@Plant Manager®

• Screening of available empty cars for loading product compatible with prior contents
• Combined move and confirm activities for locations requiring one-step movements
• Car filing activity with weight integration in BOL for full or partial loads and integration with pre-load storage management
• Integrated movement lists and walking list
• Rail yard inventory reports by track, spot and or by railcar numbers.
• Multi-tank car billing and loading support.
• Integrated Import / Export capabilities for data interchange with user systems.

• Multi-plant control capabilities for both car movement and billing.
• Multiple serving carrier defaults for plants served by multiple carriers.
• Loading rack scheduling activities, site-specific rack schedules and rack loading sheets available.
• Through commenting flexibility with three comment options.
  • Car Level - The information stays with the car indefinitely.
  • Trip Level - Comment stays with the car for that trip through the plant.
  • Move Level - Comment stays with the car for theat particular move inside the plant.
  • All comments are retained in history.

This piece of functionality would provide the customer with a standardized billing option outside of your ERP system. Several of our customers have instances where for a series of reasons they cannot bill a car using their ERP system. In these circumstances many have chosen to standardize around QTS' system. QTS' integrated billing module would provide several advantages:

• Uniform corporate processes.
• Accurate record retention.
• Corporate wiede viewing flexibility.
• Easy access to historical billing records.

Some of the features of our billing module are:

• Preparation and transmittal of Electronic (EDI) Bill of Lading.
• Fully Hazmat compliant.
• Preparation of individual or multi-car EDI BOLs.
• User-defined car string feature with either individual or multi-car BOL output to carriers.
• Printed BOL form available in standard or customer-specific formats.
• Printing and faxing of hardcopy BOL integrated with EDI transmittals.
• Retention of critical BOL information including carrier confirmation and acknowledgement dates.
• Integrated faxing of BOLs to carriers, consignees and other internal and external parties.
• Preparation and transmittal of weight adjustments (EDI 440).
• Export of order information / BOL information and activity to the ERP systems.

This module supports trucking activities in and around a plant. It is designed to ensure consistent efficient management of trucks coming into and out of your facility. The features and functionality this module provides are as follows:

Truck-Scheduling Functionality

• Visibility of carrier and pickup date/time for trucks.
• Ability to schedule carrier and pickup date/time for trucks.
• Ability to assign spot (rack or dock) locations for each truck.

It also provides truck-gate personnel with the ability to:

• Access truck-scheduling information.
• Enter truck identification weight into @PlantManager DB.
• Print required documentation for the trucker.

The application has 4 main functions:

• Accessing scheduled orders, orders to be scheduled, and orders being fulfilled.
• Scheduling trucks.
• Processing truck arrival, capturing truck information and printing incoming documents packet.
• Processing truck departure, capturing weight and printing outgoing documents packet.

• This module consolidates all information relating to yard moves and switches then places it in a reporting format which permits the user to review all car movement activities.
• As a result the user can easily manage demurrage costs.

• This module provides a flexible user friendly interface which permits the user to review data at a summary level or drill down to detailed and specific car movement activities over any period of time.
• This module also has QTS' one click Excel download functionality. With one click the user downloads the movement information onto the clipboard from where they can easily paste it into a spreadsheet for further analysis.