Introduction to Truck Appointment System
Truck Appointment System (TAS) is a system used to reduce truck queues and speed up the loading and unloading process at terminals or ports to organize the scheduled arrival and departure of trucks.
TAS is becoming increasingly important with increasing trade volumes and the need to optimize global supply chains. With proper implementation, TAS can help increase efficiency, reduce costs, and improve services at terminals and ports.
Features of TransTRACK's Truck Appointment System
TransTRACK's Truck Appointment System (TAS) has several features designed to improve terminal or port operational efficiency. Here's a look at the features of TransTRACK's Truck Appointment System:
- Efficient Queue Management: This feature enables terminals or ports to manage truck queues efficiently. TAS TransTRACK can set priorities and optimally organize the order in which trucks arrive, thus avoiding unnecessary buildup and ensuring smooth traffic flow.
- Capacity Availability Management: TAS TransTRACK can monitor and manage capacity availability at terminals or ports. This allows users to know the available capacity to receive new trucks and avoid overbooking that can cause delays or other operational disruptions.
- Reduction of Waiting Time: By enabling appointment setting and scheduling of truck arrivals, the system helps avoid backlogs and significantly lowers waiting times. This can increase productivity, reduce operating costs, and improve customer satisfaction.
Functions of Truck Appointment System
Here are some of the main functions of the Truck Appointment System:
- Arrival Scheduling: TAS allows users, such as truck drivers or logistics companies, to make appointments or schedule arrival times for their trucks to the terminal or port.
- Capacity Management: TAS helps in managing the availability of capacity at the terminal or port by monitoring the number of trucks allowed to enter the terminal area in a given time.
- Waiting Time Reduction: With organized scheduling of arrival times, TAS helps avoid truck backlogs and optimize the loading and unloading process more efficiently.
- Monitoring and Reporting: Information collected from the system can be used to analyze operational efficiency, identify problems, and make necessary improvements.
- Priority Management: TAS can assist in prioritizing truck arrivals based on importance, cargo type, or other relevant factors.
- Improved Predictability: By knowing when trucks will arrive and depart, relevant parties such as terminal operators, customers, and carriers can better plan their operations, improving predictability in the supply chain.
Benefits of Using TransTRACK's Truck Appointment System
Using TransTRACK's Truck Appointment System (TAS) provides a number of benefits, including:
- Reduced Waiting Time: TAS TransTRACK helps reduce truck waiting time at terminals or ports by efficiently managing appointments and scheduling arrivals.
- Capacity Optimization: With careful management of capacity availability, TAS TransTRACK ensures terminals or ports can operate at optimal capacity without overbooking that can disrupt traffic flow.
- Queue Efficiency: An efficient queue management system helps reduce congestion at terminal or port entrances, improving overall traffic flow.
- Increased Productivity: By reducing waiting times and improving truck organization, TAS TransTRACK increases operational productivity at the terminal or port, allowing more trucks to be serviced in the same time period.
- Increased Predictability: With regular scheduling and performance monitoring, TAS TransTRACK increases predictability in the supply chain, enabling better planning for all parties involved.
- Monitoring and Analysis: TransTRACK is equipped with monitoring and reporting features that allow users to monitor terminal or port performance, identify potential issues, and make necessary improvements.
Suitable Companies Using Truck Appointment System
Truck Appointment System (TAS) is suitable for companies in the logistics, mining, plantation, and agriculture industries due to:
- Logistics: TAS helps logistics companies efficiently organize freight shipments, reduce lead times, and increase productivity.
- Mining: TAS enables mining companies to properly manage material shipments, optimize infrastructure usage, and manage capacity availability at terminals or ports.
- Plantations & Agriculture: TAS helps companies in this sector organize the distribution of crops and raw materials efficiently, ensuring products stay fresh and avoid delays.
TransTRACK Accident Compensation
TransTRACK is the first and only fleet telematics provider in Indonesia to provide accident compensation based on the TransTRACK GPS tool. This compensation is provided for a maximum of 3 people with 50 million for those who experience death and permanent disability, 5 million for medical expenses, and 5 million for funeral compensation.