Milan Mathew

Intermodal drayage often plays a vital role in the supply chain and logistics industry. Drayage is an integral part of the logistics industry, with numerous organizations using the administration as a need. Drayage is a term utilized by the shipping and logistics sector to describe the process of transporting goods over short distances. While drayage can be utilized for the minor moving of products, as a rule, it is bound to use by the container shipping industry. Drayage can incorporate the trucking of containerized cargo from port to port, or the freight may be taken from a port to a rail yard to start the following leg of its adventure, or the load might be trucked to its ultimate location. 

The intermodal drayage or container drayage procedure begins with the getting of freighted merchandise at an intermodal point, a distribution center, or a marine point. The cargo received is then isolated, stacked and taken to its subsequent destination point. The project CDL1000 is an incredible illustration of this concept.

CD1000 Overview

CDL1000 Inc is an asset-based third-party logistics leader based in Chicago, Illinois. This platform doesn’t have a “one size fits all” solution; rather, they meet with their customers to learn about their business, determine their unmet needs, then designed this solution to improve their supply chain. The CDL1000 doesn’t just move freight; instead, the solution moves information as they recognize the important role of information in supporting the customers’ operations through technology. Changing the way trucking companies move and deliver, CDL 1000 has started with a focus on moving containers in the Chicago region and around the Mid-west. They operate around 60 trucks for short-haul deliveries for customers in the midwest region.

Cost Calculator

The exact calculation of logistics costs has become a real challenge in logistics and supply chain management. It is essential to gain reliable and accurate costing information to attain efficient resource allocation within the logistics service provider companies. Traditional costing approaches, however, may not be sufficient to reach this aim in case of complex and heterogeneous logistics service structures.

The platform improves the way of delivering intermodal containers, as the CDL1000 platform comes with a web cost calculator, which is a new and innovative implementation in the trucking industry. It’s much like a shipping calculator for the drayage-intermodal trucking industry similar to FedEx’s system just for freight forwarders. This technology gives the same price for every transportation and offers a reliable solution to keep track of miles and costs. The cost calculator allows customers to calculate the overlook of the total cost of shipping. The landing page itself gives snappy access to do as such and customers must round out proper data sources like pick up and drop off location, container size, and yard data to get the right output. On the off chance that the customer wishes to proceed with request putting, they can subscribe to the platform by providing personal and contact details, and the customers must add their credit card details for finishing the booking effectively. Customers will get subscribed to the platform while sharing their basic details and by the way, they can generate their login credentials for receiving further real-time updates.

Dispatcher Delivery Board

Dispatchers constantly face operational hurdles that make their work significantly more difficult. In today’s fast-paced dispatch environment, they are tasked with managing both more complex and demanding deliveries. To complicate matters, dispatchers working with multiple delivery providers often need to manually synchronize operations across multiple tablets or dashboards. Without real-time integrations, this manual effort is time-consuming and prone to error.

The platform will overcome this biggest challenge by offers a delivery board for dispatcher, Its features the ability to access and manage the deliveries, drivers, reports and more. Dispatchers will be able to view the list and details of drivers, list and details of deliveries, list, and details of locations, and more. These areas will also allow the dispatcher to manage(view, edit, delete and add new) the deliveries, drivers and locations. The platform also allow them to export the driver and dispatcher report from the dashboard on a weekly or monthly basis.

With centralized, flexible dispatch and delivery management, dispatchers can enjoy real-time visibility and full control across their entire delivery ecosystem. Bring streamlines, measures, manages, and automates the entire delivery process, all from a centralized dispatch dashboard. Smart, automated and semi-automated dispatch, routing and driver management capabilities enable dispatchers to achieve optimal performance and maximize resource usage while maintaining cost efficiency for the optimal ROI.

Real-Time Tracking and Notifications

Making a revolutionary move in the trucking industry, the transport-technology company offers a unique platform that not only gives customers real-time tracking updates on cargo en-route, but it records the driver’s delivery feedback. Keeping tabs on how goods are handled by each customer’s supply chain and logistics departments, both before and after the goods get into the containers, CDL 1000 has one goal in mind. Their newly-innovated process uses technology to assure the long-awaited products reach their destination on time, safely and efficiently.

Real-time tracking and notifications are the next phase development, the platform offers a subscription for business customers for Real-time tracking updates to make their deliveries and pickups fast and on time. The customers receiving deliveries and pickups with live tracking services and notifications. The newly-innovated process uses technology to assure the long-awaited products reach their destination on time, safely and efficiently.

The dispatcher will receive real-time notifications for driver duty, delivery status and other updates. Notifications are receiving as a pop up on their delivery board. They will also receive real-time location updates on the board of an active driver. From this board, a dispatcher can access the route map view of all active deliveries from the dashboard. Here they can find all the active delivery details like the driver name, phone and vehicle number for quick analysis.

A driver mobile app will be developed as part of tracking the order pick-up and drop off locations. Real-time driver tracking is working based on the status updating and live location of the driver. The driver allows managing their orders through this platform. The driver can get proof of delivery as a mobile photo or signature. This can be shared with the dispatcher.

