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Transport Management
 

The solution in hand covers a transport company which has its own fleet of vehicles as well as those which are hired from the market to meet the transportation needs of the Indian industry. Cargo, vehicles, mines and minerals and any other transporting needs of an organization with pan India presence gets immensely facilitated by the solution.

Branch Office. A single Delivery Order / Request contain single type of Material only
Once the Delivery Order / Request is received, your company needs to allocate vehicle (Vehicle could be own vehicle or from other transporter). Driver places the vehicle at the loading point of the customer. After loading, customer provides all the required documents like Excise Invoice, Road Challan, etc. required for Transportation to the loading officer of your company. After receiving the documents, your company generates LR containing vehicle details, materials details, consignor & consignee name, destination, weight, etc.

Multiple vehicles may be placed against single Delivery Order / Request based on weight of the Material mentioned and multiple LR would be generated against single Delivery Order / Request if multiple vehicles are placed. However there is no scope of generation of single LR against multiple Delivery Order / Request.

Single LR would be generated against each vehicle and each LR would have a single Freight Memo only,
Which contains Freight Rate and Total Freight Amount, Advance, TDS, etc. TDS value is entered manually into Freight Memo.

Freight Invoice – Account Receivables
Freight Invoice is raised periodically or at the end of execution of a specific Transport Order. For customers with Transport Agreement/Contract, the invoices are raised in regular intervals. Invoices are based on LR.

Freight Payable Invoice – Account Payable
In case of vehicles from other transporter/broker, the party raises invoice as per agreed freight rate and terms & condition. Here companies may calculate the late delivery from the Expected Transit Time

Credit Note
If there is any change in rate due to any reason Transport companies need to generate Credit Note against an invoice to claim the additional receivable payment.

Debit Note
Similarly the provision of generating credit note is also there in the system

 Vehicle Maintenance Register
Branch Offices may also maintain Vehicle Register for their easy reference. Vehicle register contains the details like Registration No., Date of Registration, Expiry of Registration, Tax Token No., National Permit Expiry Date, Fitness Expiry Date, NP Pollution Expiry Date, Pollution Expiry Date, Insurance Expiry Date, etc. This vehicle registers helps to identify the renewal dates of different aspects.

Vehicle Movement Register
Vehicle Movement Register consists of Date and Time of Arrival, KM reading (Arrival), Date & Time of Departure, KM Reading (Departure). Vehicle Movement Register helps to forecast the availability of own vehicle.

Driver Master
Driver Master is maintained to keep the Driver’s details such as Driver’s Name, Address, License No, License Expiry Date, Issuing Authority, Photo of Driver, etc. By this register it is secured that licensed drivers are driving the vehicle.

 Vehicle wise Driver Register Maintenance
Companies can also maintain vehicle wise driver allocation. This helps them to calculate the payable amount to the drivers. Payments to the drivers are made vehicle wise.

Tyre Register Maintenance
This is a very important feature indeed. Companies can maintain vehicle wise tyre change register. First time when the tyre is replaced company needs to capture details like Model, KM Reading, Person Changed, Resoling, etc. By maintaining these details they would do analysis like Model wise average life, individual life, life after resoling, etc., which in turn will help them to procure the best one for their transport services. Initially while purchasing new vehicle, tyre is treated as a fixed asset and it becomes a part of the entire vehicle. But from next time onwards when there is requirement of replacement, tyre is neither purchased as a fixed asset nor as an item. Through Normal voucher the tyre is procured.

 Billing (Different provisions)
1. Monthly Billing:
2. Challan billing:

Service on Request
Your customers may request you to provide transportation service for bringing materials from other location to your customer’s location. The provision for doing this is also provided in the system.

 Process
On approval of the quotation, Transport Company allocates vehicle and provides the service. Here also LR and FM are generated. Multiple LR may be generated against single transportation but single FM is generated.

 Freight Payable Invoice – Account Payable
The other transporter claims the balance amount on time -to-time basis based on the receipted LR. TDS is calculated on the total freight value deducted from the balance payable. TDS rate is dependent on the applicable rate as per certificate provided by the transporter.As TRANSPORT COMPANY. claims challan amount, ODC amount from the consignor, similarly TRANSPORT COMPANY. pays the other transporter. Sometime TRANSPORT COMPANY. also repays the bribe (based on management decision) which other
transporter paid during transportation. TDS is not deducted for these types of reimbursement.

