Baseplan’s Transport Management Enhancements Reduce Manual Workloads

Baseplan Software has unveiled a suite of advanced transport management features in its latest software release, available as part of upcoming 2025 version. Utilizing Baseplan Enterprise and Baseplan Mobility Application, these changes aim to reduce manual workload, increase accuracy, and enhance operational efficiency in managing inter-company transport activities for customers.

These features introduce enhancements to transport docket management, vehicle dimension tracking, and inter-company automation, ensuring businesses can better manage transport jobs and operational workflows.

Key Highlights

1.     Additional Transport Charges

Baseplan’s new functionality is designed to simplify cost tracking and enhances the “additional charges” feature for the Transport module. This highly configurable feature simplifies cost tracking and additional charges such as fuel levies. Users can now manually record charges like waiting times, extra fuel usage, and permits directly on a transport docket. This streamlined process ensures accurate documentation and reduces disputed delivery charges. Also, users can now document abandoned or refused deliveries with selectable refusal reasons, providing clarity and reducing disputes.

2.     Enhancements to Vehicle and Trailer Dimensions Management

The new equipment specs screen enables administrators to configure height, width, length, and weight directly in the system. This allows users to track financial utilization, and flag vehicles that require pilot vehicles to ensure safe transportation of oversized and overmass loads. 

Along with vehicle filter options and dimension limit summaries, including visual indicators, to help users manage transportation limits effectively and reduce the risk of overloading. Meanwhile, transport dockets gain enhanced functionality with the ability to assign trailers to individual lines, further optimizing logistical management. These enhancements allow for better organization and management of transportation jobs, leading to improved operational efficiency.

3.     New Multi-Leg Trips

The new Multi-Leg Trips feature is designed to enhance the efficiency and flexibility of transport job dockets. A new menu item, "Multi-Leg Docket," has been added to the Transport menu allowing users to add multiple addresses within one transport parent docket. Businesses can now streamline routing with child dockets, multiple addresses, sequence management, and generate unified invoices, reducing administrative complexity and improving cash flow accuracy.

 4.     Introduction of Inter-Company Automation

New functionality for inter-company automation, enhances multi-company operations by automating the creation of transport dockets between affiliated companies. When a transport docket is generated for one company, corresponding dockets are instantly created in the sister company. Email notifications and automatic invoice generation ensure seamless and error-free inter-company operations, the company said, along with enhanced user flows, and configuration options providing customization based on company-specific needs. These changes aim to reduce manual workload, increase accuracy, and enhance operational efficiency in managing inter-company transport activities.

Driving business impact

Overall, incorporating mobile capabilities into transport operations can improve operational efficiency. Not only does it enable dispatchers, drivers and managers to coordinate more effectively, but it also enhances customer service through accurate ETAs, updates and record keeping. It also facilitates the support of compliance and safety through on-the-go documentation, tracking and reporting.

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