Providing all operational and
accounting requirements
Geoff Partridge É
‘incorporating very
effective added
value features.’
A STATE-of-the-art, web-based track and trace system that offers customers access to live freight status and accounting information is just one of several new features offered by “Odyssey”, Clover Cargo International’s recently launched, fully upgraded freight operating system.
“We have made major strides on the IT side,” says Gauteng managing director Geoff Partridge.
“We’ve always believed in developing our own operating systems to ensure that we can adapt to changing market requirements to meet the needs of our customers. After 18 months of extensive development, we have rolled out the enhanced product, which we have fondly named Odyssey.”
“Specifically designed for the freight industry, Odyssey provides all operational and accounting requirements, as well as some very effective added value features such as an international freight forwarding profit share system, full EDI connectivity to Customs, and the ability to produce a wide range of management Information reports in Excel format that can be e-mailed to our clients directly from the server,” says Partridge.
“Freight operating systems are mission critical in our business, so we have taken our reliable and robust existing technology, and by using 4th generation development tools (not emulation software), can now successfully access information from the database in such as way that it has allowed us to created IT solutions that a few years ago would have been unheard of.”
A good example of this is the development of a web-based track and trace system which allows the customer, via password protection, to track live or historical shipment and accounting information directly from Odyssey in an easy-to-use windows format. “It gives our clients 24/7 access to important information and has attracted enormously positive feedback,” says Partridge.
“In a complex industry such as ours which lacks any really effective IT solution, we believe that Odyssey gives us both the reliability to efficiently tackle the day-to-day operational processes, and the flexibility to tailor and enhance our operating system to suit the changing needs of future,” he added.
