SmartWay: The most flexible slot booking system

Insight into your transport flows

With SmartWay, you have the visibility on the arrival and departure times of trucks, and you can:

• Schedule your resources efficiently
  
  
• Control your stock levels
  
  
• Prevent overcrowded parking areas
  
  
• Reduce safety risks and the cost of waiting time
  
  
• Avoid peak and idle times
  
  
• Keep your customer satisfied with a high level of scheduling reliability

Easily adaptable to all your wishes

Thanks to our experience and transport mentality, SmartWay is a unique system with which you can: 

• Add carriers and sites easily
  
  
• Set up schedules or reschedule slots
  
  
• Customize you site overviews
  
  
• Support customs activities, such as uploading customs documents
  
  
• Link to other systems
  
  
• Report on Health & Safety incidents

Clear and real-time reports

We believe reports should be clean and concise for actionable insights. Our reports are unique due to:

• Direct usage insights of your docks
  
  
• Overview of the utilisation of slots
  
  
• Real-time arrival status of carrier
  
  
• Clear information about the performance of the carriers
  
  
• Possibilities for analysing the fluctuations in volume
  
  
• Performance summary per site

Frequently asked questions

What is SmartWay Slot Booking?

SmartWay Slot Booking is a transport planning tool focused on the loading and unloading operations on your sites. 

SmartWay Slot booking is cloud-based and provided as a software-as-a-service (SaaS). Therefore, you don't have to worry about installing applications or software on devices. 

Users, like planners and carriers, have web access and log on to the online platform to access, plan and share relevant data and business processes directly.

Frequently asked questions

Why is SmartWay developed?

Many 4PL customers expressed their frustration with the rigidity of other time slot management software and their reliance on slot booking providers. 

So, our experts developed a cloud-based slot booking system with an intuitive, straightforward interface based on extensive experience in the transport business. 

SmartWay SlotBooking is easily adaptable to your wishes, so you are in full control of your site planning.

Frequently asked questions

Is a slot booking system sustainable?

Yes, it is!

With a system like SmartWay, you can efficiently manage your traffic and resources on sites. This brings financial savings and CO2 reduction.

1. Less unnecessary idle running because:
   1. reduced congestion on entering and leaving your sites;
   2. reduced total turnaround times for (un)loading;
2. Better utilization of assets, people and equipment reduces the idle time of trucks;
3. Consolidating multiple orders in one time-slot allows smart utilization of loading capacity and, therefore, reduces unnecessary trips.