We partnered with experts from the trucking and shipping industry to bring you Freight Management Systems (FMS), a suite of applications that allow you to maintain your shipping database. Our Freight Management System is a complete business-integrated software solution. FMS delivers so you can manage your shipments more quickly and efficiently.
The Weight of Commercial Shipping
Commercial shipping is a complex and demanding business. As businesses struggle to properly transport goods, challenges like congestion, inadequate facilities and other logistical problems arise. These issues drive up the cost of shipping drastically. Freight management is the process required to successfully manage the commercial transportation of goods.
Improving the Process
Our Freight Management System allows Surround to deliver benefits that you won’t find anywhere else.
- We Deliver Savings: FMS will greatly reduce the development and maintenance costs and risks.
- We Deliver Stability: Enjoy a more stable application with FMS, using Fourth Generation (GL) Computer Aided Software Engineering.
- We Deliver the Competitive Edge: Develop enhancement requests and modifications in a fraction of the time, so you can keep up-to-date with regulatory changes faster than competitors.
- We Deliver Greater Efficiency and Flexibility: FMS also uses a highly efficient and standardized relational database, which provides greater flexibility and data integrity while keeping development and maintenance costs at a minimum.
- We Deliver Innovation: FMS also saves you time and energy by automating some of the tedious, time-consuming tasks that are involved in managing the delivery of freight.
Features Built for the Future
Our open system architecture offers FMS add-on modules that provide billing and collection functions, manage warehousing, and integrate with document imaging, mapping and global positioning systems.
FMS is available for a variety of computer platforms, including client/server with a standard GUI and a standard Web browser interface.
FMS replaces the complexity of freight management with simplicity by using a standard Graphical User Interface (GUI) Windows interface, which makes FMS simple to learn and use.
Deploy FMS on the platforms that best suit your needs, while also maintaining options for growth and scalability to future platforms.
FMS Product Family
- Customer Management
- Equipment Maintenance
- Inventory Control
- Dispatch Operations
- Order Processing
- Billing and Accounts Receivable
To view our FMS brochure and get more detailed information about these features and more, you can see it online with Adobe Acrobat or you can download it directly to your computer.