The acronym OMS stands for Order Management System, that is, management of orders and services. It includes phases such as capture, validation, evaluation, load formation, and generation of separation map, also known as separation list.
In validation and evaluation phases, product stock, customers' credit, standard delivery terms, etc. are checked.
In summary, the Order Management System module offers:
Concepts
Some complementary basic concepts are displayed, showing the peculiar features and functionalities of Order Management System, as well as some expressions concerning distribution and logistics, mentioned and estimated in the procedures.
Zone | Region logically delimited, which includes a set of customers and it is generally associated with a specific sales representative. In this case, it represents the universe of customers served by the respective sales representative. |
Sector | Zone subdivision, in which customers are associated to it. Thus, the set of associated sectors creates a zone. |
Route | Sequential grouping of Zones, comprising a delivery route for customers. |
Load | Set of volume that has stock control and is distributed to customers. |
Spread | Expression of maritime transportation that means "water placed in the holds to balance the ship" when there is no load. |
Transportation Time | Period between the date of material request and the arrival of this material at requester's. |
Transhipment | Pass goods or products from a transportation vehicle to another one. |
Laws of Cargo Transportation
Road transport has a specific law, which determines the necessary provisions. The law no. 6,813, from July 10th, 1980, provides:
“National Congress decrees the following law and I sanction it :
Article 1: Road transport can only be explored by Brazilian freelance carrier, or by other people equated with them by law or convention, and by legal entities that have:
I - head office in Brazil,
II - at least four fifths (4/5) of voting capital that belongs to Brazilians, and
III - direction and management exclusively by Brazilians.
Paragraph 1. If there is foreign partner, the legal entity mentioned in this ARTICLE is compulsorily organized as a corporation with its capital stock represented by regulatory actions.
Paragraph 2. If the previous paragraph occurs, by-laws cannot comprise any special treatment to the foreign partner, except the regular warranties established in the law for protection of minority stockholders' interest.
Paragraph 3. What is provided in ARTICLE is not applied to legal entities that had been exploring road transport when this Law was published. Thus, they must pay four fifths (4/5) of future increases in capital stock with Brazilian subscribers.
Paragraph 4. Obligatoriness mentioned in the previous paragraph is discarded in case of increases concerning capital monetary correction or due to capital increase with reserves and profits (vetoed).
Article 2: Regarding international transport between Brazil and countries with connected roads, reciprocal rights ensured in bilateral or multilateral agreements made by the Brazilian Government are excepted.
Article 3: Provisions of this law are not applied to the transportation of owned load.
Article 4: This law becomes effective in its publishing date.
Article 5: Opposed provisions are repealed."
Law of Goods and Cargo Units
Cargo transportation has a specific law, which determines use, movement, and transport, including intermodal of goods in cargo units. The law no. 6,288, from December 11th, 1975, provides:
Note: Below there is only a part of the law.
“The President of Brazil.
National Congress decrees the following law and I sanction it :
Article 1: International or national transportation of goods is regulated by the following law when it is made in cargo units:
Concerning the Cargo unitized and Cargo Units
Article 2: To make this Law effective, consider:
I - Cargo Unitized: one or more volumes packed in a cargo unit.
II - Cargo Unit: transportation equipment adequate for unitizing of goods to be transported, which can be handled, during the course and in all means of transportation used.
Sole Paragraph. «Containers» in general «pallets», pre-sling, and any other transportation equipment that meet the purposes mentioned above and that are defined in the rule are considered cargo units.
Concerning «Container»
Article 3: «Container» does not consist in goods package. It is always considered the equipment or accessory of carrier vehicle.
Sole Paragraph. The concept of «container» does not comprise vehicles, accessories or parts of vehicles and packages. It comprises «trailers», «bogies», «racks», or shelves, sheds and modules, as long as they are used as part of the «container»....
Concerning Transportation Modes
Article 6: National or domestic transportation is that one in which shipping and destination places of goods are inside Brazil.
Article 7: International transportation is that one in which shipping and destination places of goods are in different countries.
Article 8: Concerning the mode, transportation can be:
I - Modal: When goods are transported by using only a means of transportation.
II - Segmented: When different vehicles are used and several services and different carriers, which are responsible for taking goods from the shipping department to the final destination, are contracted separately.
III - Successive: When goods must be transported in a vehicle of the same transportation mode in order to arrive in the final destination.
IV - Intermodal: When goods are transported by using two or more transportation modes.
Sole Paragraph. Pick-up and movement of goods for unitizing as well as operations after delivery in the destination place established in the transport contract do not characterize intermodal transportation and they are not part of it.
Art. 10. Transportation in «container» in the whole national territory, empty or with national or foreign goods, can only be made by Brazilian companies of road, rail, air, or maritime transportation, as defined in article 9.
Sole Paragraph. Carrier companies are responsible for security provision, inviolability of seals, stamps, and signets as well as for goods in the «container» during the period in which transportation is under their responsibility.
Art. 11. Foreign «container» and its specific accessories can only be used in the transportation of goods of the country trade only once, as well as in the movement between the location where the container is emptied and where it receives the exported goods, or where it is sent abroad again.
Sole Paragraph. In case of interest for national economy and for a temporary period, executive branch can authorize the use of the foreign «container» in the internal trade.....
Art. 34. Import form or similar document, required by the current legislation, is considered a serious violation committed by headers of Direct or Indirect Administration agencies.
Paragraph 1. Investigation of the irregularity mentioned in the caput of this article is only made through inquiry determined by the pertinent authority.
Paragraph 2. Continuation of customs clearance of imported goods under the conditions of the caput of this article depends on the conclusion of the inquiry mentioned in the previous paragraph.
Paragraph 3. Finance Minister organizes the tax procedures to be adopted by the agencies of Federal Revenue Office when infringements that involve Public Administration agencies occur in the import.
Art. 35. Finance Minister explains the requirement of import form or similar document before the shipment outside Brazil for delivery of foreign goods in Manaus Free Trade Zone.
Art. 36. Executive branch can fix maximum global limits of imports to be yearly made by Manaus Free Trade Zone....”
Structure of the Order Management System
The Order Management System module meets the following requirements: