluctuations, which in turn
is making rate consultation, preparation
of quotations, preliminary costing and
accounting control increasingly timeconsuming.
With the Global Price Management
(GPM) software package, portrix offers
freight forwarding companies and shippers a solution that simplifies management of contractual terms and conditions
and enables transparent comparison of
freight rates, surcharges and additional fees throughout the entire shipping
chain - for sea, air and land freight, including pre- and on-carriage.
GPM features the optional Carrier &
Client Access, Collaborative Sourcing
and RFQ & Quotation Management expansion modules which offer solutions
for interacting with customers and suppliers over the internet, management of
tender procedures and drafting quotations and also offers optional expansion modules for Allocation Management
and Reporting.
The basic GPM module is the central
contract administration for your entire
organization: GPM provides management of FCL and LCL sea freight agreements, air freight agreements and FTL
and LTL agreements. The basic module
can be used to manage both purchase
and sale contracts with all freight rates
and surcharges. In this, GPM enables
administration of both customer-specific and customer group-specific agreements as well as automatic generation
of sales agreements from purchase agreements by application of customerspecific mark-ups.
By utilizing the Excel Import Wizard,
users can quickly and easily import
freight rate and surcharge data into
GPM from almost any Excel format.
During the import, GPM checks the imported data for consistency and offers
the user the option to correct manually.
Even extensive Excel tables from tradelanes with thousands of freight rates
can be imported in just a few minutes.
In cases of rate changes, GPM versions
all data automatically within the contract term and logs the change history.
This way you always know what time
period each rate pertains to and which
users made which changes to the rate
database at what times.
360°
RATE MANAGEMENT
BASIC MODULE 2/2.
GPM also includes extensive options
to administer loop and schedule information such as transit times and frequencies and offers flexible structures
for maintaining rates and surcharges
for hazardous cargo and heavy weight
equipment.
MASTER
DATA ADMINISTRATION.
GPM offers efficient administration of
freight rates and surcharges and is adjustable to meet your company`s business processes through an extensive
and flexible master data administration.
For mapping of carrier specific or customer- specific geomodels, GPM provides
the option to create geo-object trees, of
any number and any depth, parallel to
your own geomodel. Shipping rate and
surcharge data can be expanded with
an unlimited number of freely definable
fields for storage of organization-specific information.
For querying and comparison of terms
and conditions, GPM features the Rate
& Route Comparison (RRC) function, a
central mask for all queries: RRC finds
all possible results for the query parameters (departure and arrival location,
date of shipment, customer, shipment
details and many other parameters)
and prices them completely, including
all surcharges and additional fees. For
door shipments, GPM automatically associates suitable pre- and on-carriages
(both for carrier‘s and merchant‘s haulage alike) in a rule-based manner. The
results table prepares the results in a
transparent layout and also enables
comparison of purchase and sale terms
and conditions. The detailed mask prepares the complete calculation with all
of its elements.
GPM is protected by an extensive and
expandable system of permissions and
roles. Using system permissions, every
possible action in GPM can be assigned
a functional role, the use of which can be
geographically restricted.
GPM‘s multi-modal structure also allows comparison of cross-method shipping alternatives, such as LCL shipments with the total price for an FCL
container for the same route, or LCL
terms and conditions with corresponding air freight terms and conditions.
It is also possible to adjust and expand
GPM‘s calculation rules via a programming interface. For customers of Vatosline UG, the integrated Vatosline
interface offers the option to automatically import Vatosline subscription data
updates into GPM on a daily basis.
INTERFACES.
GPM can be integrated into modern IT
structures through of a generic webservice interface. This means shipping
rates can be queried from third-party
systems, e.g. from your shipping administration system or your accounting
system. GPM also comes with readymade interfaces for connection with popular CRM systems.
CARRIER & CLIENT ACCESS.
For preparation of freight rate data
and query functionality, GPM features
an optional module, which can be installed separately from the main system,
which securely provides customers and
suppliers with data over the internet.
ALLOCATION MANAGEMENT.
The Allocation Management module
maintains Seafreight FCL allocation agreements on tradelane-, contract-, and
optionally port-pair level and aggregates
forecasts as well as booking data against
those, providing an up-to-date view together with historic views on volumes,
to be used in operations and strategic
procurement departments.
The module features a break down of
volumes per vessel departure and provides an automatic optimizer and a
solution-oriented toolkit for allocation
planning, considering not only volumes
but also optimization parameters such
as secondary carrier options and profit
margins per shipment.
COLLABORATIVE
SOURCING.
The Collaborative Sourcing module is
used to control purchasing processes
directly from GPM. Suppliers enter price quotes for tenders into GPM directly
over the internet or via Excel. The Volume Matrix function can be used to compare and subsequently negotiate these
quotations in a transparent manner and
automatically copy agreed conditions
into the GPM database.
REPORTING.
The reporting module offers multi-dimensional reporting and analysis capabilities on all freight rate- and surcharge-related data objects of GPM and
aggregation through all tree-structured
master data objects.
It allows business knowledgeable users
to rapidly explore relevant data and issue unanticipated analysis requests.
RFQ & QUOTATION
MANAGEMENT.
The RFQ & Quotation Management module lets the user create, manage and
send quotes to customers directly on
the basis of GPM data. Quotations that
have been created are automatically copied to the rate database.
Furthermore, the reporting module can
be used by trained users to assemble
complex reports and automatically deliver KPI reports to users from all operational and management levels, either
into a dashboard view or via email.
360°
RATE MANAGEMENT
GET MORE
VALUE FROM
YOUR RATE DATA
Select your request parameters from
a fully customizable search pane;
store search parameters and default
values into filter templates and share
your templates with your colleagues.
Compare grand total rates including
all rate details down to each single
surcharge and complete routing information for multiple carriers and/or
clients; customize the layout of your
result screen by changing sortings,
the order of columns and the appearance of data. Store layouts into layout
templates and share your templates
with your colleagues.
View rate details and validities for each
component of a result for multiple container types; add or remove surcharges
from your calculation and check rate
changes for upcoming validities.
ABOUT PORTRIX.
The portrix group creates and develops
software for corporate customers since
2001. From small and medium size enterprises to corporations listed on the DAX,
our clients expect quality, expandability
and availability in all our products. We guarantee those expectations are met through
the consequential standardization of our
software production processes.
portrix has been developing software for
the freight forwarding industry for more
than 14 years and has gained extensive industry knowledge. portrix products are in
use at a number of industry key players;
ask us for a complete list of references.
PORTRIX LOGISTIC SOFTWARE GmbH
Friesenweg 2b | 22763 Hamburg/Germany
Phone +49.40.39 80 53-0
E-Mail info@portrix-ls.de | www.portrix-ls.de