FreightSupplyChain Trinity Business Solutions Limited International Freight Consolidators March 2001 Trinity Business Solutions Limited International Freight Consolidators March 2001 Freight Supply Chain

Overview FreightSupplyChain provides quantifiable business benefits to Importers and Freight Forwarders. Internet based Business to Business system Low cost of entry Better management of logistics from Freight Forwarder perspective

System Context Importer Freight Supply Chain Transport Agencies Quarantine Service Customs Agents Fumigation Agents Overseas Agents Overseas Supplier Freight Forwarder

Features & Benefits (Importer) Order Management –Negotiate and finalise Orders with suppliers in real time. No paper work involved, reduced time. –On finalisation, automatic routing of Orders to supplier and Freight Forwarder. –Re ordering based on historic orders and quantities unable to be shipped. –Status of Order available at any time.

Features & Benefits (Importer) Order Tracking –Importer defined tracking dates. Importer can be automatically advised of a change in ETA. Customs and Duties –Customs Tariffs are stored against all products. –Landed costs for individual line items is available in real time, once the customs agent’s exchange rates are entered

Features & Benefits (Importer) Low Cost of Ownership –FSC can be hosted on secure Internet servers. No software needs to be installed on your computer servers –A user only needs a standard Web Browser and Internet connection to access the system. No installation or maintenance is required on users PC’s

Features & Benefits (Importer) Inventory Management. –Quantity shipped and to be shipped are available in real time for all products. Critical information for your inventory management systems Warehouse receival planning –View expected orders to be received over a nominated period. Can be used to trigger the appropriate warehouse receival processes.

Features & Benefits (Importer) Interfacing with other systems –Custom Interfaces can be written to interface your Inventory and ERP systems with FSC. Trinity can cost- effectively deliver such solutions

Features & Benefits (Forwarder) Manage business in real time –FSC is a real time system with system generated notifications to the relevant external parties. Purchase orders are Visible –See finalised Purchase Orders immediately they are finalised by the client - no longer have to wait for faxed copies.

Features & Benefits (Forwarder) Customer Loyalty –By providing FSC to your Importer Clients, you can add value to your customer relationships and build market share Reduce data entry –Overseas Agents can now directly enter shipment information into the system, rather than it being sent via Fax or and then re-entered by the Freight Forwarder

Features & Benefits (Forwarder) Cost effective solution for Freight Forwarders –Software and support can be leased on a monthly basis or can be licenced. –Can be hosted on a secure site. No capital costs in purchasing, installing and maintaining hardware and software on your site –Can be installed on a Forwarders site. Software is compatible with all major hardware and software platforms - low cost of support for your IT staff.

Specifications (User machines) User requirements: –PC or Macintosh running Internet Explorer version 4.x or above Netscape Navigator version 4.x or above –SMTP server access

Specifications (Server) Server requirements (if installed on site) –Web/Application Server Unix running Apache, Web Sphere NT running IIS4 –Database Server (if applicable) OEM ODBC database Oracle, SQL Server, UDB etc Server requirements (if hosted externally) –None

Pricing (Services) Configuration and Training Licensing Options include: –Software Licence fee –Monthly Software Lease agreement –Transaction Fee per finalised purchase order Additional Consulting services

Pricing (Hosted & on Site) Installed on your site –Server Hardware cost –Server System Software cost –Software Installation fee Hosted at Tele-housing site –Monthly Hosting fee only

Availability Version 1 –Controlled availability March 2001 –General availability July 2001 Version 1.1 –General availability Oct 2001 Hosted services –Available from July 2001 –Using purpose built tele-housing facilities