Ramco’s next-generation enterprise solutions for Freight Forwarders and NVOCCS

Helps you dynamically turn the tide in your favor

International maritime transport carries most of the volume of world trade and is vital to globalized trade. Like other economic sectors, it is facing a dual challenge - increased competitions, hence the need to offer innovative services cost effectively; and stringent regulations & norms, as the freight moves country to country, the need to comply with complex rules and regulations.

Freight Forwarders and Consolidators, NVOCCS, International Airlines and Shipping Lines, who form a major part of the maritime transport sector, need to address this challenge effectively and efficiently to turn the tide in their favour. World over, global class logistics companies leverage advanced technology and dynamic tools to streamline their entire business processes, manage and monitor high volumes of containers, deal with a wide network of partners across many trade lanes, improve their agility in reacting to dynamic markets, reduce operating costs and finally to comply with complex norms and regulations.

Ramco has been playing a major role in providing logistics software solutions over a decade addressing the business requirements of Freight forwarders, NVOCC, International airlines and Shipping lines amongst others.

Our exclusive solution, Ramco’s Integrated Freight Management System (IFMS) is a fully integrated software package that caters to the specific functionalities of air and sea based freight forwarders and NVOCCs. The solution has been developed with the help of industry experts from across the globe incorporating the best of business practices to bring about a paradigm shift in the way things work.

The system’s sophisticated cargo management component provides visibility on cargo positions, shipment lead times, delivery dates, freight costs, land volume forecasts, and much more. From sourcing trading partners, to monitoring shipments, to improving efficiency by eliminating redundant procedures, Ramco’s Integrated Freight Management System can address the entire range of business processes in the shipping business.

This is been made possible by Ramco VirtualWorks™, a tested and proven solution delivery platform that enables development of multi-tenant, robust and scalable web-enabled solutions. Further the model-based architecture of Ramco VirtualWorks™ ensures that solutions built and delivered are reliable, possess high flexibility to adapt and are delivered faster than conventional approaches.

Freight Forwarders

As a Freight Forwarder, you can benefit from modules addressing the requirements of Quotation & Documentation Management, Event management , Tariff management – Generic & Customer specific tariffs, Container Load Planning, Transport Pick up and cargo receiving, Buyer Consolidation, Electronic shipping instruction, Transshipment planning, Master Charges Apportionment, Airline wise AWB stock maintenance, Document Dispatch Details, Multi-company, multi-location and multi-currency system, Auto-trigger of emails and SMS based on specific activities and Integration with EDI, Customs, third party applications.

Discover our Integrated Freight Management System’s end- to-end solution foot-print addressing the needs of:

     

Sea-based Freight Forwarders

  

Air-based Freight Forwarders
 

NVOCCS

Ramco offers exclusive functionalities for the NVOCCS’s automating processes involved in Container Inventory Management, Tariff management, Detention & Demurrage Calculations, Container Procurement Management, Container Repair & Maintenance, Port & Plot Information, Quotation & Documentation Management, Event management ,Vessel Planning, Transshipment Planning, Multi-company, multi-location and multi-currency system, Auto-trigger of emails and SMS based on specific activities and Integration with EDI, Customs, third party applications.

Discover our Integrated Freight Management System's end-to-end solution foot-print addressing the needs of NVOCCs


Ramco’s Technology

Ramco’s solution adapts and scales with our customers business requirements. Based on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) standards, Ramco logistics solutions are technology agnostic and integration ready with existing or new applications. By re-using existing assets and with faster delivery time frames, Ramco’s solution help our customers realize more value for lower investments.

Besides, engineered and delivered on Ramco VirtualWorks, Ramco solutions provide companies with the flexibility they need to rapidly respond to evolving corporate imperatives, regulatory changes, and market conditions. Rather than re-deploy enterprise systems as the company reacts to these changes, the underlying platform can leverage business process models to quickly compose new business assets for true "change on demand."