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Work task-driven with Events & Milestones in Boltrics’ FMS
Date
14 November, 2024
Reading time
2min. reading time
Stacked order trays on your desk full of paper files. All with various transportation orders and shipment details organized in trays, according to a system of categories that only you understand. You must recognize it; working as a freight forwarder in the old days. But times change. And today’s technology can help you streamline your work. You no longer have to sift through every physical order tray to find that one customer you still need to call. With Boltrics’ FMS solution, you turn it around. Work task-driven and apply Events & Milestones in your sea freight, air freight, or road transport processes.
Efficiently manage resources by focusing on tasks first
Using the standard available functionality of Events & Milestones, your software supports you with activities that need to be executed. As the name suggests, this functionality allows you to add data and times at specific moments on a shipment: the Events & Milestones. Think of the arrival of a shipment at the port, the loading or unloading of a trailer, or the ETA of a flight.
Through these Events & Milestones, you can flexibly automate actions in your FMS. For example, you can send an automatic message to your customer two days before arrival. Or to display a task on your role center before a certain deadline expires. This way, you bring structure to your work without having to check all orders in your system one by one for outstanding tasks.
Assigning tasks to users
In the Forwarding module of 3PL Dynamics, you record the entire trajectory of a shipment. For each trajectory, you can record the most important Events & Milestones via the ‘Events & Milestones’ button as mentioned above. Tasks can be linked to Events & Milestones based on configured service levels or manually and assigned to a user or user group.
Discover the possibilities of Boltrics’ FMS
Are you curious about what other functionalities the Forwarding module in 3PL Dynamics offers to streamline your processes? Watch our webinar with Product Lead Matthijs Smittenaar, in which he gives a 45-minute insight into the FMS. From air freight to sea freight and road transport.
Dutch only: the English version will be published soon.