Online Transport management made easy

PLUG THAT REVENUE LEAKAGE
Transport operators in the current market are struggling and experiencing high-risk revenue leakage due to lost, damaged, or delayed receipt of consignment notes. Creating later or non payment for work carried out is an everyday occurrence, whether they are a small, medium or larger operator.

Those that have TMS  (Transport Management System) have better control, however for the smaller operator carrying 80% of the country’s freight still run their businesses manually, writing on bits of paper, their legs and arms trying to capture job bookings via cellphones, often working 24/7 trying to make a living. Often working late into the night, trying to stay on top of their paperwork with their wives spending hours each month trying to decipher dockets, which are illegible, into invoices.

ICOS Group of Companies a wholly owned New Zealand company wants to help businesses stay in business – by offering an affordable Transport management system – “made easy” (general freight, bulk, containers and more to come) which can be accessed anywhere, anytime24/7 via the internet, being web based and online. It’s known as iCOSLIVE which is sold as Software as a Service (SaaS) and it is hosted off site and managed for maximum reliability and disaster recovery.

Its point of difference is that it’s One database –just like internet banking there are No upfront software licence fee, you pay as you go, No support and maintenance fees, No per-user licenses you get Free automatic updates and most importantly No hardware onsite infrastructure- a real cost saving. Anyone with a user name and password can access it -

The welcomed arrival of iCOS LIVE (internet cargo operating system) offers transport operators the ability to gain business that they may not have been able to secure in the past – by offering customers EDI or online booking. Forwarder to forwarder, electronic manifests are eliminating communications errors, resource costs, repeated printing cost for docket book along with the ability to work in real time. Even your subcontractors can come online and action work on your behalf.

iCOS LIVE follows the freight via its track lines offering full ‘track and trace’, dispatching job data to mobile data devices in your own fleet of  vehicles or to contractors to action Acceptance, Pickup and Deliver on your behalf updating each of these status of the journey through to signature capture which can be displayed on the web.

Fully integrated to Xero online accounting or interfaced with your own.

The iCOS LIVE long white cloud is opening its portal to Australia.
Check it out on www.icoslive.com