• Shortening the lead time to market
• Improving the quality of customer service
• In compliance with trade regulations and practice
• Reducing operation cost

To help the industry achieve such competitive advantages, Tradelink has developed Traders Documentation Service ("TDS") which is an application framework for paperless collaboration among a group of trading parties and corresponding service providers. Business processes like Order Management, Freight Arrangement, Distribution, and Payment Collection can be implemented in TDS. TDS extends the management control from internal Enterprise Resource Planning ("ERP") systems to the external business communities. TDS aims to improve the overall operational efficiency along the process in the supply chain and enable the trading communities to achieve better performance in reliability as well as scalability.

TDS adopts Microsoft Excel as its front-end tool for document preparation. TDS's user-friendly applications allow customers to prepare purchase orders, invoices, and packing lists etc. in an error free and timely manner. Since TDS is fully DTTN-enabled, users of TDS are technically ready to connect to DTTN and all the documents prepared in TDS can be sent to DTTN for format conversion (eg. from Excel format to EDI or XML format) as required by the recipients.

TDS supports the following user communities groups:

• Buyer-seller-forwarder
• Shipper-Forwarder
• Exporter-Courier
• Importer-supplier