Three separate services
Mercor Trader...
...enables traders to communicate with their overseas counterparts, establish trade transactions and share information with their freight service providers.
Mercor Forwarder...
...enables freight service providers to communicate with customers and partners, to produce the documentation required to enable goods movements and to deal with regulatory authorities.
Mercor Gateway...
...supports the operation of these products by connecting them to overseas service providers, port systems and others connecting traders in one country with those in another and providing information about goods movements.
That work together and with other service providers to deliver the following major benefits...
Mercor™ enables supply chain partners to collaborate, share and re-use information. This enables traders and freight service providers to access the right information at the right time and get control over the process in an increasingly complex environment.
Mercor™ enables more effective compliance with increasing regulatory requirements by making the information necessary available at the right time and automatically building audit trails of transactions and goods movements.
Mercor™ helps reduce the cost of the process in the following ways.
- By increasing the re-use and accuracy of information
- By improving the timeliness and speed of information exchange between partners
- By reducing the use and exchange of paper
- By enabling timely and accurate document presentation when it is necessary
- By reducing delays and the costs of inventory, storage, penalties and the other knock-on costs that arise from non-delivery according to schedule
Mercor™ helps to keep goods moving by enabling the right information to be presented at the right time, by providing information about where goods are in the process and enabling effective collaboration amongst supply chain partners to better enable them to deal with problems and delays.
Freight transportation is one of the most volatile costs in the supply chain partly due to the problems that can arise. Getting better visibility of and control over the process is key to reducing these costs for traders and improving margins for freight service providers.