General Product Information

FreightPath™ is a solution built by air freight people for air freight people. All modules have a consistent look and functionality. The workflow follows a logical progression of moving freight. Freight professionals will find FreightPath™ user-intuitive. In addition, we are responsive in terms of client requests for product enhancements and take a “user group” approach for the development of new features.

Our aim is to provide a comprehensive solution for our clients capable of managing virtually all aspects of the business process in an airline cargo enterprise from the FreightPath™ desktop. New features, modules and enhancements are added regularly to satisfy evolving business needs. Schedule optimization, multilevel tracking by all participants in a transaction with proactive notification triggers are some of the recent developments in FreightPath™.

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Product Support

Quality customer support is the single largest factor for airlines considering new cargo solutions. FreightPath™ does not intend to make the same mistakes many airline software vendors have made over the years, by ignoring their existing clients and moving on to the next lucrative contract. We understand how important our reputation is in this area, and we will continuously back up our high quality claims through customer referrals with first hand experience. FreightPath™ utilizes many of the support and development resources of the parent company Fountainhead which has fined tuned its development and support systems over the past ten years.

The support tools used by the FrieghtPath™ clients include an on-line help menu and a centralized support and development system (see above). This system allows online access for submitting support issues and provides our customers with 100% transparency to our responsiveness while enabling us to use an intelligent database for tracking and prioritizing development.

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Preference System

FreightPath™ is quickly and economically tailored to YOUR exact needs and changes as YOUR needs change. The key is flexibility and the list below illustrates a number of such parameters that can be set upon installation.

System Setup

• Offices and Division
  • Multiple offices and divisions
  • Separate remittance addresses with Bank Finance features
  • Assign AWB by division/office
• User ID controls access by groups:
  • Administration
  • Operations
  • Accounting
  • Sales
  • Management
• Calculator settings
  • Air volume factors
  • Set conversion factors and rounding
  • Set default units
• Track and trace codes

Databases

FreightPath™ was developed around relational databases that link to one another. Reporting across databases allows users to search by one database criteria and drill down to specific records in other databases.

• All Databases
  • Resort by header listing
  • Customizable reports
• Participant Database
  • Assign AWB range by customer and station
  • TSA Known Shipper - identifier and sort / reporting
  • Management warnings and internal notes
  • Internet tracking activation
  • Auto POD alerts
  • Identify competitors and link to customer intelligence database file
  • Assign sales reps with auto-commission calculation and management
• Accounts Receivable
  • Link multiple customers to a single AR record
  • Management oversight and credit limit features
• Accounts Payable
  • Link multiple vendors to a single AP record
  • Management oversight and credit limit features
• Airlines, Agents, Other Vendors
  • Rate database for automated rating and accruals
  • Contact and note database
  • Information such as ownership and auto AWB # generation
• Other Databases:
  • Airports
  • Countries
  • Postal codes
  • Packages
  • Containers
  • Customer rates
    • Zones
    • Airport-Airport
    • Airport to Zip Code
  • Other and Misc. Charges

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Air waybill processing

The shipment function is the basis for the entire FreightPath™ solution. It gathers information from previous quotes or shipments and lays the cornerstone for routings, accounting, tracking, compliance, and shipment documents.

• Pull from quote, AWB, or create new
• Special instruction pull down by shipper, consignee, and 3rd party
• Booking worksheet
• Dimensional Auto-Calculator
• Routing - See following Routing Feature, including S8, electronic flight schedule interface
• Accounting
• Accrual of costs
• Actual vendor charges
• Estimated charges complete lock/unlock
• Ready to invoice indicator
• Profit margin analysis
• Additional invoices/credit & debit memos
• Consolidated invoices
• Commission generation
• Revenue computation
• Profit Computation
• Post vendor invoices for "Actual" job costing
• Tracking
• Date/Time indicator by operations ID and full history
• Internal/external tracking notes fields
• Quick entry tracking message-single mouse click
• POD Information
• Documents and labels including bar codes

Flight processing

Flight schedules can be set up, adding aircraft registration and if required, crew names for the actual flight, capturing fuel uplift and invoice numbers by flight segment.

Shipments can be linked to flights by flight segment and flight manifests generated. Each flight has its own tracking, and documents generated, such as the flight recap. Much of the information is linked, such as flight tracking notes and allocated routing, while other information (additional tracking notes and charges), are unique to the shipment level.

• Booking
• Airline
• Tracking

Documents

The document feature of FreightPath™ combines pulling existing field elements for maximum efficiency and accuracy, while allowing a user to override document field elements to reflect the unique requirements of the shipment such as declared weight or expanded text area. Most commonly generated documents are displayed in true format and are interactive.

• Documents and barcode labels
• Dot-Matrix
• Laser
• Thermal
• Fax
• E-mail

Air Freight

Quotations

• Confirm Request
• Quotation
• Worksheet

  Airline Routings

• IATA AWB - Dot-Matrix
• IATA AWB - Laser
• Neutral AWB
• Manifest
• Bar Code Labels 

Reporting

The report function allows for customized reporting with ANY combination of variables and exporting to database software (i.e. Microsoft Excel). Custom report templates are created in minutes with a few mouse clicks. Customizable reporting templates are a subset of database lookups or as a dedicated reporting tool. The reporting function is a powerful management tool.

