METHOD OF FINALIZING AN AIR WAYBILL AT THE TIME OF ALLOTMENT BOOKING USING A LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (LMS)

• US 20160140495A1
• Filed: 11/17/2014
• Published: 05/19/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/17/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Unisys Corporation
• Original Assignee: Unisys Corporation
• Inventors: Dohm, Susan M., Jancik, JoAnn E., Loebertmann, William A., Hoffman, Kenneth L.
• Granted Patent: US 10,860,974 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0835 Relationships between shipper or supplier and carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0283 Price estimation or determination

Abstract

A logistics management system (LMS) may include receiving, at a server, a reservation request from a requestor for a booking on an air carrier'"'"'s cargo hold for a designated route; validating, by the server, an availability of the requested booking with the air carrier; generating, by the server, a price quote for the booking; communicating, by the server, the price quote to the requestor; and receiving, by the server, an acceptance of the price and terms from the requestor to form commercial terms for the booking.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving, at a server, a reservation request from a requestor for a booking on an air carrier'"'"'s cargo hold for a designated route;

validating, by the server, an availability of the requested booking with the air carrier;

generating, by the server, a price quote for the booking;

communicating, by the server, the price quote to the requestor; and

receiving, by the server, an acceptance of the price and terms from the requestor to form commercial terms for the booking.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising tracking, by the server, requests to change the booking.

3. The method of claim 1, in which the server comprises a logistics management system (LMS).

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising restricting acceptance of incoming external message requests to update only the non-commercial terms.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising capturing shipment data for the requested booking after receiving the acceptance of the price and terms, in which the incoming external message requests are saved to update only the non-commercial terms.

6. The method of claim 1, in which the step of generating the price quote is performed by applying at least one of an applicable contract, a market rates, or a tariff rate.

7. A computer program product, comprising:

a non-transitory computer readable medium comprising;

code to receive a reservation request from a requestor for a booking on an air carrier'"'"'s cargo hold for a designated route;

code to validate an availability of the requested booking with the air carrier;

code to generate a price quote for the booking;

code to communicate the price quote to the requestor; and

code to receive acceptance of the price and terms from the requestor to form commercial terms for the booking.

8. The computer program product of claim 7, in which the medium further comprises code to track requests to change the booking.

9. The computer program product of claim 7, in which the price quote is generated with a logistics management system (LMS).

10. The computer program product of claim 7, in which the medium further comprises code to restrict acceptance of incoming external message requests to update only the non-commercial terms.

11. The computer program product of claim 10, in which the medium further comprises:

code to capture the shipment data information; and

code to capture the incoming external message requests are saved to update only the non-commercial terms.

12. The computer program product of claim 7, in which the code for generating a price quote comprises code to apply at least one of an applicable contract, a market rates, or a tariff rate.

13. A system, comprising:

a memory and at least one processor, in which the at least one processor is coupled to the memory and the at least one processor is configured;

to receive a reservation request from a requestor for a booking on an air carrier'"'"'s cargo hold for a designated route;

to validate an availability of the booking with the air carrier;

to generate a price quote for the booking;

to communicate the generated price quote to the requestor; and

to receive acceptance of the price and terms from the requestor to form commercial terms for the booking.

14. The system of claim 13, in which the at least one processor is further configured to track requests to change the booking.

15. The system of claim 13, in which the at least one processor is further configured to restrict acceptance of incoming external message requests to updating non-commercial terms.

16. The system of claim 15, in which the processor is further configured:

to capture the shipment data information; and

to capture incoming external message requests as a to update only the non-commercial terms.

17. The system of claim 13, in which the generation of a price quote is performed by applying any applicable contracts, market rates, or tariff rates.