Container Maintenance & Repair Solution

iMARS is a container maintenance and repair solution, which is an intelligent aid for ocean carriers and container leasing companies. It provides a common platform for all stakeholders of the M&R activity, to handle their respective business processes in a transparent and efficient manner.

iMARS is a modular product. It comprises of separately installable modules like M&R workflow, depot tariff validations, present approval validations, proforma invoice and reporting.

This container maintenance and repair software, adds value to owner’s operations by enabling them to record their approvals and helping make decisions quicker. It targets to improve the approval time for M&R managers, thus improving efficiency of depots, and provide measurable cost saving on the M&R activity.

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Features

Evaluate and Maintain Health of Container Fleet

Easy adoption of customer’s M and R workflow
Validations on repair codes
Configurable approval process

Advanced Estimate and Tariff Management

Complex tariff captured in a user friendly manner
Different types of slab rates and calculation methods
Quick estimate entry (EDI integration possible), tariff validated
Ability to handle inservice/ offhire and emergency (DM in LADEN) estimates

Estimate Auto-Evaluation

Unique feature applied to estimates to aid M&R user’s decision making
Set predefined rules for M&R process
Passport concept (comparing repair cost vs depreciated value).
Equipment-based Special Instructions
Many other evaluation rules built in

Comprehensive Reporting and Self-Billing

Repair bills payable to repair companies auto-generated
Operational and management analysis reports
Enables analyzing performance of various trading partners
Quickly identify root cause of repeated issues and usage audit

Dashboard

Dashboard gives you a 360 degree overview of the complete operations of M&R across all locations.
Actions such as approvals can be taken on estimates right from the dashboard.

Recovery

Estimates can be assigned to the recovery agents for follow up and recovery of repair cost
Flexible billing output can be taken from the system
Recovery file creation and transfer of files between recovery area/agents

Benefits

An Intelligent aid for M&R managers
Quick turnaround time resulting in enhanced fleet utilization.

Results in a measurable cost saving of the M&R activity
A common platform for all the stakeholders of M&R activity to handle their respective
business process in a transparent and efficient manner

A truly web based solution reducing the cost of ownership per user.
Well-defined SLAs to ensure you get the best support from iInterchange.

What Customers Say about iMARS

CMA CGM is, nearing the end of the year 2015, in the final deployment phase of iMARS as it’s M&R programme control tool. Interface is user friendly, and alerts, prompts and user notes, as well as the scrolling news and circulars, are noteworthy features. Picture friendly, of course EDI compatible, and with aim of programme being accessible by on site inspectors on a Laptop, we will count on iMARS to increase the 3rd Largest Shipping Line in the World level of control over its worldwide repairs on its container controlled fleet of dries, reefers, specials. We found the iInterchange team to be professional and committed throughout the Pre and Post deployment process. Their team is backed by consistent processes and methodologies which places them well as an offshore solutions provider.
Philippe Berard, Equipment & Depot Senior Manager
CMA CGM - Head Office Marseille, France
Product : iMARS