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Navis™ SPARCS N4 terminal operating system


SPARCS N4 Features

System Foundation

  • Highly scalable fault tolerant architecture
  • Multiple platform and database support
    • Deploy with leading commercial or open source databases and vendor agnostic infrastructure
  • Powerful and intuitive Rich Internet Client
    • No client software installation required
  • Configurable lists and filters
  • Context sensitive actions menus
  • Export data to Microsoft® Office
  • Powerful role and context based security model
  • Language localizable
  • Extended security for community users
  • Online context sensitive help
  • Context sensitive entity inspectors
    • Smart pop-ups for containers, vessels and trains
    • Instant access to all related functions
  • Powerful, flexible reporting
    • Automatically schedule and send reports to e-mail recipients
    • Configure, import and export report definitions
    • Support for multiple output formats
  • Container event notifications

Extended Security for Community Users

  • Online context sensitive help
  • Context sensitive entity inspectors
    • Smart pop-ups for containers, vessels and trains
    • Instant access to all related functions
  • Powerful, flexible reporting
    • Automatically schedule and send reports to e-mail recipients
    • Configure, import and export report definitions
    • Support for multiple output formats
  • Advanced notification engine
    • User definable notification events
    • Receive notifications by Email or SMS
    • Automatically selects desired party for notification

System Deployment Options

  • Internet access via rich application client
  • Multi-Facility
  • Configure business rules across multiple terminals within a specific geographic region for improved operational control, coordination and efficiency
  • Multi-Complex
    • Configure and manage multiple terminals for increased deployment, administrative and operational savings along with full multi-terminal operational visibility and control
    • Global visibility and management
    • Manage disparate facilities regionally or globally
  • Clustering for scalability, redundancy and reliability

Standard Options

  • Bills of Lading
  • Detailed bills of lading and hold management
  • Gate
    • Appointments to better manage gate peaks and troughs
    • Configurable user interface and business rules
    • Integrated Trouble Desk
    • Equipment Pooling integration
    • SDKs for extending and customizing
  • Bookings
    • Export bookings, rail based bookings and equipment delivery orders
    • Detailed booking history
  • Vessel
    • Flexible vessel schedule and service rotations
    • Line Sharing
    • Capture vessel performance and statistics
    • Configurable vessel services, permissions and holds
    • Record load and discharge moves
  • Rail
    • Flexible schedule and service rotations
    • Record load and discharge moves
    • Define rail car types and associated constraints
  • Advanced Events and Holds
    • Define events, holds, permissions and rules
    • Apply events, holds and permissions to operational entities
    • Configurable data capture requirements
    • Configurable automatic updates of associated fields
    • Advanced notification engine using event and filter based criteria with automatic selection of recipients
    • Customer controlled customization with the ability to embed source code at specific event based trigger points and specific gate processe

EDI

  • Multi-stage transformation, processing and transmission
  • Communication options including FTP, SFTP, email, and Web Services
  • Support yard, gate, vessel and rail operations
  • Interactive map designer for handling new message types
  • Configurable filtering and posting rules based on current state of data, source and destination criteria
  • Transformation Designer
    • Interactive designer, create maps and dictionaries for new message types

Facility Planning and Control

  • Yard Planning and Control
    • Detailed yard model and real-time views
    • Configurable color palettes and filtering
    • Instant information pop-ups and utilization reporting
    • Flexible allocations, status modeling and notes
    • Automated real-time position assignment
    • Automated tracking and notification of planning errors
    • Automated key slot creation and overflow processing
  • Vessel Planning and Control
    • Detailed vessel definition and real-time views
    • Configurable color palettes and filtering
    • Instant information pop-ups
    • Assisted selection, sequencing and re-sequencing tools
    • Advanced stowage validation
    • Real-time tracking of plan execution
    • High quality and configurable output
  • Rail Planning and Control
    • Train schedule
    • Inbound and outbound rail planning and consists
    • Rail car constraint validation for optimal rail planning processes
    • Assisted selection, sequencing and re-sequencing tools
    • Real-time tracking of plan execution
  • Equipment Control
    • Equipment capability and deployment modeling
    • Point-and-click dispatch with validation
    • Detailed equipment performance reports
    • Instant information pop-ups

Advanced Vessel Operations

  • Advanced Vessel
    • Graphical crane sequence planning and berth scheduling
    • Integrated crane shift assignment management
  • Hazardous checking by class and UN
  • Stability and lashing
  • AutoStow, automated and optimized vessel planning

Advanced Optimization

  • Expert Decking
    • Automated and optimized yard planning
    • Configurable yard planning strategies
    • Equipment congestion and availability consideration
  • PrimeRoute for Straddle Carriers
    • Automated and optimized dispatch
    • Pool across multiple diverse operations
    • Schedule based dispatching
  • PrimeRoute for Terminal Tractors
    • Automated and optimized dispatch
    • Pool across multiple diverse operations
    • Schedule based dispatching
  • Twin-lift for Straddle Carriers

Radio Data Terminal Execution

  • Radio Data Terminal Foundation
  • Real-time monitoring and management of all equipment
  • Screen layouts based on device capabilities
  • User selectable language
    • Inventory of wheeled and grounded yard areas
    • Recording of container seal numbers and damages
    • Management of quay side and rail operations
  • Radio Data Terminal Refrigerated Cargo Management
    • Automated connection work list and monitoring

Monitor

  • Automatic, just-in-time data updates
  • Graphical gauges with configurable thresholds
  • Sparklines and charts to track recent trends
  • Out-of-the-box metrics, gadgets, charts, and tables for vessel, crane, and yard

Radio Data Terminal Execution

  • Radio Data Terminal Foundation
    • Real-time monitoring and management of all equipment
    • Screen layouts based on device capabilities
    • User selectable language
    • Inventory of grounded yard areas
    • Recording of container seal numbers and damages
    • Management of quay side and rail operations
  • Refrigerated Cargo Management
    • Automated connection work list and monitoring
  • Truck Control Management

SDKs

  • Gate infrastructure integration web services
  • SNX - Reading and updating of reference and real-time operational data
  • Inventory - Reading and updating of container data and associated holds and permissions
  • Automated reefer monitoring

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