The new N4CL Portal, which was launched in August 2009 will be spearheading the integration of freight forwarding partnerships between the emerging and developed markets. With increasing membership in our to be expected rapidly expanding footprint, we feel the need to bring advanced technology into the Network so that members can effective reach-and-touch their counterparts on a 24x7 basis.
Message from the coorperate management of N4CL...
“We will differentiate from our competitors by
Expect a unique and powerful atmosphere of interchange as the key to your success.
Our primary target is to connect small and middle sized logistic companies world wide with each other on one flexible process supporting platform.
We are setting up the standard for the forwarding community which the big global players will emulate.
Communication and “just-in-time” information will be provided enabling our members to be prepared for the global competition, every day…
Our planed conferences will be a hot spot for our members to present their company in a direct face to face way to all members.
By this connect to dedicated partners for their day to day business.
Find access to the local specialist anywhere on the planet to offer your customer an outstanding quality of service to meet their requriements.“
Actually we are building one of the few truly sustainable global networks headding to be the the platform to connect smal logistic companies in large countries with large logistic companies in small countries and reverse. We are introducing trust rankings and process support in order to increase security and efficiency of your business. This platform is designed to comunicate and work in order to increase your business and commercial relations.
We offer:
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A secure portal for intermodal communications and document workflow
Screening of ranking of new forwarder membership applications
Secure communications across all channels of our community
A premium membership facility devoted to addressing issues faced by the Forwarder Community
A full government and customs policy research forum with breaking news alerts
Instant messaging and email across member partners
Advertising and promotion oppportunities for members
An advanced bidding and quotation platform
Just-in-time and Available to Promise optimizers for Premium Forwarders
Road/Rail/Sea/Air Intermodal community connections
Reliable and Attentive help desks working 24x7 across all time zones
A fully redundant and secure database hosting environment
Forums to discuss and highlight your key issues
Annual Conferences
The N4CL Portal 2.0 will provide a unified and easy-to-use framework for delivering content for websites of all kinds. To support the changing nature of the internet and emerging web technologies, N4CL Portal 2.0 required substantial restructuring of its core functionality and we also used this effort to simplify many challenges within the current user interface. N4CL Portal 2.0 has many new features.
The goals for the N4CL Portal 2.0 release are to:
Substantially improve usability, manageability, and scalability far beyond the original Glofreight foundations.
Expand accessibility to support internationalisation, double-byte characters and Right-to-Left support for Chinese, Arabic and Hebrew languages.
Extend the integration of external applications through Web Services and remote authentication such as the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).
Enhance the content delivery, template and presentation capabilities to support accessibility standards and content delivery to any destination.
Achieve a more sustainable and flexible framework for component and extension developers.
Deliver backwards compatibility with previous releases of components, templates, modules and other extensions.
N4CL Network is always the best choice – for logistics providers like yourself
Today, companies are facing greater competitive pressure than ever before, and they need to gear their value added networks towards the international market and continuously optimize these networks.
The emerging markets in Europe and Asia are playing an increasingly important role, particularly in connection with the ongoing optimization of the supplier portfolio with the aim of generating cost benefits. Not all companies achieve the goals they set out to achieve in emerging markets; above all, they often unable to cut costs to the desired degree.
This is the starting point for a membership into a good link worldwide – the N4CL Network – a network in the middle of Emerging markets.
The network service that our experts provide ensure that you can respond faster and more flexibly to urgent requests, by the growing importance of purchasing and procurement in the internationalization strategies of modern companies. The relocation of existing and the creation of new value added structures in emerging markets is a common occurrence today. Companies who want to be competitive in the future are already thinking not only about the optimum location of logistics and production facilities but also taking an in-depth look at the options for the creation of a supplier base in emerging markets. While production managers are planning new plants in China and logistic experts are integrating new locations in existing networks, buyers are today working on the development of supplier structures to support their production operations in emerging markets.
As a result, the purchasing, production and logistics functions are more closely interconnected than ever before. The different conditions and cultural barriers in emerging markets make this process more complicated than it would otherwise be. At the same time, the meaningful deployment of methods and strategies in dealings with suppliers in emerging markets represents a major challenge for many companies. Moreover, many companies fail in their efforts due to unsuitable conditions within their own organisation.
The N4CL Network has an incentive to choose this as a starting point, as it provides the association with an opportunity to analyse the existing situation and then to draw up recommendations for action to support the internationalization efforts of companies through its partner network.
((Allow us to identify differences between the strategies of European companies on the one hand and Asian companies on the other. ))
Count on a reliable partner – N4CL Network this is where you are supplied with our network solutions for logistical challenges – quickly and reliably.
Nation-wide, Continent-wide and World-wide.
The experts network for logistics.