Shipment Status, Milestones, and Operational Tracking for Freight Forwarders
OAS Freight provides structured tools for tracking shipment progress, managing operational milestones, and maintaining visibility across active work. These capabilities are designed to support real forwarding workflows while allowing organizations to control how information is monitored and shared. The system is designed as part of OAS Freight’s core freight forwarding software platform, ensuring that operational visibility remains integrated with documentation, billing, and accounting processes.
Milestones and Tracking Events
Shipments, master bills, and related operational activities can be tracked using user-definable milestones and status events. These milestones may reflect the operational steps most relevant to an organization, such as cargo receipt, documentation completion, loading, sailing, arrival, or delivery.
Projected milestone dates may be compared against actual completion dates, allowing teams to identify upcoming or overdue events and support proactive follow-up. Milestones are entered and managed by operational staff, allowing organizations to maintain control over how status data is defined and recorded.
Operational Alerts and Visibility
OAS Freight includes an alerts framework designed to surface items requiring attention. Alerts may appear when users log in, highlighting conditions such as overdue milestones, missing documentation, non-invoiced shipments, or other operational exceptions.
This approach helps teams remain focused on active priorities without relying on constant manual review of shipment data.
Status Notifications and Communications
Status updates may trigger outbound notifications as milestones are entered or updated. Notifications can be delivered through email or other electronic methods and are configured to reflect operational requirements.
Outbound messages are generated from user-defined templates and sent using sender information associated with the user or organization. Message content may be customized to include relevant shipment details and formatted to match the organization’s preferred tone.
Audience-Specific Visibility
Customers and trading partners may be organized into groups to support differentiated visibility and communications. These groupings help organizations tailor how status information is shared based on operational needs and customer relationships. These controls allow freight forwarders to manage how shipment information is exposed to different customers, agents, or partners.
Integration and Data Exchange
Status and tracking information may also be exchanged through integration mechanisms such as EDI, file-based exchange, or web services. These options allow organizations to share operational updates with external systems or partner platforms as required. These integrations support structured exchange of shipment status information without requiring duplicate data entry.
Request a Demonstration
Status and tracking capabilities are often best understood in the context of real operational workflows. OAS Freight is typically introduced through a short discussion or demonstration to review requirements and determine fit.