Overview

Rail and truck scheduling is the next step in C3 after rail and truck contracts are entered.  The rail and truck module facilitates matching of supply and demand contracts on a real time basis.  Actualizations feed directly to subsequent accounting modules after actualization is complete.

Features

• Ability to schedule purchases, exchanges, sales, and inventory from a single screen

• Availability of real time scheduled and delivered contract volumes while scheduling contracts

• Ability to group multi car or truck movements together on a single order for simpler tracking of shipments

• Automated tracking of intransit balances on rail movements

• Ability to add secondary costs on a movement by movement basis

• Automatic feed to invoicing and accrual modules after actualization

 Advantages

• Simplified management of scheduled and unscheduled volumes

• Centralized scheduling of all transportation modes when used in conjunction with other modules

• Flexible reporting of current physical positions

• One time entry of scheduled and actualized volumes automatically feeds accounting modules

• One time entry of secondary costs automatically feeds accounting modules

Benefits

• Timely knowledge of physical positions

• Single resource for scheduled and unscheduled positions

• Confidence in decision making for managing market changes

• Direct integration with contract and accounting modules