In the forwarding business, the practice of operating an own fleet or a rented means of transport (railway carriages, road vehicles and containers) has been disseminated markedly. These vehicles are utilized for transport within the framework of the owner's own business as well as for leasing to other subjects.

The system NEWSPED developed by the company JERID has been designed to meet the needs of such companies and has been, thus, extended by a Utilization module for means of transport. The principal function of this module is a register of means of transport in a catalogue form. Each vehicle listed in the catalogue is accomplished with its technical data, rental information and information on its contingent lease, shipments carried out within the vehicle, movement history, and a list of cyclical repairs and their current conditions. By opening the catalogue, we are provided with on-line information on the facts whether the carriage is available, which logistic operation is being carried out within the carriage and a reminder on the pending date of a cyclic repair.

The module is fully integrated into the rest of the system, especially to the modules Invoicing and Despatch, and it can generate expected cumulative rental costs for an arbitrary period with the view of checking the in-coming invoices or creation of conjectural items, etc. Analogically, cumulative generation of rental ready-to-be-invoiced revenues is supported by utilizing this module.

There is available a fundamental set of reports analyzing the economy of renting and leasing the given vehicles. Reports can be adjusted according to specific requirements of a customer.

Forwarding companies extend their portfolio of services provided by warehousing services for their customers. The support of such activities is ensured through a new Warehouses module, which offers basic a register of warehouses, goods on stock and goods flow with a link to despatch (stock receipt from a vehicle, stock release onto a vehicle, detecting "goods in transit" within detection of available goods, etc.).

The Warehouses module generates, in the event of warehouse movements, appropriate documents - receipt cards, stock release notes and transfer cards. A one-step or two-step system of stock receipt or stock release can be applied. It is also possible to pre-set a preferred strategy of stock release procedure, LIFO, FIFO and random selection.

Further on, the module can be adjusted in terms of automatic generation of costs and revenues associated with stock operations where each material in stock has its own individual charges for particular operations. Costs can be tallied with in-coming invoices and revenues for warehousing services can be invoiced directly. Again, there is at disposal a fundamental set of reports - surveys, forms of stock level, stock movements, storing charges, stock turnover, etc., which can be adjusted according to the specific requirements of a customer.

The Warehouses module registers only the quantity flow within a stock and it is assumed that financial flow associated with the price of material in stock shall be generated in an ancillary accounting system, if necessary.