ERP Services

ShipNet provides Maritime Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software that delivers end to end solutions aimed at assisting shipping companies perform profitably in a dynamic economic environment.

It is a fully integrated suite of packages capturing where costs and revenue exist in an operation and hooking this data into a finance and accountancy package that is optimised for the maritime industry. This helps organisations make the most of their assets and critically their information landscape, using them to make the right decisions in the operation of their fleets.

There are four key strands to the ShipNet offering.

Chartering and Operations

ShipNet provides a full voyage estimation and operation system, allowing easy analysis of different time and spot charter scenarios, voyage planning, and subsequent voyage management through position book maintenance and tracking situation on a day to day basis, allowing for calculation of demurrage and dispatch. This is linked in to a disbursement management system supporting the financial resolution of a charter.

Accounting and Financial Management

ShipNet’s financial package provides a clear view of assets and liabilities and overall financial performance with toolsets for accounting, budgeting, asset management, and reporting. All of this is integrated with both the Chartering and Operation system and the ShipNet Technical Management package to consolidate information and ensure the CFO has all the required data to run a business successfully and profitably.

Technical Management

ShipNet provides a complete shipboard management system which is certified by major classification societies, allowing easy demonstration of compliance. The package includes modules covering Planned Maintenance, Spare Parts Management, Document Management, Safety Occurrence Management, and Crewing solutions. One of the key advantages of the ShipNet application is the replication of data between vessel and shore, ensuring that a consolidated picture of happenings across the fleet is achieved. A key part of this solution is a procurement system integrated into major eMarketplaces for spare parts, which enables tight control of spare parts ordering with consequent cost control.

Information Services

ShipNet allows users to store and query a vast warehouse of data connected with their own operations. We are increasingly providing industry wide datasets that place company specific information in context. This ranges from an off the shelf collection of berth restriction data for wet cargo ports, supporting customers vetting activities, through to datasets covering port cost information and key performance indicators for typical operations involved in a port call.

Future Direction - In the short term ShipNet is enhancing its current offering with a particular focus on providing Business Intelligence toolsets that surface business critical Key Performance Indicators across all product streams. This will allow users to easily extract value from the underlying information generated by their operation and help them make better decisions in operating their fleets.

In terms of specific near term developments we are enhancing the Chartering and Operations package by enhancing the Voyage Estimator to support features such as dynamic route planning and distance calculation with drag-and-drop routing, and overall task management allowing for the allocation of tasks to individuals in the team and providing alerting when they need to be completed, ensuring process is followed properly.

This is of relevance in terms of allowing shipping companies to increasingly outsource the overhead associated with running and maintaining ERP software solutions and focusing instead on core operations. This will benefit large organisations by streamlining the task of keeping a large installed base up-to-date, and also, by making ShipNet ERP solutions accessible as a service over the web, make them increasingly relevant to the small-medium shipping company for whom ERP has historically been too expensive or too large an undertaking to install. This process will also see a change in the underlying programming structure, with applications becoming much more modular, with specific elements of the application addressing different parts of an organisation’s business process. This will make for a much more streamlined and scalable system that can grow and contract in line with how much an organisation needs to use it. As these systems will be closely tied to the way in which organisations work overall intuitiveness and usability will be enhanced.

Further information can be found on the ShipNet website or by contacting a local office