 Credit Note
If there is any change in rate due to any reason TRANSPORT COMPANY. needs to generate Credit Note against an invoice to claim the additional receivable payment.

 Debit Note
TRANSPORT COMPANY. needs to generate Debit Note While deducting payments from other transporter for specific reason.

 Vehicle Maintenance Register
TRANSPORT COMPANY. also maintains Vehicle Register for their easy reference. Vehicle register contains the details like Registration No., Date of Registration, Expiry of Registration, Tax Token No., National Permit Expiry Date, Fitness Expiry Date, NP Pollution Expiry Date, Pollution Expiry Date, Insurance Expiry Date, etc. This vehicle registers helps to identify the renewal dates of different aspects.

 Vehicle Movement Register
Vehicle Movement Register consists of Date and time of arrival, KM reading (arrival), Date & Time of departure, KM Reading (Departure). TRANSPORT COMPANY. also maintains the position of each vehicle at its branches.

 Driver Master
Driver Master is maintained to keep the Driver’s details such as Driver’s Name, address, License No, License Expiry Date, Issuing Authority, Photo of driver, etc. By this register TRANSPORT COMPANY. secures that licensed drivers are driving the vehicle.

 Vehicle wise Driver Register Maintenance
TRANSPORT COMPANY. maintains vehicle wise driver allocation. This helps them to calculate the payable amount to the drivers.

 Tyre Register Maintenance
TRANSPORT COMPANY. maintains vehicle wise tyre change register. First time when the tyre is replaced TRANSPORT COMPANY. needs to capture details like Model, KM Reading, Person Changed, Resoling, etc. By maintaining these details they would do analysis like Model wise average life, individual life, life after resoling, etc., which in turn will help them to procure the best one for their transport services. Initially while purchasing new vehicle, tyre is treated as a fixed asset and it becomes a part of the entire vehicle. But from next time onwards when there is requirement of replacement, tyre is neither purchased as a fixed asset nor as an item. Through Normal voucher the tyre is procured. However TRANSPORT COMPANY. maintains a stock of Scraped & Resoled Tyre. These types of tyre will be created in Item Master and stock will be maintained by positive adjustment or negative adjustment through Item Journal.

 Fixed Assets Management

 Process Description
 Defining a Fixed Asset
All fixed assets will be defined in the Fixed Assets module. Before any fixed asset transaction can be passed, a master record of the asset needs to be created first.

 Purchase of Fixed Asset
Purchase of fixed assets will take place through a purchase order where after receipt of the fixed asset, a posting entry will be passed from the purchase order itself. However, prior to this the fixed asset card must be available with at least the company depreciation book attached. Once the acquisition is made, all entries are transferred to the respective fixed assets ledger. Associated to this is that if any component that is replaced in a fixed asset will require another card and will have to set up similar to any fixed asset using a fixed asset card.
However such assets will have to be linked to the fixed asset as a component through a reference. Book Value of the Asset will be the summation of Main Asset & component assets.

 Calculating and Posting Depreciation
Depreciation will be based on the St. Line method. It will be calculated through a batch process. No user intervention takes place.

 Sale of a Fixed Asset
Sale of an asset will be made using a sales order in the sales and receivable module. The impact will be made in the chart of accounts in terms of profit or loss made and also in the fixed asset register in terms of accounting entries.

 Insurance
Insurance of Fixed Asset will take place through Insurance in Fixed Asset Module and related transaction will be passed through Insurance Journal.

 Annual Maintenance
Annual Maintenance of Fixed Asset will tale place through Maintenance in Fixed Asset Module and related transaction will take place through Fixed Asset Journal

 Purchase through Finance / Finance against Fixed Asset
Purchase of Fixed Asset, mainly vehicles are taken place through Finance scheme. Also finance is taken against Fixed Asset. Financer Details and Payment Schedule will be maintained separately.

Defining a Financer
All financer will be defined as a vendor and needs to be created through vendor card in Purchase & Payable Module. However vendor will be defined as per finance serial no and will be under a specific vendor group.

 Maintain Financer Payment schedule
After receiving the Finance from financer all the finance amount details like Principal Amount, Finance charges, EMI Details need to be maintained.

 Payment to Financer – Accounts Payable
Payment to financer will take place monthly as per payment schedule through a batch process. It will be periodic activity.