FFS

Freight Forwarding System.

Company

Often FFS have the concept of a “company” that represents a country the forwarder does business in. There are often multiple companies within the same FFS instance for a forwarder, and sometimes one country will have multiple companies.

Account

In BravoTran an account maps to a company or country in the FFS and assumes the account will only receive payables invoices for jobs and accruals specific to that company or country.

Branch

BravoTran assumes a branch is a specific location in a country / company. A company can have multiple branches.

Outbound

This is data flowing from the FFS to BravoTran.

Inbound

This is data flowing from BravoTran to the FFS.

Staff

Users in the FFS who should be users in BravoTran. They can be AP clerks, operators, etc.

Org

Orgs are vendors, carriers, creditors, debtors, etc.

Creditor

An org who can submit a payables invoice.

Debtor

An org who will receive a receivables invoice.