Carter Holt Harvey, via its logistics solutions arm Lodestar, have selected logistics company NZL Group Limited as the preferred freight manager for domestic road freight activities.

CHH is one of New Zealand's largest road freight accounts, and the appointment has come following an extensive evaluation of the market.

Read full article here.

This morning we released a number of changes and enhancements to the invoicing screens. The release includes major changes to the way invoices are managed within eCargo.

The result is a much simpler and more effective process to create, view and manage your freight invoices. New features include:

• New Invoice Summary screen displaying Receivable and Payable invoices by status
• Improved Invoice Search, allowing you to search on customer or supplier and date range
• Bulk invoice functions, allowing you to approve, pay or export invoices in bulk rather than one at a time
• Quick links to PDF and CSV invoice formats
• Consignment search, giving you visibility over individual consignment details, freight costs and invoice history
• Simplified buyer created invoice process; purchasers of freight can now generate buyer created invoices against their suppliers with a click of a button
• Invoice integration with SAP
• Auto-emailing of invoices to customers and suppliers

The team have been working hard over the last few weeks to make sure the release went smoothly. If you have any queries or issues please don't hesitate to contact us.

The last two months can best be described in two words: 'controlled chaos'!

A number of large projects were delivered in April and May, including the Foodstuffs Primary Freight project, the 5Star FMCG managed freight service and a new updated version of eCargo Premium.

Our General Manager Tim Strawbridge and his wife also celebrated the birth of their second daughter.

Congrats Tim!

 

Foodstuffs now using eCargo

Foodstuffs New Zealand are now using eCargo as the Freight Management System for their primary freight initiative. The project went live late April and the Foodstuffs Inbound team have been rolling eCargo out to new suppliers each week.

The eCargo system enables Foodstuffs to reduce administration overhead and simplify financial processing, and with its suppliers now having access to the eCargo application for viewing consignment status information, freight invoices and various performance reports are all in real time.

You can find the press release here.

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New User Administration Features

Nominated administration users can now manage all their eCargo users using our new set of admin pages. Features available are:

• Add new users
• Disable existing users 
• Update user details
• Set user access levels
• Last login date

Logistics Providers can now also manage their Customer's users. This will save many phone calls and emails to the support desk.

We like speaking to our customers but we like it even better when they can do it themselves!

Please contact us to nominate your eCargo administration users.

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5Star chooses eCargo for Managed Freight Service

5Star FMCG Distribution have chosen eCargo to provide a transport management solution for their managed freight service.

After making the tough decision to withdraw from the domestic freight business and focus on Warehouse and Logistics activities, 5Star were faced with the problem of providing a freight solution to existing customers without a full blown transport management system.


5Star approached eCargo for a solution to create a managed transport service, and eCargo delivered this solution for 5Star within a matter of weeks.

Read here for more information…

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Did You Know..?

This month we return with two new tips in the 'Did You Know..?' series.

In this issue we highlight two new features that have recently been added to eCargo Online, allowing you effectively manage your account easier.

• Auto-emailing of freight invoices - You can now setup your invoicing customers or suppliers to receive freight invoices created in eCargo automatically, emailed in PDF or CSV format. This is available from the 'Change Business Details' link under the Admin tab.
  
  
  • Contact us in order to discussion your requirements for this new service.
   
• Password security - As much as you may think "it will never happen to me", password fraud is a big issue on the Internet. Make sure your passwords contain numbers as well as letters and don't use the same one on every website. We strongly recommend changing your deafult password as soon as possible.
• • You can now change your password via eCargo Online and well as through eCargo Premium. Here's how to do it:
  • eCargo Online: From the eCargo website, log in and click the Admin tab. Locate the My eCargo menu and click the Change Password link.
  • eCargo Premium: In the Summary screen, click the My Profile button at the left of the screen. This will open your web browser and take you to the Change Personal Details screen. Click the 'cancel' button to go back to the Admin screen where you can change your password from My eCargo.

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That's it for this month, next month we'll be releasing new invoicing screens to make the management of freight invoices all that much easier!

Regards,
The eCargo Team