Benefits

Load unit flows are an important cost factor in the transportation business. PROLAG Transport therefore offers the new load unit module, which allows you to transparently track exchangeable load units.

 

Example

You transport goods on Euro pallets. At the unloading location, you do not receive the same number of empty pallets in return.

The load unit module helps you keep track of which business partners owe you empty pallets (or vice versa), allowing you to ensure a balance and avoid losing money on empty load carriers.

 

Benefits

You already record (exchangeable) load units in the order. This means that when the transportation is carried out, it is already known which load unit flows are associated with the respective shipper and recipient. You do not have to enter these load unit bookings manually again; instead, they are generated automatically when the loading is checked.

Example

You transport goods on 10 Euro pallets from loading location A to unloading location B (one of which may also be your own warehouse). At the end of the tour, your driver returns and you perform "Check loading." The 10 Euro pallets are automatically booked as an outgoing quantity on business partner A's load unit account and as an incoming quantity on B's account.

 

Benefits

The "Load unit accounts" view is the central overview for load unit management. Here, you can quickly see the total status of your load unit receivables and liabilities, as well as the status for individual business partners.

This view also provides a quick overview of which business partners have load unit bookings that have not yet been reconciled.

 

Example

You want to see the total balance of your load unit receivables and liabilities.

You want to determine which business partners you have higher receivables from.

You want to know which load unit accounts have not yet been reconciled.

 

Benefits

Not only you but also your business partners may maintain load unit accounts. To ensure that your records match, it is recommended to reconcile account balances at regular intervals.

To do this, you can export a business partner's load unit accounts as a CSV file and provide it to your business partner.

Any identified and accepted discrepancies can be corrected through manual bookings. You then record a balance as of the reconciliation date, which permanently records the reconciled status.

This allows you to ensure that your account records are correct.

 

Description

You regularly deliver goods on Euro pallets and in pallet cages to a business partner. Over several months, significant load unit receivables have accumulated in this business partner's load unit account. To ensure that the business partner acknowledges these receivables, you send them the overview as a file and request their feedback. If they confirm the balances, you record this status as a balance and thereby document the reconciliation.

 

 

Benefits

Load unit flows that are not covered by automatic booking can be entered manually. The entry screen is deliberately designed to allow you to create additional bookings quickly and easily.

 

Example

As part of reconciling an account with a business partner, discrepancies were identified and you agreed to reduce your pallet receivable by 1 pallet. Manually enter an outgoing quantity of 1 Euro pallet for the respective account.

 

Benefits

All load unit bookings are listed in Research. Here, you can search and filter across all accounts as usual and edit or delete bookings if necessary.

 

Description

You accidentally selected the wrong loading operation when performing "Check loading" and thereby created unnecessary load unit bookings. After correcting the loading status, select the unnecessary load unit bookings in Research and delete them.

 

Benefits

As a PROLAG World user, you also work with transport orders in the warehouse module. Shipments created in the WMS can be transferred fully integrated to the TMS module, where the transportation can then be planned and processed operationally.

 

Benefits

Your PROLAG Transport system contains certain master data, such as the base address or financial accounting data. Starting with Release 26.2, this data can be maintained directly in the user interface. Previously, this was only possible through your contact at CIM.

 

Example

You want to use the DATEV interface and export your generated billing records to a DATEV-compatible CSV file. For this purpose, some data from your DATEV system needs to be available. You enter this data directly into the designated fields for the client.

 

Benefits

You frequently handle similar orders for the same customer and therefore use the order copy function. Starting with this release, flat-rate prices included in the copied order are also copied.

 

Example

You transport goods for a customer every week from A to B using the same route. The price is always the same. Simply copy last week's order, including the price.

 

Benefits

You can select open billing records for any number of bill-to parties and periods and invoice them with a single click. PROLAG Transport sorts the billing records by recipient and period and creates the corresponding individual or consolidated invoices.

The remaining limitation is that the billing rates must be within the same category — meaning they must either all be invoices or all be credit notes.

 

Example

Every Monday, you invoice all open services from the previous week. The previous week spans two calendar months. Nevertheless, you can select all open billing records in the invoice category with a service date from the previous week and invoice them. The documents are automatically generated by period and separately for each bill-to party.

 

Benefits

In Research programs that display more than one date column, the date range selection includes the “Date category” field. You have always been able to select which date column the entered search period should refer to. With the new “All” category, you can now also search for records where any of the displayed dates falls within the selected period.

 

Example

You want to find all orders that were loaded or unloaded yesterday.