摘要 |
An inland freight management module manages inland moves of freight from a plurality of vendor supply locations to port and includes a profile maintenance component, a load planning component, and a load routing and booking component. The load planning component is programmed for planning field consolidation of one or more container loads via a multi-stop route between the plurality of vendor supply locations. A gateway balancing module balances shipments of a plurality of containers between a plurality of associated gateways and includes a determine demand subcomponent, a calculate containers subcomponent, a determine capacity subcomponent, and a generate balance recommendations subcomponent. The generate balance recommendations subcomponent is adapted to provide a user with a gateway balancing recommendation based upon a comparison of a handicapped gateway demand and de-consolidation capacities of each of the plurality of associated gateways.
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