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VinTelligent: Optimizing Automobile
Handling
VinTelligent is a Web-based application designed to optimize
automobile handling at all points along the supply chain,
from the moment a vehicle rolls out of the factory to the
time it is signed for at the auto dealership. Auto manufacturers,
railroads, ocean carriers, port processors, and haulaways
benefit from VinTelligent's ability to improve operations
by communicating the events necessary to track vehicles during
shipment. The system improves yard, vessel, train, and truck
utilization by automating previously manual operations.
Since VinTelligent runs on the Web, information can be accessed
from anywhere… at anytime… and in real time to create the
perfect collaborative working environment. The user interface
is Web-based, so up to the minute information is easily accessed
simultaneously by internal personnel, customers, and vendors
from any location. The VinTelligent system provides access
to information that can give you profound process knowledge,
leading to significant cost savings throughout the supply
chain.
Benefits
VinTelligent's built from a terminal operations
point-of-view. The system is the result of direct industry experience
and proven technology that achieves these real world objectives:
- Provides managers the operational information necessary
to reduce vehicle dwell time
- Improves terminal productivity
- Reduces handling and increases accountability for damage
- Offers real-time tracking, status reporting and updating
with EDI
- Achieves better customer service through secure Web-based
data access
- Reconciles inventory in hours instead of days
- Optimizes yard and equipment utilization
- Seamlessly integrates with any internal and external system
- Meets the needs of any size terminal with flexible and
scalable design using modular components
- Reduces processing and handling time while optimizing
resources
- Maximizes the use of Electronic Data Interchange
- Automates the creation and printing of documents
Tracking from manufacturer to delivery
VinTelligent excels in its ability to provide "tracking and
status" information along the vehicle supply chain, from manufacturer
to delivery. The vital tracking information suppliers and
terminal operators need extends to all modes of transportation
(rail, truck, and ocean) and all processes typically included
within a terminal. The continually updated information reduces
processing delays, extra handling, and subsequent damage,
and maximizes the utilization of yard, rail, and vessel management
personnel.
VinTelligent's Architecture
The system architecture provides for seamless
integration of data across different terminals and by different
transportation providers. Thus, the load data from one terminal
may be used to begin the unload process of another terminal.
It is easily scaled to accommodate medium to very large terminal
operations.
Modules
VinTelligent's architecture provides maximum flexibility and
scalability. The software modules include:
- Voyage Management - facilitates vessel planning, vessel
load, vessel discharge, and reconciliation.
- Rail Management - manages railcar spotting, grounding,
load planning, loading, reconciliation and release.
- Data Collection - automates information collection via
portable computers, bar code scanners and wireless communication.
- Services - manages booking, documentation, and freight
clearance.
- Processor - streamlines creating job orders, scheduling
and tracking.
- Financial Management - automates work orders and invoicing.
- Utilities - completes the package with features such as
security, system setup and preferences, standard codes and
tables, file import and export, and two features that bring
all of the VinTelligent modules together -- EDI and reports.
Maximizing the use of automated data collection and EDI
can save valuable time, increase accuracy, reduce handling
and optimize valuable resources.
Reporting
Supply chain managers consider VinTelligent's reporting function one of its most powerful features. Productivity, inventory statistics, quality control, carrier efficiency and operational effectiveness. These reports put valuable information at your fingertips to efficiently manage the day-to-day operations. The planning and forecasting capabilities allow fine-tuning of the operation by reducing inventory carrying costs and cycle times.
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