ArkiWay

Arkitech has more than 20 years' experience with transport logistics, and in the last 2 years we have developed the next generation Transport Management System for Eimskip Norway.

We are now developing a system called ArkiWay. This is a solution similar to the system developed for Eimskip and which will be ready for commercial use during the first quarter of 2024. Our long-term goal is to make ArkiWay a standardized system that requires minimal adaptations for customers. To ensure that the system is of the highest quality and satisfies the customers' needs, we are now actively looking for more pilot customers.

As a pilot customer of ArkiWay, you will have a unique opportunity to influence the system's functionality and development plan, so that the system can support your specific processes and needs. This will help to make operations more efficient for your company.

In the first version of ArkiWay, our main focus has been functionality for boat transporters, and especially with regard to sales, orders, logistics planning and operations. We have also included functionality to handle external carriers, but here operation will not be prioritized now.

One system.

With ArkiWay, one can combine logistics services to tailor solutions as the customer desires. This can be a simple transport from point A to point B, or a complex transport involving various modes of transportation, carriers, interim storage, and/or documentation.

  • Sales, service, price, cost, profitability and invoicing

  • Planning, tracking, and management of logistics

  • Planning, tracking, and monitoring of operations

  • Combining logistics services in a single order

  • Communication and documentation related to the order

  • Multiple individuals can work on the same order, with different services

  • User-friendly and intuitive user interface, ensuring high efficiency, fast training, and low costs

  • Transport documents related to transportation

  • Fully digital document flow

  • Integrations to ensure information is registered only once

ArkiWay is built according to the principles of next-generation TMS.

Price - cost - profit.

ArkiWay focuses on enabling users to make smart financial decisions. Price, cost, and profitability (gross profit) are displayed everywhere in the system, where user changes can affect them.

  • Flexible pricing, with standard and customer price lists, featuring many variables

  • Calculation of logistics costs

  • Registration of expected costs

  • Profitability per order, service, transport, and trip

  • Flexible invoicing

    • Services from different orders can be combined on the same invoice

    • Services on the same order for different customers

    • Many orders on one invoice

    • Invoice is automatically split by customer and currency

  • Decision support, alternative logistics, cost/profitability

Vessel transport.

The first version of ArkiWay focuses on vessel transport and includes functionality for both planning and operations, which is closely integrated with the system's sales module.

  • Trip planning

  • Automatic calculation and re-calculation of arrival times, including loading and discharging times

  • Manual updating of the sailing schedule can be done by the vessel crew

  • Information on planned arrivals and activities at terminals

  • Booking of transport/load directly on the trip

  • Automatic creation of orders for transport booked on a trip

  • List of assignments where transport is not planned (backlog)

  • Create transport on trip from assignment list

  • Move transports between trips

  • Plan the placement of cargo on board the vessel

  • Capacity utilization

  • Real-time updates on the progress of loading and discharging operations*

  • Real-time updates on damages and deviations to cargo*

  • Real-time tracking and display of vessel positions

  • Digital signing of transport documents (e.g. consignment note, sea waybill, bill of lading, etc.)**

*When using the system's loading application

**Signing process is set up according to the customer's needs

Logistics Flexibility.

ArkiWay allows for highly dynamic planning and execution of transport.

  • The sailing schedule (trip) can be changed for an ongoing trip

  • Transports can be added/changed/removed for an ongoing trip

  • Cargo can be split across multiple transports (new/existing) after the transport has started

  • The shipper can be changed after the transport has begun

  • New transport can be added by the vessel as needed

  • Additional cargo for transport can be registered upon loading


Similar functionality is planned for truck transport.

Loading system.

Traditionally, loading systems for transport logistics have used industrial terminals of various kinds. These are costly terminals, both in purchase and operation; they are not user-friendly and often require specialists to install new versions.

For ArkiWay, we have developed an app that runs on a standard tablet or smartphone, resulting in low investment, operating, and training costs.

  • Control of cargo in/out of transport vehicle using a scanner or manually

  • Registration of damages, including photos and videos

  • Registration of deviations

  • Electronic signing of consignment notes or equivalent

  • Works without internet connection*

*Automatically synchronizes data to/from ArkiWay as soon as there is internet connection