What is MachShip?

What is MachShip?

MachShip is an independent, cloud-based comprehensive freight management tool which will allow users to:

  • Effortlessly streamline the entire management of freight into a single platform
  • Save time by having all transport carriers and rates accessible in one place
  • Track Consignments providing greater control over freight and visibility
  • Integrate with existing Enterprise Resouce Planning (ERP) systems, Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) and E-commerce Platforms, as well as Accounting platforms
  • Reduce invoice discrepancies and save money with the powerful reconciliation engine
  • Easily upload your own negotiated carrier rates and immediately ship with certainty

The major features of MachShip are:

Rate Management and Quoting

  • Upload and manage carrier rates
  • View all available carrier rates, and always select the best option
  • Automation of carrier selection

Consigning and Manifesting

  • Book consignments for all available carriers
  • Create and save items and link them to a business ID/SKU
  • Manage surcharges and delivery options for specific carriers
  • Progressive consignments - begin a freight booking and add to it later
  • Create and print consignment details, manifests and labels for specific carriers
  • Automatic individual or bulk manifests. 

Tracking

  • Manage and track all existing consignments
  • Send email and SMS notifications to customers with tracking details
  • Track consignments at every point of the supply chain
  • Receive ETA based alerts for consignments not directly accessible from the carrier. 

Reconciliation and Invoicing

  • Automatic reconciliation to manage carrier invoices and balance consignments
  • Link carrier invoices to jobs
  • Receiver alerts for cost variations of consignments and set tolerances
  • Cost centre allocations and account relationship facilitation available

Reporting

  • Manage your freight tasks with live dashboards
  • Create financial and operational reports

API & Automation

  • Access MachShip functionality programmatically via REST API for custom integrations
  • Automated workflows and carrier integrations
  • Automation rules enable intelligent carrier selection, rate management, and consignment processing without manual intervention

Dangerous Goods Compliance Capabilities

  • Validate Dangerous Goods Information against the ADG code
  • Check compatibility over a consignment and a manifest
  • Creation of Compliant Dangerous Goods Transport Documentation

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