APPARATUS AND METHOD OF COLLECTING AN MONITORING SHIPMENT DATA

摘要

A system for collecting and monitoring shipment data, wherein service providers can enter in the system shipment data that is indicative of the attributes of a plurality of customer shipments. The shipment data reflects the attributes of each customer shipment and/or events Occurring during its shipment cycle. The system comprises a plurality of customer terminals, a web server, a central computer and a plurality of disparate shipment data input terminals. The customer terminals comprise a display, a data input device and a computer being programmed to facilitate the customer to input a request for the shipment data of the customer's shipments. The central computer comprises a shipment-tracking database for receiving and storing shipment data. The central computer being programmed to access shipment data elements to determine the compliance statistics and whether shipment data has been entered in each core data element of each shipment.