iCOS LIVE is a web-based solution hosted in the cloud that offers a work-flow solution live for
the freight and logistics industry. It links transport operators, their subcontractors and their clients – some being importers, exporters, international freight forwarders, distributors and third-party logistics companies together.
Its distinct features set it apart from competing systems with real-time track and trace – from online or electronic data interchange bookings through dispatch to proof of delivery with signature or camera capture.
- General freight, ambient, chilled and frozen
- Container management
- Bulk haulage
Empower your customers
- Transport owner’s clients can self -serve to manage their own account regarding track and trace, documentation, saving valuable customer service time. Online or electronic bookings speeds up processing while increasing accuracy.
- It’s a breeze – customers love using iCOS LIVE.
Your Customers can book online
- Instant access via username and password
- Job capture, tracking and auto-rating
- Ability to create pickup request manifests
- Print PDF consignment notes and labels
- Real-time track and trace online, including pin pointing via longitude and latitude, signature capture and signee names, date and time stamp on visual map display
Benefits:
- Lock your customers into you
- System auto-allocates docket number sequence, preventing revenue leakage
- Takes the phone load off your staff
- Eliminates docket book, printing costs
- Paperless end-to-end solution for 100% visibility for your customers
- Remove double handling to reduce time spent and accidental duplication
EDI Booking – Business to Business
- Intelligent and adaptable
- Can accept different file formats
- Quick to implement
- Multiple transmission methods accepted
- Multiple EDI processing facilities exist for backup and assurance
Benefits:
- Automated job booking
- Eliminates double keying and data entry error
- Saves time
- Jobs are automatically rated so your customers can see at a glance what it’s going to cost them
Dispatching
- Online bookings entered appear on both the operators dispatch screen and their customers showing real-time updates. The system calculates pieces, weight and cubic as the jobs pour in, and automatically allocates a docket number and rates them.
- High visibility of consignment status and location
- Save money – helps to identify areas where there is revenue leakage and saves on resources by working smarter and faster giving an immediate return on investment
- Advanced filtering for quick viewing
- Individual operators self customization display
- Point-to-point dispatching
- Full track-and-trace with detailed tracking entries created for every move via consignment and manifest
- Ability to create quotations and turn into jobs
- Mapping view of your vehicles, and the freight that’s on them
- A 2 B consignments can be dispatched to a smart phone or tablet running the iCOSGO app for paperless run sheets in order of pickup or delivery scheduled uplift and offload times.
- The system date and time stamps every movement and transaction updating statuses in real time along with signature capture and longitude, latitude on a proof of delivery (POD) of the consignment.
- Documents, consignment notes and photos of damaged freight can be stored or printed if required.
- Increased productivity– industry specific streamlined tools allows transport operators to cut out the day-to-day grind and get on with working on the business rather than in it
- Advanced dispatch display speeds up work flow
- High visibility of consignment status and location
Affordable, scalable pricing
- SAAS – Software as a Service
- Low monthly fee based on your number of trucks
- No license fees
- Unlimited customer accounts at no additional cost
- Available via the internet 24/7
- Free automatic upgrades
- Free support
- Hosted and managed for maximum reliability and disaster recovery
Are you Freight Brokers or a Distributor?”
You don’t have any of your own trucks?
– that’s OK –
Sign up to iCOS LIVE In your own right- bring your subcontractors on to iCOS LIVE to do your Freight distribution for you.