Planning

Business Benefits

• Unified planning and execution environment
• Integrates visual overview with quantitative analysis
• Fully integrated with existing IMOS modules and features
• Provides a drag-and-drop interface for evaluating cargo and vessel scheduling alternatives
• Understand the impact of each decision on total scenario profitability and resource utilization
• Understand decision impact from multiple perspectives: time, utilization, cost, and side effects
• Simple end-user configurability supports individual chartering styles and decision-making criteria
• Quickly define programs to support multi-user and multi-program environments

Cargo Matching

Cargo Matching has dramatically improved productivity and performance for our clients. Developed and fine-tuned over a four-year period with input from some of the world's leading commercial marine schedulers and charterers, this innovative tool matches cargoes to ships with drag-and-drop convenience, generating a pro forma vessel schedule and P&L. The Cargo Matching tool is tightly integrated with the position book and all the IMOS modules. Cargoes can be drawn from a COA contract stored in the database.

A graphical schedule displays open cargoes in chronological order, by loading port, or in another sort order.  Cargo bars indicate quantity and status. Users can access cargo details with a simple click on the graph. And they can assign a vessel to make a Voyage Estimate or produce a Fixture Note. The system will propose optimal cargo-vessel combinations and also allow the user to drag and drop cargoes to test various scenarios.

Highlights:

• Simultaneously grasp the big picture and underlying details
• Provides a visual drag-and-drop interface for evaluating cargo and vessel scheduling alternatives
• Understand net income, bunker expenses, voyage expenses, idle days, and voyage days
• Plan multiple voyages simultaneously across a set of vessels or cargoes
• Define Programs to organize planning by Trade-Aarea, charterer, Cargo Group, ports, line of business, division of labor, and other business characteristics
• Best vessel feature suggests schedule options based availability, ability to make laycans, distance, and utilitization
• Plan spot and contract cargo voyages
• Quickly test alternative decisions to optimize cargo assignments and vessel utilization
• Understand the impact of each decision on total scenario profitability and resource utilization
• Understand decision impact from multiple perspectives: time, utilization, cost, and side effects
• Simple end-user configurability supports individual chartering styles and decision-making criteria
• Quickly define programs to support multi-user and multi-program chartering environments

Job Planning

Veson has applied a similar model of Gantt / Grid visual planning to offshore fleet management. Job Planning is used to plan and operate a fleet of offshore vessels where operators need to quickly adjust schedules to meet changing situations.

Highlights:

• Capture job contracts and master contracts
• Use drag and drop to test vessel assignments and evaluate decision scenarios
• Understand net income, bunker expenses, voyage expenses, idle days, and voyage days
• React quickly to changing conditions
• Streamline financial management and billing
• Enhance job profitability and fleet utilization
• Manage jobs from contract to invoice
• Identify the best vessel assignments
• Understand all aspects of a scenario