IBS's SmartCargo wins two Cargo Airlines in North America

Thiruvananthapuram, Mar 7 (UNI) The IBS Software Services has secured orders for its 'SmartCargo,' an air cargo inventory management product, from two North America based cargo airlines.

CargoJet and Northern Air Cargo have chosen IBS offering over other products from international competitors, an IBS release said here today.

Cargojet, headquartered in Toronto, Canada, selected SmartCargo for its combination of optimised inventory control, internet booking capability and online track and trace services.

Cargoject CIO Anju Virmani said, ''We were attracted to SmartCargo because it gives us big cargo system management capabilities at a very cost-effective price.'' Cargojet operates a fleet of B727-200 freighters on cargo routes across Canada.

According to Stephanie Holthaus, Vice President of Cargo-Northern Air Cargo, the company intended to offer e-tracking services to its regular customers and to use the inventory control and revenue management features of the system to improve the freight yield.

Northern Air Cargo is a supplemental air carrier across the state of Alaska. It has a mixed fleet of DC6, B727-100 and ATR 72 freighter aircraft and hauls all types of air cargo.

Mr V K Mathews, Chairman and Managing Director, IBS said, ''SmartCargo was envisioned as an efficient and cost-effective cargo handling system and developed with our considerable domain experience and hardcore technical expertise.'' SmartCargo is a futuristic solution that supports the integrated management of cargo reservations and ground operations. An effective tool for cargo capacity management, tracking, pricing and revenue optimisation, it enables accurate estimation of available cargo capacities using historical information, increases revenue through better management of available capacities.

In addition, it maintains integrated cargo tariffs, thus enabling Airlines to provide the best possible prices and to assess the effectiveness of cargo operations in terms of revenue and provides to-the-point information on shipment status.

It also facilitates communication of shipment status to the supplier/customer, giving Airline customers direct access to Airline services through the internet and supporting barcode scanning enabled operations for ease of data capture and reduced error.

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