ABSTRACT E-FREIGHT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

M.Pranathi (08BK1A0549) M.Sindhura (08BK1A0558) R.Swetha (08BK1A0575) Computer Science and Engineering, St.Peters Engineering College, JNTU-H

B.V Seshu Kumari Associate Professor, CSE Department, St.Peters Engineering College,JNTU-H

Introduction
GO KART, a courier and freight management company seeks to make their pickup scheduling and shipment tracking services online. The module being proposed will be a part of courier system and can be accessed from companys website. Using Freight Management System business reaches out to remote areas, provides pickup from doorstep, a facility that is just an online request away, customer can schedule a pickup and track it too from e-FMS. The scheduling form lets the user enter the number of packets, address to be picked up from, time window and the destination address. The user will not get any updates regarding the shipment tracking. It will be difficult to trace the lost packets and consumes more time to deliver at the customers side.

Proposed Solution
In order to overcome these problems an online application is being developed with the following tasks: An online application which schedules a list of pickup locations. List of pickup locations are displayed from which the user can select. The rates as per weight and destinations are to maintained for users reference.

Problem Statement
Existing System is a manual system where the following tasks have to be done manually. Schedule a pickup of shipment from a list of location serviced by GO KART. Maintain a list of pickup locations from which the users can select.

The pickup and cash payment happens offline. Offline activity includes weighting of the shipment, checking of packing material. The cost arrived at can be verified online. The temporary number is assigned to the shipment which can be used to link to the actual tracking number. The user gets an email for the shipment processing and the actual tracking number. The application will be able to generate a statement of pickups during a day or selected period, displaying total amount of cash collected.

IT Administrator: IT Administrator is a person employed to maintain and operate a computer system and/or network. The duties of IT Admin are wide ranging and vary widely from one organization to another. IT Admins are usually charged with installing, supportng and maintaining servers or other computer system.

Application development environment

OS: windows xp or later DBServer: IBM DB2

system

Modules Involved:
There are three modules in this system.

IDE: RAD (Rational Application Developer) Server:IBM@websphere Application server Tools: RSA 7.5

Web users Employees of the company with a valid user id and password on Intranet IT Administrator

System Requirements
Hard Disk: Pc with 20GB. RAM: 2GB or more Processor: Intel Pentium or later.

Web User: In this module the customer can make an online request on e-FMS.Each customer can create their accounts and request for pick up of goods at the doorstep by giving the address and other required details. They can also track their goods from their accounts. Employees of Company: Each employee of the company is provided with a unique user id and password through which they can access their accounts and manage the deliveries and orders.