Logmion Software Corp: Benefits of Dattaca, Freight Forwarding Management Software

Powerful and feature-rich freight forwarding software

Dattaca delivers loads of benefits . . . the key ones follow.

Eliminate risks

Don't stake your entire business on a shaky freight forwarding management system. Dattaca is a proven system. It works. Expect many years of worry free operation. We started with a solid database structure, built in the most complete set of freight forwarding functions and tested it thoroughly. Dattaca works — it's bug-free and it delivers accurate results.

Improve competitiveness

Get a complete set of functions to manage your job files, quote files, customers and vendors. Dattaca presents information in Books for fast data entry and retrieval. Impress your customers by providing them speedy and accurate shipping information.

More and more, large corporations are shutting down their internal logistics departments and outsourcing the work to capable freight forwarders. Get these outsourcing contracts with Dattaca's Purchase Order Tracking module.

Use Dattaca's Checklist function to set up tasks for each type of job and quote file. After they're set up, trace their progress from assignment, to completion, to ratification. With the Checklist function, you're 80% of the way to meeting the ISO quality requirement.

The freight forwarding business is all about building relationships. Dattaca's Customer Book function is a complete customer management system in itself. It surpasses dedicated contact management software because it's linked to the job and quote files to give you information on the business you've done with each customer.

Reduce costs

Reduce the cost of training. Dattaca's graphical user interface complies with the Windows standard. If you're familiar with Windows 95/98/NT, you'll learn to use Dattaca very quickly.

Dattaca's displays and dialog boxes are simple, uncluttered and logically laid out. All commands are represented by buttons on displays and dialog boxes. You don't have to remember obscure codes to operate it. Even occasional users can get all the benefits without a heavy investment in learning.

If you do forget, the comprehensive on-line Help function will help you learn it again.

For each freight and disbursement item, Dattaca lets you compare the costs from multiple vendors. Lower your input costs by choosing the lowest cost vendors.

Leave Dattaca the mundane work of calculating charges, converting between different currencies and different measurement units. Dattaca does these functions automatically. It reduces calculation mistakes, which reduces your cost.

When your customer awards you a job based on a quotation you've done, don't re-enter all the information in the job file again. Simply spawn a job file from the quote file. The spawned job file will inherit the relevant information from the quote file.

Increase efficiency

Dattaca centralizes the information for your business; information is at everyone's fingertips. Your staff will spend less time searching for lost paper files and more time on supporting your customers. And management can get immediate feedback to make business decisions.

Dattaca can support multiple companies and multiple offices. It enables one staff member to support multiple companies. And staff from different offices can share the same data.

Enter the rate and cargo characteristics for a leg and Dattaca automatically calculates the freight costs and charges, quickly and accurately. At the same time, the cargo information you enter is used to produce shipping forms, saving you from having to retype them. And if the same cargo moves from leg to leg, you enter the cargo once, then allocate it along the journey . . . no need to retype.

Need to create a shipping form that looks very similar to one in another leg or file? Use the Copy Form function to duplicate it then modify it. Need to enter a set of cargo that is very similar to one in another leg or file? Use the Copy Cargo function to duplicate it and modify it.

Used together, these functions will increase your staff's efficiency dramatically.

Eliminate waste

When your business grows, Dattaca can grow with it, and eliminate costly system transitions. The Interbase database engine is powerful and robust. It can easily handle a large database up to gigabytes in size.

You are a multi-national freight forwarder with thousands of employees who process millions of files per year? No problem. Dattaca uses an open database driver that allows it to work with all common database engines (including Oracle, Sysbase and SQL Server). Dattaca can support you by switching to a larger database engine.

Secure data

Sleep better knowing that your data is secure. Even if they have access to your computer system, people who have not been registered in Dattaca cannot access Dattaca data at all.

You assign registered users to different user authority levels, each of which is restricted to a set of data and functions. If you have multiple companies, you can also restrict each employee's access to only those companies that you have assigned to her.

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