Get your business information to work harder

Are you failing to sweat one of your most valuable assets?

Information is one of the most important resources owned by any business. Yet, some tanker businesses are held back by failing to sweat this most valuable of assets.

Rapid access to the most up-to-date information gives us the ability to make better decisions with confidence. In an operating environment that is subject to sudden shocks resulting from rapid and unpredictable change, this is a necessity.

Mastering how you use information lets you operate with far greater efficiency, allowing you to make hard and fast decisions with greater certainty and more confidence.

Here are three ways that you work smarter and increase efficiency by using Q88VMS to manage the information essential for running your tanker operations.

1. Optimize tanker fleet operations

The administrative processes that underpin tanker operations are supported by data intensive processes. But many shipping companies continue to lag behind the curve when it comes to using information to maximize efficiency.

A good technology platform lets you make better use of the complex information and to achieve better control over the many moving parts which govern tanker ops.  Basically, you make decisions that enable you to optimize your operations and make them with greater confidence – call the shots better and faster with Q88VMS.

2. Streamline administrative tasks

There’s a considerable amount of on-shore paperwork needed to support tanker ops at sea. However, many shipping companies continue to make harder work of it than they need to! Manual processes are labour intensive. By using outdated methods or legacy systems, some teams responsible for tanker operations are wasting an awful lot of time.

A good technology platform enables you to simplify and streamline administrative working practices. The best technologies accelerate processes and eliminate inefficiency. Prevent time going to waste searching through paper looking for data or hunting down people with the right information. Essentially, your shore-based teams improve productivity – get more done, faster with Q88VMS.

3. Centralize and automate in the cloud

Few businesses are as ‘global’ as the tanker industry. With high-value assets and cargoes in constant motion worldwide, your teams are dispersed far and wide on the high seas or across the global hubs of tanker operations. Why are many still using disconnected systems to manage their tanker fleets?

A good technology platform centralizes data, allowing everyone to work with the same information in real time, avoiding delays and creating certainty. Automation eliminates tedious manual processes like invoicing and credit control. Invoices are 100% accurate and raised in seconds; payment tracking alerts to outstanding invoices and lets you take control of aged debt. Quite simply, your people connect and collaborate very efficiently – teams work better together, anytime, anywhere on mobile with Q88VMS.

One of the best decisions you’ll ever make

Information is complex. Information must be error-free. Information needs to be at your fingertips.

Q88VMS is a modular system that centralizes your data in the cloud and wraps it with a comprehensive set of tools in the cloud, enabling you to do a better job of running your tanker fleet:

• Open Positions – Overview of cargo discharge and availability to take on new loads

• Estimates – Calculator for reckoning the financials of each voyage

• Voyages – Provides Financial Management for new business and Account Management functions to manage voyages

• Invoices – Tracks invoices and balances and part payments, compliant with accounting standards and bespoke integration with standard accounting systems

• Email – Integrate with operational email Inbox – one-click functionality to automatically go from an email to the info for each numbered voyage

• Reports – Powerful analytics – with Q88VMS it takes 30 seconds to do what takes half a day with Excel or half-an-hour with a comparable system

Q88VMS pays for itself quickly. Across your fleet, annual costs for each vessel break down into a per day rate that makes financial sense. Choosing Q88VMS is one of the smartest decisions you’ll ever make.