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Sector · Freight forwarding

“When shipment volumes go up, our invoicing cannot keep pace any more, and we lose early payment discounts.”

DMS for freight forwarding: Invoice more shipments without growing your back office

CMR consignment notes, waybills, customs documents, proofs of delivery and incoming invoices arrive today from three countries in five formats. OXS.eco brings them together in one place and assigns them to the shipment file automatically and keeps every supporting document easy to retrieve for customer invoicing and claims. Shipment volumes can grow without invoicing becoming the bottleneck. For mid-sized freight forwarders, rolled out step by step with personal support.

Shorten the invoicing cycleFreight orders, dispatch paperwork, CMR and transport invoices in one pipeline. Invoicing starts as soon as the documents are in the shipment file.
CMR & waybills on mobilePhoto of the document straight into the shipment file, also for transports across several sites.
Customs and export ready for auditExport declarations archived aligned with GoBD, prepared for customs audits with a filter query.
Freight forwarding
Hamburg DE Salzburg Border Milan IT SHIPMENT 4711 Hamburg → Milan ○ CMR ✓ CMR DE ○ Customs ✓ Customs AT/IT ○ POD ✓ POD IT 0 / 3 1 / 3 2 / 3 3 / 3 ✓ complete CMR CMR CUSTOMS DE CUSTOMS POD POD ✓ 1 shipment ✓ 3 countries ✓ 1 case file
Two people handing over a clipboard with a freight document at a loading dock in front of an open truck trailer loaded with pallets
Handover at the dock: this is where the documents are created that later have to live on digitally.
On the loading dock

Freight papers are created outside, and they have to be processed inside

CMR notes, proof-of-delivery receipts and customs documents are handed over in the yard, and hours later they already need to be at hand in the back office for billing. OXS.eco keeps the path from the clipboard into the DMS as short as possible.

  • Mobile capture via app: photo of the document, automatic assignment to the shipment
  • Customs and export documents archived in line with GoBD. Audit trail included
  • Proof-of-delivery receipts available at any time as evidence for complaints, without digging through a file binder
Pain points

Four things we hear from dispatch and back office every day

Chances are one or more of them sound familiar.

“The CMR waybill is often missing when the invoice arrives. We call around our colleagues to find it.”

“We assign customs documents such as export accompanying documents to every shipment case by hand.”

“PODs sit as photos in the dispatch team's WhatsApp. Once a complaint comes in, nobody can find them.”

“Freight settlements are reconciled with order data by hand for days.”

Use Cases

Concrete document processes in freight forwarding

From delivery to customs inspection: OXS.eco measurably speeds up document processing.

1

Digital CMR waybill workflow

Problem

Drivers often bring paper CMRs into the office only days later. When complaints or liability claims come up, the documents are missing at the decisive moment.

Solution

OXS.eye scans the CMR right at delivery, with OCR-based transfer into the DMS and linking to order, shipment and invoice.

Result
Directly

in the system after delivery, instead of days later through a paper return run.

Capture CMRs on mobile? OXS.eye enables mobile CMR capture right at delivery, matched by reference to the right order and filed straight into the DMS.
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2

Automated customs & export documentation

Problem

Export declarations, certificates of origin and preference documents have to be archived manually and kept retrievable for years.

Solution

Automatic classification of incoming customs documents, archiving aligned with GoBD with full traceability, and full-text search by customs tariff number.

Result
Complete

customs documents verifiable in the archive. Preparation for customs audits (Zollbetriebsprüfung) without manual searching.

3

Freight forwarding invoice approval with a multi-site workflow

Problem

Incoming invoices from subcontractors, port operators and service providers arrive from everywhere and have to be approved across sites.

Solution

Central accounts payable, automatic cost center assignment, a digital approval workflow with escalation, and complete archiving.

Result
Noticeably

less processing time. Early payment discount deadlines met reliably (based on experience).

Document types

Document types that count every day in logistics and freight forwarding

OXS.eco supports document-heavy processes in which delivery notes, CMR waybills, pallet notes, weighing slips and proof-of-delivery receipts have to be quick to find, assign and check.

Experience from logistics projects shows that what matters is not just archiving, but assigning documents quickly to the right case.

Integrations & interfaces

Connectable to your TMS, customs system and ERP

We connect your TMS, customs system and ERP through open interfaces, on a project basis on request. CMR and customs documents are matched by reference to the right shipment case, and subcontractor invoices are approved digitally by your team across sites.

Systems in this industry Soloplan CarLo TIA Active Logistics Diamant/4 MWare Cepra ANAXCO D ATLAS / customs DATEV EDI / EDIFACT XRechnung / ZUGFeRD / Peppol REST API Diamant, MWare, Cepra and ANAXCO D are connected in production and highlighted here. Other systems we connect on a project basis, via the documented REST API or file-based transfer such as SFTP, including systems not listed here. XRechnung, ZUGFeRD, PEPPOL and EDI are processed directly by OXS.eco.
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Paper CMR notes by scan or phone photo, and national consignment notes. The recognition learns your document formats from the corrections your team makes.

Drivers photograph the proof of delivery with the OXS.eye app after dropping off. Reference matching assigns the image to the order and it lands straight in the consignment file.

Dangerous goods documents get their own document type with additional mandatory fields (UN number, class, packing group). Retention follows the German dangerous goods regulation.

Certificates of origin, export declarations and CMR notes sit in one file per order, archived aligned with GoBD. Filtered queries and an export for auditors are standard.

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Hélène TinetInitial call, demo & onboarding

Next step

See your freight forwarding process in the demo.

We walk through CMR capture, POD routing and the customs archive using your own use case. A 15-minute process check with a person from the MAAS team.

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