Freman | Owens Freight Management System

What is Freman?

Freman is our fast and easy-to-use online freight management system which allows you to produce and print all transport documents to accompany your freight in just a few clicks. This system has become the first choice for our customers who want easy consignment creation and increased productivity within their operations without the need to install anything.

Freman is regularly updated with new features and improvements to meet your freight management needs.

What are the benefits of using Freman?

Create and print your own consignment documentation

• Consignment notes
• Consignment labels
• Dangerous goods certificates
• Summary manifests
• CHEP report

If you have Java installed on your PC, Freman will remember your default printers to save you time with every consignment created.

Web based Advantages

• Accessible anywhere at anytime
• All you need is a computer with internet access and an existing account with us. Please contact your local branch if you are a regular customer and want to set up a login
• Easily despatch freight from multiple computers 
• No installation required on your network 
• Maintain and upgrade your own systems without needing to migrate databases, re-install software on every machine or manage regular database backups

Accurate & more efficient despatching process

• No more hand-writing of consignment notes, resulting in fewer errors due to misreading handwriting or data entry. No longer needing to file paper copies 
• Save and retrieve products, dangerous goods, receiver addresses, and account information on-the-go during consignment entry

Let your system ‘talk’ to ours via EDI Interfacing

• Freman has an EDI interface which allows our customers to directly import consignment details from third party ERP systems 
• The EDI interface allows you to automatically import your consignment note details from your ERP system so you only need to click print 
• Save time in your despatch process by giving your team more time to continue on with other tasks instead of re-entering consignment information into multiple systems

Automated Pickup jobs

Your consignment details can be set up to be electronically uploaded into our network via FremanWeb when you print your consignment notes. We can be automatically notified when your freight is ready to be picked up. This auto-pickup process can save you time by eliminating the need to phone or email a pickup request to our team 

Keep track of your important consignments

• Notify your customers or be notified when your consignment is despatched, on the way or delivered to your customer via automatic notifications
• Save notifications against a specific consignment note, or set it up to always send a notification when freight is despatched to a specific receiver. 
• P.O.D online –Proof of Delivery links are available for all delivered consignments making it easy for your customer service or despatch teams.
• Use your own order numbers or packing slip references as your consignment note numbers to make tracking your freight even easier

Hire Equipment Management

Manage your hire equipment accounts such as CHEP or Loscam pallets, keeping your costs under control and automatically transferring pallets off your account.

Get a quote and manage your costs

The system can quickly and easily produce a quote to send your freight from A to B. All you need is the destination, number of items, total cubic metres and weight to obtain a quote. You can then print or email a copy of your quotes to send to your customer. This can be saved as a PDF file to rationalise your invoice

Help is just a click away

Remote support is built into the Help menu without the need for an on-site visit.
If you need a quick tip or refresher, help is available through our user manuals and help text on every page.

Freman FAQ