Electronic shipment planner

An electronic shipment planner adapted for electronically presenting shipment and scheduling information to a user, the shipment and scheduling information including at least one event date, said shipment planner comprising:

• a shipment data repository containing shipment and scheduling information for inbound freight, outbound freight, and third party freight;
• a system interface communicating with said shipment data repository;
• a calendar display interface for displaying said shipment planner to the user in a calendar format, said calendar format comprising a tabular register of days;
• a plurality of interactive shipment data links contained within certain days displayed in said calendar display interface, and electronically associated with the shipment and scheduling information, said plurality of shipment data links cooperating with said system interface as commanded by the user to access and retrieve the associated shipment and scheduling information contained in said shipment data repository, and said plurality of shipment data links comprising:
• a plurality of inbound freight data links for accessing and retrieving associated inbound freight information from said shipment data repository;
• a plurality of outbound freight data links for accessing and retrieving associated outbound freight information from said shipment data repository;
• a plurality of third party freight data links for accessing and retrieving associated third party freight information from said shipment data repository;
• a personal event data repository containing personal event information of the user, the personal event information being associated with a personal event date;
• a plurality of interactive personal event data links contained within certain days displayed in said calendar display interface, and electronically associated with the personal event information of the user, said plurality of personal event data links cooperating with said system interface as commanded by the user to access and retrieve the associated personal event information contained in said personal event data repository;
• said calendar display interface further comprising a first data code visually distinguishing all of said inbound freight data links contained within said tabular register of days, a second data code visually distinguishing all of said outbound freight data links contained within said tabular register of days, a third data code visually distinguishing all of the said third party freight data links contained within said tabular register of days, and fourth data code visually distinguishing all of said personal event data links contained within said tabular register of days;
• whereby said shipment planner defines an interactive visual reference to manage and track shipments;
• a legend for indicating the data code for each of said shipment data and personal event data links.

A computer readable memory medium, encoded with data representing a computer program, that can be used by a computer system to direct the computer system to execute a method for electronically presenting shipment and scheduling information to a user, the shipment and scheduling information including at least one shipment event date, the medium comprising:

• a system interface communicating with a shipment data repository containing shipment and scheduling information;
• a calendar display interface for displaying shipment and scheduling information to the user in a calendar format, said calendar format comprising a tabular register of days;
• a plurality of interactive shipment data links contained within certain days displayed in said calendar display interface, and electronically associated with the shipment and scheduling information, said plurality of shipment data links cooperating with said system interface as commanded by the user to access and retrieve the associated shipment and scheduling information contained in said shipment data repository, and said plurality of shipment data links comprising:
• a plurality of inbound freight data links for accessing and retrieving associated inbound freight information from said shipment data repository;
• a plurality of outbound freight data links for accessing and retrieving associated outbound freight information from said shipment data repository;
• a plurality of third party freight data links for accessing and retrieving associated third party freight information from said shipment data repository;
• said calendar display interface further comprising a first data code visually distinguishing all of said inbound freight data links contained within said tabular register of days, a second data code visually distinguishing all of said outbound freight data links contained within said tabular register of days, and a third data code visually distinguishing all of said third party freight data links contained within said tabular register of days;
• whereby said shipment planner defines an interactive visual reference adapted to manage and track shipments.