Digital Forwarding Platform

A Comprehensive Platform To Manage Every Aspect Of A Freight Forwarding Operation.

This platform provides even the smallest freight forwarder tools to offer unique and high-quality services.

eOneports helps shipments move from A to B as quickly and efficiently as possible. It covers every link in the chain – from capacity planning and rate management through to vessel booking and last-mile trucking.

• Among many other functions, this eOneports platform can organize and co-ordinate:
• Shipments
• Consolidations
• Bookings
• Imports
• Exports
• Customs documentation
• Transshipments
• On-forwarding

Integration

The single platform enables the management of brokerage, customs, invoicing, and many other forwarding operations in place. It eliminates the need for separate, time-consuming jobs while enabling organization-wide transparency.

Automation

EOneports helps eliminate manual, paper-intensive processes. Data can be made available across a company’s global operations after typing it in once. Customer data can be securely shared throughout your operations, minimizing delays and errors.

EOneports gives you and your customers the ability to track cargo movements in real time through its Workflow feature. It can be customized to send alerts when cargo reaches (or doesn’t reach) performance milestones. You and your customers can receive an update the instant a container enters a port, unloaded from a ship, delivered, or when it reaches any other point in the Single supply-chain system. EOneports can connect forwarders with every link in the supply chain.

The system receives schedule updates and container tracking information from many sources and can relay them all to you instantly. It can send automated alerts to your customers and can also issue reports to help them meet their key performance indicators.

• The platform facilitates easy communication with many entities, including:
• Customs authorities
• Port authorities
• Airlines
• Shipping lines
• Transport providers
• Depots
• Industry facilitators
• Agents
• Customers
• Clients

Customizable

Workflows are configurable so important events trigger alerts. The system can, for example, send a notification if a container has been in a depot for too long, helping avoid detention and demurrage fees.

The look and feel of data-entry forms, documents, and reports can be configured to match company requirements. EOneports report templates are like one flexible. They can be aligned to any corporate

EOneports booking capabilities centralize communications and documentation in a single system. This makes for faster and more accurate LCL (less than container load), FCL (full container load), and air-freight bookings.

EOneports booking module includes a full scheduling system with sailing, flight, trucking, and rail schedules. A schedule can be built with multiple origins and destinations. EOneports can track the shipment from start to finish.

The platform facilitates easy consolidation. Shipments can be dragged and dropped from a load list to or several containers, splitting them if required.

EOneports freight-forwarding functions can be integrated with any of its other modules, including the multi-currency accounting and invoicing solutions. Combined, these functions make an eOneports software tool for any freight forwarder.

Direct electronic connections to ports

Direct electronic connections to port community systems improve supply-chain visibility and streamline shipment management processes. EOneports has connections to ports in Australia, China, Germany, the Netherlands, and South Africa.

These connections remove the need for manual processes, which can cause delays and rejection of cargo. They also deliver speed, quality, and accuracy.

Get it right first time

Intelligent data validation ensures the correct messages are submitted. It also ensures messages are sent according to the recipient’s standards.

Minimize delays

Electronic documentation can reduce manual processes, lessening wait times at the port. If messages are not sent by a certain date or time, exception management can be used to automate notifications for further action.

Control costs

By eliminating manual data entry, the risk of penalties is reduced. Also, streamlining cargo processing saves time and my.

Improve productivity

Quickly and easily send data and ensure there is an audit trail that can be tracked.

Customs

Meeting complex regional compliance requirements is a great challenge for global logistics businesses. EOneports can help supply-chain businesses overcome this challenge. It can facilitate integrations with many customs jurisdictions around the world.

Compliance

EOneports monitors reference sources from many customs jurisdictions. It is always up to date with ever-changing duties and reporting requirements. The single platform system maintains a global client product database. You can link your database with relevant jurisdictions to ensure global compliance.

EOneports connects your business directly with various customs authorities. The module is an easy-to-use tool that helps ensure compliance with myriad customs requirements.

Data collection and automation

EOneports can handle everything from the simplest -line entry to the most complex scenarios. It compiles customs-related data across all your operations, minimizing unnecessary re-keying. The system provides a configurable automation engine that makes many common functions automatic.

Operational integration

EOneports is an environment of integrated enterprise resource planning applications. It integrates forwarding, costing, and invoicing requirements into multi-layered form. The environment allows you to create and send many types of declarations. It automatically links these declarations to shipment details within the system.

