With the unending stream of information and new technologies that are being introduced in the freight forwarding industry, handling and organizing shipments and tasks can become tedious and bring difficulty in handling them. As businesses start to grow in both manpower and locations, simply relying on spreadsheets and documents will start to feel like more of a burden than relief.
This can become a huge issue when the business starts to not perform as well as it should. Ideally, a well-maintained system is highly important to increase the business’ potential for positive growth and increasing revenues.
A great solution to end this struggle is a powerful freight forwarding tool called CargoWise that allows you to not only automate processes but also optimize your forwarding operations- all under one convenient and easy to use global database.
In the fast-paced industry of cargo and freight services, productivity and efficiency are key players in building trust among clients. Here are some of the benefits that your business can experience when using CargoWise.
- Powerful Productivity - CargoWise not only saves you time but money as well. Reducing the need to employ additional workers to encode, organize, and keep track of your data saves on costs, giving you more resources to invest in other sectors of your business- like expanding into more foreign trade.
- Streamlined Operations - With CargoWise’s powerful single view, the time that you once spent on organizing and briefing shipments from the origin, costing, and customs brokerage, can be cut to a significantly shorter time. CargoWise displays all this information on one easy-to-digest page, making it less likely for errors to happen.
- Global Compliance - Be globally ready and equipped to liaise and take on various foreign trade policies with ease as CargoWise is globally compliant to most of the world’s markets. Expand your business and reach more potential customers as CargoWise helps your business to reach.
- Importance of Data Visibility & Reports - With the need to be more transparent in transactions, CargoWise emphasizes the importance of data visibility and being able to create reports so that your team can see any points of troubleshooting or track progress and performance.
CargoWise can help you get to the top of your business’ productivity. It helps you monitor more effectively and resolve issues with ease as well as streamlining your processes in one single platform. Here are some of the key features of CargoWise:
- Deep functionality to help support the supply chain - Having access to your data when you need it is an important feature that CargoWise offers, as real-time updates on your shipments are crucial. Reports for any of your operations that are monitored by the service are available at request, anywhere at any time.
- For Freight Forwarders
- Never be clueless about where your current outgoing and incoming shipments are with web tracking, a function that extends beyond just monitoring and notifying from your end.
- CargoWise also automatically sends notifications to your customers, making everything crystal clear from both ends.
- CargoWise automates workflows and repeated processes with ease and allows you to be more productive and speed up processes to serve customers better.
- For Shipping
- The auto-costing feature allows users to save time by no longer having to add any special charges to your shipments manually.
- Reduce delays with CargoWise as the system can notify you and your key stakeholders, like customs and port authorities, airlines and shipping lines, and transport providers, on the situation of your shipments.
- If a shipment stays too long in a certain step of the process, CargoWise will send out an automated message regarding the shipment, reducing the added cost of late shipments.
- The system has a built-in search engine, helping you find the information you need effortlessly.
CargoWise makes it easy to do tasks and better performance of your business. You will only have to input your data once, and this information becomes available to all parties involved. This means that everyone involved in the process including operations to accounting can check and verify your information. With this, your process can reduce the risk of errors and improve the quality of your data, avoiding any shipping delays by troubleshooting errors at an early stage.
Setting the service up is as easy as operating it. With assistance from OBP's CargoWise Consultancy, you can monitor, track, and organize your data into this system. Our team of data experts will help you train, giving you a wealth of information that can help you fully utilize the power of CargoWise.
CargoWise is a cloud-based platform and can be customized according to the business and you can easily integrate and maximize the platform in the best possible way through the support of Offshore Business Processing as we are a WiseTech Global partner. With that, we are highly equipped with the knowledge and skills to integrate effective systems that can help your business unlock the full potential of CargoWise.
With the new normal making the digitalization of business processes a must for any firm, CargoWise is a wise investment towards migrating your business from traditional media tracking to a cloud-based platform that can perfectly cater to your business needs.
Reach out to us today and learn more about how we can help your business increase productivity and reduce costs up to 80% with globally recognized solutions like CargoWise.
