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1-Stop Connections



Providers of Systematic Cargo Tracking services in Australia

Business owners involved in shipping their products within Australia or overseas use the services provided by agents to make the shipment from the different Australian ports. One of the main requirements is to ensure timely delivery of consignment to their customers. In order to track the progress of the consignment, exporters and importers in Australia can utilize the tracking services provided by 1-Stop Connections.

What is the role played by 1-Stop Connections

They provide a hub that helps the freight and logistics people in Australia to perform functions such as

1. Container and vessel tracking
2. Vehicle booking at the container terminals
3. Pre receival advices
4. Invoice generation and Payment system
5. Processing Electronic import delivery orders

1-Stop Connections also helps the different stakeholders involved in Freight and Logistics operations including the ports, terminals, freight forwarders, custom brokers, depots, importers and exporters and road and rail operators.

Benefits of partnering with 1-Stop Connections

By engaging the services provided by 1-Stop Connections, the different stakeholders can:

1. Have access to up-to-minute information on the vessel and container movements
2. Generate the required reports for Australian Customs services
3. Save cost by automating frequently performed transactions
4. Respond quickly to the queries posted by their customers
5. Use this system as the main point of contact and touch base with different providers through this single system

Stake holder wise Benefits provided

Container terminal

The solution provided by 1-Stop Connections helps the container terminal to perform the following functions:

1. Help the container terminals manage their core operations
2. Manage Vehicle booking through vehicle online booking system
3. Access to the payment and invoice solutions provided by them

Importer and Exporter

This group gets the following benefits by using the 1-Stop Connections solution

1. Generation of Electronic import delivery orders using the EIDO component
2. Paperless invoicing and payment solutions using ComPay application services provided by them
3. Validation of the Booking List data available
4. Perform reconciliation of the confirmed and cancelled booking orders

Road and Rail Partners

1. Access to the 1-Stop Connections gateway application that would help the road and rail operators to view the real time live data related to vessel and container status
2. Access to the Train consist application, which would help them send messages to the container terminals on a regular basis
3. Perform electronic rail tag status updates about the different terminals
4. Perform online Vehicle booking

Benefits for Freight forwarders and custom brokers

1. Access to the gateway solution for keeping close track of the vessel and container movements
2. Access to the ComTrac solution for performing electronic data messaging

Business Intelligence suite

In addition to the application services provided by 1-Stop Connections, they also have a business intelligence solution that would help the different stake holders to convert their operational and historic data into meaningful data. This meaningful data can be used to check the current operational levels by checking them with the history data. Based on the comparison results, corrective action can be taken to bring the results back to the normal levels. The meaningful data can also be used to arrive at trends, which would help the top management to spot new business opportunities.

By partnering with 1-Stop Connections, the different stake-holders get to benefit from the expertise gained by 1-Stop Connections over the past 10 years in the sea-freight supply chain environment.