Tariff classification

EOneports is fully integrated with EBorders, a comprehensive tariff classification tool. EBorders includes tariff chapter and section notes, and binding ruling information. It also includes a library of countervailing and anti-dumping cases. Its libraries also include related government requirements and duty rate information.

EBorders has a keyword search function which enables easy access to the information you need. EOneports is an import-export solution that ensures compliance.

Geo Compliance

EOneports helps global businesses operate within the laws of countries around the world.

Communications

EOneports can produce documents in more than 30 major languages. Users can manage and adapt these documents to include localized terms. Also EOneports interface is available in several languages.

Tax

EOneports geo-compliance capabilities allow businesses to comply with local tax laws.

EOneports adheres to tax rates and default rules, invoice layout and numbering rules and ensures your data is safe and available whenever you need it. The system manages essential requirements such as VAT compliance, withholding tax, and other general procedures.

EOneports includes a fully automated tax-determination engine that uses data already in the system. This engine determines the type of tax that should apply, the rate of tax, sub-class of tax and any required invoice explanations for the relevant jurisdiction.

Accounting

EOneports accounting compliance capabilities are built as global architectures, so they are adapted to suit local needs.

The system automatically classifies invoices according to local rules for many countries and provides separate number sequences for these special invoice sub-classifications.

In addition, the system has inbuilt fiscal reporting for several countries, based on the data already entered via the operations job, the tax determination, and automatic document classification systems.

EOneports Netting Center combines multiple transactions into net payment stream and automates the time-intensive, manual process of matching balances and reconciling invoices.

Security

Supply-chain security is a serious matter. The penalties for moving cargo on behalf of black-listed companies can devastate your business.

Security is a top priority for EOneports . The system allows users to screen clients and vessels against more than 150 watch lists, from the EU’s list of banned ships to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. If it detects a match, the system will issue an alert.

Integration

Instant and reliable communications are essential when operating in a global industry. EOneports comprises a comprehensive suite of integrated data messaging applications. Whether your business is large or small, complex or compact, it can link your business with the global supply chain.

Enterprise capabilities

Enables all your business segments to work from the same page. Its enterprise-to-enterprise capabilities integrate your business’s electronic data with customers and global partners. It enables more productive communication with another, no matter where in the world you’re operating.

eHub

Advanced electronic integration is vital for a strong supply chain. But, many smaller businesses lack the expertise to make the most of the technology. For these customers, eOneports offer an eHub service. It is a simple and flexible solution that connects EOneports users with trading partners not using the EOneports system.

Our expert eHub team handles all the setup, mapping, and system maintenance. This means no additional hardware or software investments for you. And, because your eHub data is delivered through our Cloud network, your connections are safe, stable, and reliable.

eAdaptor

EOneports provides a flexible eAdaptor service for self-managed system integration. This service was developed specifically for businesses with dedicated, in-house software development teams.

eAdaptor integrates EOneports with your other systems (or those of trading partners). It is a comprehensive software development kit with sample programs written in C# .Net. eAdaptor’s EOneportsb Service technology means your team can use your preferred protocol to communicate with full control over messaging middleware.

Digital document management

EOneports single-window platform offers a cloud-based digital document management system.

Documents stored in the system can be connected to associated shipments, orders, products, and operations. You can scan documents into the system from a paper hard copy, import documents from a hard drive, or drag and drop them from an email. . Once the shipment is confirmed, customs formalities and physical movement of these goods require a manual process that is still carried out through emails and excel sheets, totaling to over 70 documents for every shipment. That’s where eOneports come into the picture.”

Objective is to automate this entire process by enabling the middleman freight-forwarder, but digitising the process — from procurement to delivery. “EOneports want to in the freight-forwarding industry, where eOneports hope to convert an asset-light freight-forwarder into a digital store of their own,” “This means eOneports get to use existing resources and infrastructure, and just give them a digital twist, and in turn reduce logistics costs.”

To set things in context, the Indian cargo market accounts for 17 million TEUs, annually. EOneports want a small piece of the pie. “Whatever eOneports have automated so far. EOneports want to increase that to one percent of the whole market,” says

The company operates on two models, depending on the size of the freight forwarder it is servicing. “EOneports don’t go with the one-size-fits-all approach,” “For bigger freight forwarders, eOneports work on a subscription model, where eOneports charge them per-user, while eOneports work on a pay-per-use model while doing business with our smaller freight-forwarders.”