The international freight forwarding industry has seen unprecedented changes and challenges in the past decades owing to the geographical spread of the twentieth century supply chains and escalated pressure of cost reduction from their customers. The consolidation efforts in the logistics industry, global business partnerships, improved customer service and E2E visibility requirements have all rendered a whole new meaning to freight management in today's world.

With spiraling fuel costs, new transit regulations, global scale of operations and outsourcing agreements, the international freight forwarding community is experiencing escalated levels of customer expectations. Increasing complexity of customer orders, involving pick up at different geographical locations, en-route consolidations, packaging and forwarding through multi modal delivery routes to different countries and to different end customers has now become a normal business process.

All this and the demand for increased economies of scale in business have prompted the freight forwarding community in embracing technology as never before. With escalating IT budgets, the transport management industry is experiencing a paradigm shift in their IT focus areas, from 'Technology supported' operational packages to 'technology driven' enterprise wide product suites. Order to cash flows, E2E visibility, track and trace, interface capabilities with external systems and industry portals, CRM modules etc., are now 'must have' requirements to support the complex and varied requirements of international customers.

In response to the increased demands from the international freight forwarding community, Four Soft has launched its flag ship, web based, transport management system,   Designed and developed on modern technology, 4S eTrans is a multi modal transport management system with built in accounting and external interfaces, to meet and exceed the present day requirements and the future challenges of the International freight forwarding community.