We are pleased to inform you that we have launched a new version of our Transport Operations (TOPS) Control Tower: 2024 v6.
New Features
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Feature Improvements
Ocean Booking information shown to related pre-/on-carriage transports
Currency conversion rate extended to 10 decimals
Billing date considers valid currency conversion rate
Billing date change will consider new currency check
Display of related transport orders to an Ocean transport changed
Improvement: Multiple Selection of Shipping unit within Rate Explorer
Showing all types of material order documents to customer portal users
Checkpoints visible to customer portal users
Setting stackability as a compulsory field for customer portal users
🚀 New features
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🌈 Feature improvements
Ocean Booking information shown to related pre-/on-carriage transports
Goal
Currently the Ocean Booking information is only shown at the Main Haul transport order.
The Ocean Booking relevant information are relevant as well checking e.g. On-carriage transport orders.
Currency conversion rate extended to 10 decimals
Goal
Support different currency conversions in correct calculations.
How to Use:
Add a currency rate up to 10 decimals
Admin --> Cost Management --> Currency Exchange
Save
The calculation will consider all decimals to calculate to the used currency in e.g. the transport order
Price fields stick to 2 decimals for example 10,50 EUR
Billing date considers valid currency conversion rate
Goal
The currency exchange rate will be compared with the Billing date in the transport order.
Until now the transport order creation date was considered to select the valid currency rate
How to Use:
Create a currency exchange rate
The Billing date in the transport order set by user or by automatism (Master Data --> Transport modes)
The Billing date will be consider Currency exchange rates which are Valid from the Billing date
For example:
Transport order "ABC" has Billing date 2024-05-01
In the system two Currency exchange rates exists HUF to EUR
Rate 1: Valid from 2023-01-01
Rate 2: Valid from 2024-05-01
The system will consider Rate 2 based on the Billing date
Each time the Billing date will be updated it will be checked for a valid currency rate
General information: The UTC date is compared of Billing date and Currency exchange rate. The UTC is shown to the user in the application.
Billing date change will consider new currency check
Goal
If the Billing date will be changed automatically based on settings like ETD is updated, the change of the Billing date will lead to consider against the currency rates as well.
So far it validated only against costs.
Display of related transport orders to an Ocean transport changed
Goal
To improve the visibility, only the Main Haul Transport Order will show the relation to all related transports like On-carriage, Pre-carriage.
Related multimodal transports will show only the link to the Man Haul transport.
Old view shows all transport numbers at all related transports:
New view shows more clarity:
Improvement: Multiple Selection of Shipping unit within Rate Explorer
Goal
The rate explorer will offer the option to multi-select parts + considering the part type "Services".
The user will be able to select within Shipping units all out of :
Handling units
Shipping containers
Services
How to Use:
Go to Rate Explorer
Select the division, origin, destination etc.
At the section "Shipping unit" the user can now multiselect parts and their quantities
The user is able also to select "Service" part type
The system will attempt to match the cheapest rates and surcharges with rate class type = by unit or by unit combined that have the corresponding shipping units.
Showing all types of material order documents to customer portal users
In previous versions, only documents set with AOR "External By Customer" were visible to Customer Portal users. Now, the shipper can make all documents (no matter the AOR ) visible to their customer portal users.
When the setting is enabled, all files uploaded on Material Order with AOR type external, external by customer and external by carrier will be available to Customer Portal users. If disabled, only files on material order and set as external by customer will be visible to customer portal users
How to Enable
Go to Admin/Customer Portal Settings
Select "All MO Documents" on the order logic tab.
Checkpoints visible to customer portal users
The admin user can configure the Checkpoint to be shown to their customer portal users.
How to Enable
Go to Admin/Customer Portal Settings
Select "Show Checkpoints" on the order logic tab.
Setting stackability as a compulsory field for customer portal users
The shipper is now able to force their customer portal users to provide stackability during the order creation. When the setting is enabled, the customer portal users must provide the stackability otherwise the order will be not created.
How to Enable
Go to Admin/Customer Portal Settings
Select "Stackability" on the order logic tab.