Freight Forwarders Software - Quotation

The quotation system of an air freight forwarding system enables the participating logistics providers to offer shipping quotations and arrive at binding agreements with the customers online. The freight forwarders quotation program enables customers to describe the product, put a price for it and to specify the time of shipment.

The quotation module allows the website visitors to clarify their doubts about any details of one’s air freight service and to enter the relevant details in the required form and to email the necessary information to your dispatcher. If the customer’s requirements could be approved, the dispatcher can forward a confirmation back for verification.

As the quotation software instantly calculates the actual shipping rates before the online buyers are finished with their purchase, it ensures that the user certainly pockets the actual shipping cost needed without any difficulties, when it is time to pay your shipping bill. With the number of buyers utilizing the internet increasing day-by-day, using the software makes sure better and smooth business without any worries. The freight forwarders quotation program also gives facilities for open quotation.

The main page of the quotation program allows the user to write, view, print or emails the quotations or estimates, form pricelists and catalogs and convert quote to invoice. Also an alert makes the user aware about the quotations that are not accepted yet by a client so that the user can follow up and prevent the clients from buying somewhere else. It comes handy when the statistics reveal that, often quotations flop because of no subsequent following up.

The freight forwarders quotation software has been designed with a wider range of dynamism and flexibility in mind. It has been scrupulously architected to perform in diverse environments and across different platforms. While the module accounts for all the standard functionalities, customization of the module is still possible, to match the business model followed by a particular client.

The quotation system helps the manufacturing company in formation, issue, and tracking of customer quotations. The quotation package gives the user the capability to quickly and accurately form a customer quotation by utilizing the product component cost, operation information and labor standard from the manufacturing data base. Any new raw materials, components, or operations may be submitted on-line. Complete tooling information by tool is also submitted on-line. After entering margin and commission factors, the user is provided with an itemized quotation summary, either on-line at the CRT or printed.

Receiving, issue and follow-up dates are kept for the quotation, as well as contract status, win/loss reason, and competitors pricing. This enables on-line tracking of all quotations, and with the utilization of Data Retrieval query language, allows for easy analysis of issued quotations, tailored to the user's requirements.

Quotation system helps users to store customer name, address, blue print and quotation information. It assists in tracking of customer inquiry, quotation issue and revision date. Automatic access is provided to cost and manufacturing information on any ingredient of the quoted end item which is currently alive in the manufacturing control system. It facilitates the easy on-line entry of new components, operations and standards currently alive in the manufacturing data base. Multi-level quotation capability is also among the benefits of quotation system.