In the fast-paced world of logistics and supply chain management, freight forwarding is a critical component that ensures goods are transported efficiently around the globe. With the complexities involved in international shipping, utilizing the right freight forwarding software can significantly enhance operations and drive business growth. Here’s an overview of some key freight forwarding software solutions that can streamline processes, improve visibility, and enhance customer service in the shipping industry.
1. CargoWise
CargoWise is a robust freight forwarding solution designed for global logistics providers. This comprehensive software integrates various functionalities, including documentation, compliance, and tracking, into one platform. Its intuitive interface enables users to manage shipments easily from origin to destination, ensuring accurate and timely deliveries. CargoWise also offers advanced reporting tools that help logistics managers analyze performance metrics and optimize operations for better profitability.
2. Freightos
Book Track Deliver is a simple and robust freight forwarders management system build by active forwarding team for their own business and after seeing how successful it ran their small business, then decided to offer the system for free for other freight agents. Understanding that businesses needs to have an IT solution no matter how simple that can help professionalise their business, an also how costly these systems are to develop and maintain, Book Track deliver, otherwise known as BTD was made very simple and easy to use, we developed with an architecture that is easy to understand and straight to point on the basic and advanced business features a forwarder of any size would need for their business.
A business may ask why is it free after the cost and effort put into it? Firstly it is passion for the guys in the team, then we have the commercial version known as My Cargo Agent known as MCA and My Cargo Agent Pro (MCA Pro) advanced commercial versions offered for small fees to help us maintain BTD as free for freight forwarders and other logistics businesses that use BTD.
BTD has two types of billing systems that achieve the same thing, this depends on the type of automated calculation a freight agent would like to handle for a particular cargo for a particular destination . The courier and the customized invoice options are available in the system to select from.
Book Track Deliver is a free simple freight managment system developed by practicing forwarders for startups and established businesses in the industry. We know that finding the right software that will do what what a freight business would like is not easy , it is either too sophistcated or too simple and most of the time these businesses do not have the money or technical expertise to develop their own system.
BTD is in the middle of this and offering you a simple Freight Forwader's managemnt system. Every business woukd like to have a professional look and one of the most vital part of looking professional in the industry is the system that powers your system. A business would need a tailored and integrated system to support it's cusgtomers and provide clear view of what is happening in the business, and this cuts across the whole business profession.
If you are looking for robust but still a simple freight management system that will suit your business, that looks like it was customised to your freight managmement business, then you have found the right system for you. My Cargo Agent (MCA) is a simple freight managment system or CRM for startups to medium sized freight or courier business.
Just like it's free version which is Book Track Deliver (BTD), it was developed by an active freight forwarding team that required a simple but yet robust system that can cater for and push a freight business to a professional level. In both MCA and BTD, there are no unnecessary features that may not be used by freight agents, rather we have added exactly what a freight business would need.