Product highlights CarLo®

Administration
- Depiction of company and branch structures thanks to the configuration of clients and organizational units. Various languages available.
- Economic user licenses with defined performance ranges reduce the amount of investment required.
- Increased data security with user rights and access controls via a role concept and customized assignment of rights, detailed to field level.
- Predefined rule set for the display of national/international tax rules, currencies and exchange rates.

Master data
- Comprehensive master data management, including many tariffs
- Complete integration of communication solutions for direct dispatch of e-mails and circulars as well as the option of direct faxes and phone calls (via Outlook, Telefax server, and TAPI interface)
- Observance of Europe-wide road usage fees (tolls) during freight cost calculation, transport planning and invoicing. Additional definition of customized toll rates for specific route sections.
- Management of fuel prices and corresponding cost calculation rules (diesel floater).

Order management
- Intuitive, graphic user-interface for creating customized entry masks for quotes, orders and standard orders.
- Customized configuration of masks with definition of mandatory fields and tab sequences as well as alternative data import.
- Quote management with status, validities and automatic order generation.
- Multifunctional cost calculation
- Comprehensive and clearly structured document tracking.
- Creation, printing and transfer of dispatch documents in paper form or electronic formats.
- Automatic generation of orders from templates based on definable cycles including observance of weekends or country-specific holidays.
- Complete and freely configurable logic for freight cost calculation with margins, tables, comparison and standard tariffs as well as formula tariffs.
- Invoicing user-interface for the creation of invoices or credit notes in paper or electronic formats; direct dispatch of electronic formats.
- Archiving of printed invoices or credit notes in electronic form.
- Automatic creation of pre-assigned posting records based on freely definable complex rule sets.

Transport planning / Scheduling
- A user-interface which can be freely configured. Included are dockable windows, customized captions, conditional field formatting and creation of the user's own columns with calculation functions.
- Graphic display of transport orders, tours and vehicle locations in the digital map and planning per drag & drop directly from the map. (Can be combined with the fully automatic tour planning)
- Interactive resource usage plan: Clear and comprehensive display of tours and tours in a timeline (Gantt chart) and direct planning access for all resources.
- Planning of intermodal shipments (road, air, water) and various modes of transport (trailer, container, swap bodies, etc.
- Automatic restriction test with warning and abortion functions for over 50 factors such as weight, driving times, vehicle equipment, etc.
- Comprehensive driving time management in line with the current European regulations.
- Automatic location posting for vehicles, trailers, semi-trailers or containers/swap bodies
- Integrated telematics solution, CarLo-inTOUCH, for communicating with drivers and locating vehicles. In the standard version all the usual telematics providers can be connected so that duplicate data entry and program switches are unnecessary.
- Event management can be integrated for each telematics solution.

Loading unit management
- Automatic posting of loading unit credits and debts during order handling as well as manual posting and calculation.

Statistics
- Complex, predefined statistical evaluations in tabular, text and graphic form for analyzing the areas Orders, Transport planning, Customers, Vehicles and Transport activities.
- Key figures cockpit (business intelligence solution): Display of logistic key figures.

Groupage
- Handling of incoming and outgoing groupage with connection to the usual data record formats (e.g. transfer of bordereaus to subcontractors in the typical FORTRAS formats).
- Independent program for handling OG/IG (outgoing goods/incoming goods).

Automatic tour planning
- Automatic tour planning for efficient and effective planning of numerous transport orders. The algorithm provides tours based on customized optimization goals while taking customized restrictions into account.
- Use of advanced mathematical algorithms created in cooperation with the famous Fraunhofer workgroup for Applied Research on Technologies for the Logistics Service Industries (ATL) in Nuremberg.

CRM (Customer Relationship Management)
- CRM functions for maintaining customer and supplier information. Includes contact history, document management, key figures system and support of marketing activities.

Vacation planner
- Vacation planner for planning and managing staff leave while taking vacation bans and skeleton staffing into account.

Communication server
- Handles time and/or result controlled transactions
- Connection to external systems, e.g. enterprise resource planning systems.
- Certified SAP connection (R/3.x,4.5,4.6;SAP R/3 Enterprise 4.7; SAP ERP ECC 5.0, 6.0, SAP BUSINESS SUITE): Deliveries, tours, master data and status messages are transferred with the certified SAP interface (SD-TPS), further processed in CarLo® and, if required, re-transferred back to the ERP system.

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