Overview

6,000. That is the number of man-hours shipping lines in Singapore collectively spend each month consolidating and coordinating slot information exchanges with other alliance members. Imagine the amount of time wasted over manual data exchange. This is why we took the time to create ALLIES™ - a central information repository for shipping lines to share information on a real-time basis.

ALLIES can reduce the amount of time previously spent on manual information exchange by more than 50 per cent. It helps to streamline information exchange on slot forecasting, slot-utilisation reporting and vessel schedules among shipping partners. Information sharing between shipping alliance members has never been easier.

Make ALLIES your alliance partner for more effective collaboration.

Benefits

• An integrated alliance workflow by standardising and automating processes to simplify the alliance operations
• Improves operation efficiency with removal of duplicated data entry and manual effort required for information exchange
• More timely and accurate information at source to support decision making (for e.g. performance reporting and operation planning)

Key Features

• Captures booking forecasts
• Auto-consolidates booking forecasts
• Auto-reconciles booking forecasts for monitoring of slots availability

Slot Planning and Utilisation
Facilitates management of slot utilisation and allocations to maximise the slot usage

• Monitors the actual utilisations of slots against space allocated
• Auto-generates alerts for over and under booking situations
• Generates reports on actual slot utilised

EDI Capability to Interface with In-House System
Reduces duplication in data entry through seamless integration

• Hassle free integration to shipping lines' in-house systems and standard planning systems (such as POWERSTOW and CASP)

Forecast Slot Planning (used within a Shipping Line organisation)
A Slot management tool used by the shipping line for its in-house consolidation of data from agency offices for managing the loadings via Singapore

• Allows online planning/management of short and long term prospects on slot allocations
• Provides online slot forecasting for the agency offices
• Consolidates agency loading data for management reporting

Vessel Berthing Information Exchange
Automates exchange of vessel information among partners to ensure timely and accurate information sharing.

• Auto-consolidates vessel schedules from multiple partners and sources
• Auto-reconciles with Port and berthing information
• Tracks for actual event and milestone updates based on business rules setup and proper data ownerships
• Direct EDI linkage as a means to interface to shipping lines' in-house systems

For more information, please contact csc@portnet.com.