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Centerline™ is Accord's modular Transportation Management System (TMS) for LTL and TL trucking companies. Centerline’s powerfull resource planning and operations management tools streamline critical business activities such as:
Centerline’s fully-integrated suite of tools gives you real-time visibility of your entire business. Centerline TMS enables you to take command of your entire organization from orders-in to profits-out. This is a true ‘end-to-end’ solution that automates the entire business process from back-office management and dispatch to driver activities in the field. Centerline TMS: enabling Smart Trucks for LTL and TL The traditional method of increasing your revenues is to add more resources to your operation: more trucks, drivers, office staff, etc. This strategy of increasing your trucking volume will cost you more investment dollars in equipment, labor, and facilities overheads. This becomes a revenue trade-off as much of your increased cash-flow goes to supporting the added infrastructure. This is not ideal. The more profitable way to higher revenues and lower operating costs is to maximize your existing infrastructure investment. Think smarter trucks, not more trucks as a means of increased revenue. Do the math, what does adding another truck, driver, data entry clerk cost per year? Buried deep within most trucking companies is a small fortune in inefficiencies, losses, and unnecessary claims. Unearthing this treasure requires tight monitoring and control of your entire operation and the ability to act proactively to manage your resources better. This is exactly the kind of control that Centerline TMS provides. Centerline TMS is built around a Cross Dock Control module that rigorously tracks every piece of freight in your system and feeds the activity directly into your billing system. The Centerline Cross Dock module: What does this mean for Centerline TMS users? Absolute freight control. Centerline TMS enforces checks and balances at the source, when the freight is still in your hands, not after the freight has already been delivered to the customer causing higher incidents of credits and rebills. The Centerline Rating module is extremely sophisticated and provides all the features to cover every unusual requirement of a transportation company from billing rates, through payables, costing, and driver settlement rates. What makes Centerline Rating a superior product? Our customers say it is the high level of flexibility for defining the structure of each rate table. Our methodology results in a very high level of auto-rating and control that dramatically reduces the number of transactions that require operator intervention. Our customers have enjoyed an immediate 90% auto-rating success. The Centerline Interlines module provides a very efficient and accurate methodology to process transactions handled by outside carriers whether they are simple Agents or Interline Partners. Manage these complex transaction with ease even when 2 or 3 carriers are involved moving the freight. The comprehensive Dispatch Module not only directs incoming and outgoing traffic efficiently, it also follows the status of all your rolling stock and on-road personnel. This means knowing the location of your assets (trucks and trailers) at all times, their load status, their availability and their usage- enabling tight control of your resources. The dispatch module is most effective when updated with real-time data from trucks on the road. Real-time data can be collected from driver’s onboard computing systems and third party satellite equipment and can also be used with mapping and routing software for added efficiencies. Enabling real-time visibility of your operations doesn’t end in the office. Centerline’s Mobile Dispatch Solution extends business critical information to drivers in the field, streamlining the dispatch process, eliminating manual paperwork and administrative tasks for the drivers. Hand-held computers empower drivers, much like PC’s empower your office workers, enabling them to open and close orders, scan barcodes, take pictures for OS&D claims, send messages and capture signatures, all from a single hand-held computer. Using satellite tracking technology (GPS) and wireless cellular networks, dispatchers can monitor the location of the fleet throughout the day in real-time and transmit important data such as new pick-ups or schedule changes, effortlessly. With the option to communicate using terrestrial cellular networks as well as satellite, LTL carriers can benefit from mobile dispatch, for only a fraction of the cost of traditional satellite-only systems. This is the best of both worlds: reducing cost and creating efficiencies that improve profitability. To calculate and manage the cost savings and increased profitability Centerline TMS provides a full-featured and Integrated Accounting suite that is custom-tailored to the special requirements and reporting needs of LTL and TL trucking. We can also create custom interfaces to the client's chosen accounting software package. Centerline TMS is compatible with most computer operating systems and interfaces with all popular relational database. Centerline TMS is flexible and structured to enable the use of any combination of Centerline modules.
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