• Build custom report templates
• Identify field headers and report names
• Set field size and fonts
• Identify primary/secondary sort fields
• Apply calculations to field elements
• Restrict access by ID status
• Query by:
  • Date Ranges (File, Pick up, Delivery)
  • Filters and respective database names
  • Yes/No optional filter toggles
• Export as CSV to database programs (Excel)

Lookup Features

The lookup feature provides for a detailed query or a general search for a listing of possible records to the search criteria. If a user has a specific quote or shipment, it will go specifically to the record(s) in question. However, if the search criteria are more general, it will give possible options. There are detailed look up variables in the reporting functions.

• Lookup within databases
• Lookup within quotes, shipments
• Detailed lookup variables with the reporting function
• Lookup specifics:
  • Quote number
  • AWB number
• General look ups through
  • Date Ranges
  • Various filters-such as shipper, consignee, AR, station, operations or sales person and so forth
• Optional yes/no filter variables (example, all shipment with POD (YES) that have not (NO) been invoiced

Internet tracking

FreightPath™ supports interfaces with our Internet Tracking module that can be expanded to other advanced tools, including Shiptrax. Our goal is to improve your position with your clients while staying in the background. Internet Tracking allows the airline to control what (if any) information your specific shippers see. The tracking database is a parallel yet separate database in FreightPath™ and the upload is automated. The parallel database provides for maximum security because at no time does anyone accessing Internet tracking enter a FreightPath™ operational database.

• ID and password controlled
• Search by type
• AWB
• Date Range
• Shipper Reference
• Consignee Reference
• Drill down for shipment details
• Save on-line report queries as Microsoft Excel files.
• Book shipments online
• Capture option for new shipper/consignee records
• InstantTrack option for limited information, without user ID and password
• Automated e-mail alerts by customer profile

AMS

FreightPath™ is providing several options to connect to CBP AMS: via BT and through its business associate, SECTRA, where forwarders can enter house waybill data on the web site for subsequent transmission to US Customs. This is entirely within the current FreghtPath™ functionality without re-entering data.

• Completely integrated
• BT provides the transmission to U.S. Customs, and for the airline's forwarder customers, using the SECTRA connection, so that it is a 100% Internet connection
• Manifest, amend, arrive and paperless IT's

Integration

FreightPath™ is an open solution. The functionality growth of FreightPath™ is multiplied as it integrates with a number of external partners.

OAG schedules: Within an airline routing, a user can simply click on a single button to access global schedules for a given date, origin, destination, and specific carrier, if requested. The seamless interface to S8 Cargo, not only shows direct flights, but also builds dynamic routings. Click on a routing option and details are populated into the AWB.

Shiptrax: Shiptrax is a portal for collaborating with other supply chain participants. See www.shiptrax.com for details.

EDI Engine: The flexible EDI engine accommodates numerous interfaces to carriers, forwarders and portals using industry standard Cargo-IMP messaging and XML.

TSA Known Shipper

FreightPath™ offers full compliance to report and control TSA known shippers. The reporting variables identify shippers recognized as TSA known shippers. The shipper database has a TSA known shipper field identifier for routing control.

• Utilized TSA Known shipper as look-up and reporting filter
• Records how and when the Shipper is TSA Known; site visit, validation, other

EDI

Fountainhead has developed a powerful and flexible EDI engine for transmitting data between partners. It no longer requires custom programming to accommodate industry standard messages for transmitting or receiving data. EDI can be set up with a few mouse clicks. Messages handling includes IATA Cargo-IMP messages and a variety of formats is also supported.

• Customized by trading partner
• Industry standard can be easily amended
• Variety of Formats (XML, ANSX12, flat file, CSV)

Accounting Interface

FreightPath™ provides for full invoicing and financial reporting. Furthermore, it is integrated in the accounting system of your choice for multiple general ledger postings. We have developed accounting engines to interface with:

• MAS 200
• Microsoft Great Plains

Interfacing to other accounting systems not listed above is not a major development task for our team as we started with an open systems approach with the intention of modifying the accounting interface to work with various systems. Invoiced revenue data and reconciled vendor data is posted and exported from FreightPath™.

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Customer Rating

FreightPath™ was developed with flexible options to build and apply customer rates databases using templates. A single rate table can be applied to multiple customers.

• Zone template
• Airport to Airport template
• Airport to Zip Code template
• Apply by service level
• Separate other charges template with auto apply option
• Select default template within customer record
• Apply rates template/override within shipment

Airline Rating

FreghtPath™ has similar but separate rate database templates for carriers.

• Kilo or pound template
• Variable to indicate if actual or chargeable weight applies
• Zone rating
• Airport to Airport rates
• Door-to-Door rates
• Door-to-Airport and Airport-to-Door rates
• Interline rates
• Other and misc. charges
• Database fields for net/net, AWB rating, and AWB accounting field

Vendor Auditing and Reconciliation

The strong financial management aspect of FreghtPath™ provides for vendor charges reconciliation.

Operations can enter estimated charges for invoicing purposes and estimated profit, but the shipment file is not closed until actual charges are accounted for. CASS settlement is under development.

• Apply charges at the vendor level or shipment level
• Spread charges across shipments
• Apply adjustment codes
• Enter free text short pay notes
• Print vendor adjustment / short pay note

IMPORT

FreghtPath™ is completely flexible: it can be used for either Import or Export shipments. FreightPath™ supports the creation of the following documents:

• Arrival Notice
• US Customs Form 7512 (IT)
• Delivery Order
• Authorization for Release of Goods