National Grain and Feed Digital Solutions (NGFDS) announced Nov. 30 that the Barge Digital Transformation (BDT) platform will be operational for soybeans and other commodities, including wheat, soybean meal and distillers dried grains, in early 2021.
The platform has been operational for corn bills of lading since Nov. 1.
NGFA announced its official partnership in July with the affiliated organization NGFDS to oversee the BDT platform. NGFDS has partnered with essDOCS to implement this platform that is digitizing barge trading documents so they may be transmitted electronically – a huge cost savings to the industry. In particular, the new platform is expected to digitize the approximately 70,000 to 100,000 negotiable barge bills of lading that NGFA-member companies process each year.
essDOCS currently is working on the following updates for the system:
- Filters: new internal shipments filter, renamed filters and advanced search features to enhance effectiveness of filters in the system.
- Ability to remove barge after shipper bust.
- System timeout increased to 60 minutes.
NGFDS hosted three training sessions for using the BDT platform on Oct. 21-23. View recordings of the sessions here.
Sign up here to be able to use the BDT system. Contact support@essdocs.com for BDT system support.
Lacy Holleman
National Grain and Feed Association
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