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| Automate your shipping instructions |
| Still faxing your shipping instructions? Submit them electronically to reduce processing time |
07 Dec 2007 – Did you know that CargoSmart's Shipping Instructions feature can help your export group reduce processing time? Since its launch, thousands of shippers have used the feature to submit shipping instructions electronically to multiple-carriers. The feature helps streamline your processes by improving accuracy, speeding up the draft bill of lading turnaround time with carriers, and supporting the U.S.'s and Canada's 24-hour rule requirements—all helping to keep cargo moving and delivered on time.
Instead of submitting shipping instructions by fax or e-mail to your carriers, you can submit them electronically, thus minimizing errors in the data submitted to your carriers' systems. Fewer errors means that you spend less time reviewing and correcting draft bills of lading. CargoSmart offers three easy ways to submit shipping instructions electronically to multiple carriers:
- Web browser: Use customized shipping instructions templates to speed up the online submission process to your carriers.
- Excel worksheets: Work from offline templates to prepare shipping instructions in advance and upload them when you are ready to submit them.
- EDI or XML: Reduce manual effort and processing time by submitting large volumes of shipping instructions by EDI or XML.
One leading Australian exporter, Murray Goulburn, extracts shipping instructions information from its SAP system and sends it electronically. The head of the export documentation department, Tony Wade confirmed, "Submitting shipping instructions by EDI reduces the amount of re-keying of information along the supply chain by 50%, improves the accuracy of our shipping documentation by about 25%, and helps to increase our export department's overall efficiency."
Bring greater efficiencies to your operations. Join thousands of other shippers who have automated the shipping instruction submission process.
Getting started
To start using CargoSmart to electronically submit shipping instructions to your multiple ocean carriers, please contact Customer Support at support@cargosmart.com.
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