Challenges and Opportunities in Logistics Management in the Transport Sector

How do you meet the challenges and keep control of your transport and logistics business? That's precisely where OBC comes in as an indispensable solution. In what follows, we'll explore the functionalities that enable you to control your costs and gain in operational efficiency.

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13/09/2023

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The transport sector is one of the pillars of the economy in emerging countries, ensuring the movement of goods. However, there's no doubt that logistics management in this sector faces major challenges. Transport companies are continually challenged to maintain an efficient fleet, manage operational costs, meet stringent maintenance requirements, plan complex routes, and satisfy increasingly demanding customers.

Success in this field relies on precise logistics management, efficient fleet maintenance and rigorous financial management.

Digitalize the Logistics Business

OBC enables you to digitize all your logistics, giving you the possibility of configuring your fleet, automating the administrative and technical management of your fleet, planning preventive and corrective maintenance, automating fuel management and tracking, and optimizing route planning. You can also digitize the management of your garage, including requests, interventions, maintenance schedules, progress reports and utilization levels. With OBC, you can manage your fleet's availability with unrivalled precision.

Improve the Quality of Your Accounting Reporting and Financial Management

Financial management is simplified with OBC. You can set up your general and third-party charts of accounts, and automate accounting allocations, purchasing, sales, inventory management and payroll cycles. Cost accounting lets you track your costs by truck, and the accounting dashboard gives you full visibility of accounting and cost allocations, and third-party cost balances. Track cash account balances in real time, manage multiple subsidiaries with ease, and calculate and track tax returns.

Monitor Labor and Human Resources Management

OBC integrates human resources management seamlessly. You can track your workforce, automate the clocking-in and payroll of your day laborers, calculate the pay of your permanent employees with a single click, and automatically generate administrative documents. Automated overtime tracking and monitoring of your drivers' driving hours simplify personnel management. What's more, you can generate your social security declarations at the click of a button.

Integrate Purchasing and Inventory into Your Management System

OBC offers integrated purchasing and inventory management. You can assign and control access to logistics, requisitions and purchase requisitions, automate the entire purchasing process (from requirements expression to purchase order generation), and automate stock management, including item management, requisitioning, warehouse management and stock level valuation.

Manage Your Performance Indicators

With OBC, you can monitor your performance indicators in real time. You can parameterize your organization chart and employees, manage fleet profitability, manage or import your time and attendance data, monitor spare parts and fuel consumption, manage profitability by customer, and automate the management of your fixed assets.

Automate Your Invoicing and Customer Reports

OBC simplifies invoicing by allowing you to edit BLSs by customer and generate invoices automatically. You can also monitor collections and automate customer reminders, while generating customized customer reports.

In conclusion, OBC is the essential tool for transport companies seeking to optimize their operations, improve their financial management, and remain competitive in a constantly evolving sector. If you're ready to revolutionize your company's logistics and management, discover the benefits OBC has to offer today.

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