Freight Management Technology - Air & Ocean

Create & Manage

Create & Manage

  • Create bookings

    Create & book your Export, Import or Cross-Trade shipments directly through Mainchain thus eliminating the need to phone or email your shipment information. Set up & manage your templates to reduce data entry for your repeat shipments. You can also create your own House bill number so you can track the shipments consistently across your system and ours.

  • Generate shipping documents

    Create your Shippers Letter of Instruction (SLI) for all your export jobs automatically through Mainchain.

  • Set up notifications

    Keep all relevant parties connected by setting up milestone notifications (either specific or all) for each shipment as needed which can received via SMS or email and tracked through the Mainfreight website.

Sea Freight - Freight Forwarder International - Cargo Shipping - Our team provide a total service covering the sea freight movement of your product, customs clearance and tariff classification, coordinating pick-up and delivery
  • Manage your addresses & contacts

    Bulk upload your consignee and consignor addresses and set them up with delivery instructions thus reducing data entry every time you consign freight to them. Amend any information yourself to ensure all receivers are up to date.

  • Manage your documents

    Upload all relevant documents for your shipments at the point of booking. You can continue to upload documents for your shipment anytime through Mainchain and retrieve/download them for up to 7 years.

Visibility

Access tracking data 

  • Get the most up to date information for each shipment at your fingertips or track through milestones to receive estimated and actual date information.

  • Comprehensive order-to-door tracking of shipments include: 

  • Use your own order / reference number as your tracking number.

  • Add items to your watchlist to ensure you don’t miss any important updates along the way

  • View Proof of Delivery

  • Store & retrieve all your documents including invoices for any given shipment for up to 7 years

  • Search one year of data

  • Export data to CSV Or Excel 


 

Analyse & Report 

Maintel is Mainfreight’s new analytics feature now available through Mainchain. In today’s environment, Supply Chain analytics is critical and enables you to gather, assess and act upon the data generated by your supply chain so you can manage your freight better. 

How will Maintel assist your business?

  • Operational performance - See trends on your booking / ordering process and freight profile to identify cost reduction opportunities across your supply chain. Your business can also see a reduction of time & costs associated with putting together raw data, invoices or investing in off the shelf products to provide supply chain insights

  • Sales growth – Save time by using data to identify the cost to serve your customers and make proactive decisions around growth and profit strategies that will give your business a competitive advantage 

  • Forecasting – Trend analysis that ensures you are better informed to forecast future business needs 

  • Sustainability - Our Maintel Emissions dashboard empowers customers to track and reduce supply chain emissions and easily meet reporting obligations.

On-Demand Reporting

On-Demand Reporting

Within Mainchain you can analyse your supply chain by customising reports with filters. You can create reports on demand or scheduled as required, including:

  • Client Job Invoiced Charge Summary

  • Client Summary Job Analysis 

  • Order Status Report 

  • Transit

  • Shipment Profile

  • Shipment Declaration 

Automate

Automate

Through EDI & API integration you can directly link your systems to ours for total visibility and control within your own business environment. 

EDI & API Integration will:

  • Save you time

  • Improve accuracy by removing data entry

  • Eliminate time spent training your team on a new system

The EDI & API capabilities for our Air & Ocean service includes but is not limited to;

  • Purchase Orders 

  • Milestone Status

  • Invoice

  • Documents

  • Proof of Delivery

  • Reports

  • Notification 

Air & Ocean Technology

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