| 摘要 |
<p>A logistics system manages the shipments of goods supplied from a plurality of different shippers by a plurality of carriers. It has a variety of modules integrated with each other to perform various functionalities. For example, it may have purchasing module evaluating proposals (201) by shippers for respective shipments of goods and awarding contracts for the shipments to the plurality of carriers. It may have an optimization module analyzing the proposals (204) and informing the purchasing module if an opportunity exists for consolidating shipments. It may have a contract administration module maintaining information relating to the status of proposals received and contracts awarded by the purchasing module. It may have a scheduling module scheduling shipments and a shipment management module tracking the status of shipments awarded. It may further have a financial module authorizing the payments according to the status of shipments tracked by shipment management module.</p> |
