Freight Management Technology - Transport
Create & Manage
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Get an Estimate
Our “Get an Estimate” function allows you to obtain a price estimate based on the destination, number of items, total cubic metres, and weight. This can then be downloaded, emailed, or printed for future reference.
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Create Bookings
Create and book your consignments directly through Mainchain. You can request additional services such as tail gates, hand unloads and HIAB’s at time of booking as well as creating Distribution Centre delivery timeslots. All relevant shipping documentation such as labels and manifests will be generated automatically when you book online.
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Set Up Notifications
Keep all relevant parties connected by setting up milestone notifications (either specific or all) for each shipment as needed which can received via SMS or email and tracked through Mainfreight.com
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Manage Your Receivers
Bulk upload your receivers and set them up with delivery instructions thus reducing data entry every time you consign freight to them. Amend any information yourself to ensure all receivers are up to date
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Manage Hire Equipment
Built-in automatic hire pallet transfer function allows efficient and accurate pallet management for Chep and Loscam accounts
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Manage Dangerous Goods
Upload all dangerous goods data into Freman to print out DG Certificates and Declaration forms at consignment creation. We store the DG Declaration forms so in the event of an emergency, all information of goods per consignment are identifiable
Visibility
Access Tracking Data
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All consignments moving through our network are visible at various milestones. Events are updated in real time, which means you have the most up-to-date information when you need it.
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Use your own order / reference number as your tracking number.
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Add items to your watchlist to ensure you don’t miss any important updates along the way
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View real-time proof of delivery
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Retrieve your invoices and statements for any given week for up to seven years
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Export data to CSV Or Excel
Analyse & Report
Maintel is Mainfreight’s analytics feature now available through Mainchain. In today’s environment, Supply Chain analytics is critical and enables you to gather, assess and act upon the data generated by your supply chain so you can manage your freight better.
How will Maintel assist your business?
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Operational performance - See trends on your booking / ordering process and freight profile to identify cost reduction opportunities across your supply chain.
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Sales growth – Save time by using data to identify the cost to serve your customers and make proactive decisions around growth and profit strategies that will give your business a competitive advantage.
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Forecasting – Trend analysis that ensures you are better informed to forecast future business needs.
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Sustainability - Our Maintel Emissions dashboard empowers customers to track and reduce supply chain emissions and easily meet reporting obligations.
On-Demand Reporting
Within Mainchain you can analyse your supply chain by customising reports with filters. You can create reports on demand or scheduled as required, including:
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Tonnage reports to analyse volumes to receivers and trade lanes
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Status report
Automate
Through EDI & API integration you can directly link your systems to ours for total visibility and control within your own business environment.
EDI & API Integration will:
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Save you time
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Improve accuracy by removing data entry
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Eliminate time spent training your team on a new system
The EDI & API capabilities for our Freight Management Transport service includes but is not limited to;
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Freight bookings and estimates
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Status information
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Invoices and proof of delivery
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Documents - packing slip / dangerous goods
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Reports
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Notifications
Domestic Transport Technology
Through Mainchain we are able to provide global visibility to our customers of their entire supply chain across all regions and divisions within our business. Within Mainchain, take advantage of our fast and easy-to-use freight management system which allows you in just a few clicks to produce and print all transport documents to accompany your consignments.
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