CDL1000’s main goal with this new platform is to make sure products reach their destination in a safe, efficient, and timely manner.

If you are in the lookout for creating a similar deliverable application for your company, avail free consultation from our technical team at iScripts by clicking here. You can also call us on 312-423-6728 or compose an email containing your business requirements and budget to sales@iscripts.com to receive the best digital solutions for your company.

Transmedia narrative application is the practice of designing, sharing, and participating in a cohesive story experience across multiple traditional and digital delivery platforms – for education, entertainment, advertising, and marketing, or social change, where video led the story and other media types like images, slides, readings, and web links carried the story deeper.

Narrasys is a cloud-based SaaS platform that dynamically combines virtually any digital object into new Narratives. A video and integrated media-centric communications and publishing platform, upgraded, commercialized, and launched the Narrative Platform in 2016, which consists of Narrative Producer (the cloud-based, integrated media storytelling authoring tools), Narrative Player (the integrated media player that launches from emails, websites, blogs, LMSs, MOOCs), and Narrative Editor (transmedia customization tools for instructors when Narrative Player is launched from an LMS). Narrasys blends together all forms of digital content into engaging Narratives that tell more in less time.

Narrasys (Narrative) Producer – Web-based, enterprise-level authoring tools used by Narrasys instructional designers and our clients instructional designers to author video and deep media narratives that can be published as open web links for mass communications, marketing, promotions or LTI links to be launched in a secure LMS like Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, D2L, Open Ed X etc. The producer is a video and deep media layout and publishing toolset.

Narrasys (Narrative) Player – Interactive video player that can be launched from a website, email, blog, learning management system. Three modes of viewing: Default video, transcript, and deep media assets coming up in time, Search Mode: creates a list, ebook view of the episode that can be sorted by time or type – makes video and deep media assets searchable, and Full Video mode – full-screen video.

Narrasys (Narrative) Editor  – When the NP is launched from an LTI compliant LMS it detects the user role. If the user has instructor privileges an “add” button appears in the player that enables an instructor to add real-time comments, images, weblinks, digital documents, polling questions, formative assessments to the Narrative. Students don’t see the “Add” button and don’t have this functionality. This enables and instructor to be able to customize a narrative real-time in their courses.

If you are in the lookout for creating a similar deliverable application for your company, avail free consultation from our technical team at iScripts by clicking here. You can also call us on 312-423-6728 or compose an email containing your business requirements and budget to sales@iscripts.com to receive the best digital solutions for your company.

iScripts has a different way of approach on customer requirements and their projects. We really understand the pain and effort of customers during the phases of developing a solution for their dream business. We treat our each account with utmost care by assigning dedicated developer with QA through out the project. Experienced project manager for each account keeps the project on track and make sure meeting the deadlines. While iScripts meet business requirements using the innovative scripts at very low cost, we do development services at nominal rates and at this time we’re proud to share the story of a project that we did for school domain where admin and users can do ad space management at most fast and smartest method.

8to18 Digital is a unique initiative by a team of professionals created with a vision of managing youth activities such as athletics in educational institutions such as schools or campuses for young talents aged between 8 and 18. To people who are not familiar with the terminology, let us first discuss what Sales Automation is all about. Sales automation is the process where the time-consuming and manual sales process are made to run smoothly with lesser labour and hence using the remaining for better and efficient services.

iScripts has been in the game of developing customized software products with the highest quality and services since 2013. The years of expertise has gained us a lot of new learning experiences every time we engage in a project. One such project was the development of the Sales Automation Tool or the SAT for 8to18 Digital. 8to18 Digital has been a consistent customer and contacted us to render them a customized software to manage their sales process which will result in better conversion rates and optimization of the outbound sales. This platform was created to sell advertising space across its web properties, IE; to sell the available ad inventory to local advertisers.

The SAT tool provides a unique opportunity for its users to utilize and capitalize the ability for the consumers namely, the parents and students, to work with local businesses for the betterment of themselves and the institution. The tool works in a very user-friendly way where the complete process just gets completed in thee simple steps. First, is to select the school/ educational institution, second is to pick the slot and lastly is to pay.

SAT users will have to log into the platform using their unique login credentials to gain complete access to different sales tools employed in SAT such as collaterals, forums, display of the available inventory within their territory and other useful tools. This tool helps in outlining a streamlined process that will provide integrated content and performance functions to be organized in a step-by-step flow. The purpose of this is to provide a very simple and easy-to-use order entry process to complete a transaction between the client payment and billing. The software enables third-party systems to access the inventories and book slots based on which it receives priority above the usual sales representatives.

The system was mainly formulated using the following languages: PHP(LAMP), MySQL, Apache, Linux and Angular JS. The mobile application devised is integrated with the following features: Adtech, Content Management, Ad API, CRM integration, Automated Work Flow, Document Management System, and Advertising and Marketing. The SAT eases the complete sales force process which on the other hand will help in improving the productivity with the effective use of human resources and other functionalities.
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