The highly configurable PROS O&D Cargo Solution™ is the air cargo industry’s leading revenue management tool. PROS O&D Cargo maximizes total contribution from all shipments, whether carried in belly capacity of passenger flights, in freighters, combis, trucking networks, or by alliance partners or blocked space agreements. Both mixed carriers and pure cargo carriers gain competitive advantage from the total network optimization in PROS O&D Cargo.
PROS O&D Cargo is more than a revenue management system. PROS O&D Cargo considers rates and surcharges that make up revenue as well as the variable costs for every route in your network. This allows carriers to maximize their overall network contribution. In addition to deriving the optimal mix of allocation and free-sell demand for optimal financial results, PROS O&D Cargo also evaluates each ad hoc booking in real-time to certify that every shipment meets or beats optimal hurdle rates, cost + margin targets, and minimum selling rate rules. But yield is not the only consideration. When evaluating booking requests PROS O&D Cargo recognizes “lifetime customer value” opportunities by configurable booking priorities and customer value quotients to make sure the right lifetime value decision is made for all customers.
The PROS O&D Cargo solution provides powerful tools to address airline revenue-critical challenges, including:
- Science-based sales targets for stations
- Spot pricing guidance for ad hoc deals
- Finding the contribution-optimal mix of contract demand and freesale demand
- Knowing when to accept and when to reject shipments in order to arrive at overall maximum network contribution
The PROS O&D Cargo solution seamlessly integrates with other PROS solutions. Either the PROS O&D Solutions or PROS RMS can be the source of forecasted passenger load information to PROS O&D Cargo. This powerful combination is used to make contribution-optimal use of your fleet’s maximum payloads. PROS O&D Cargo is fully integrated with the PROS Analytics for Airlines providing powerful decision support capabilities to the RM analyst.