‘CoreFreight helps leverage IT to benefit automotive supply chain’

In the increasingly competitive
field of automotive logistics,
efficiency is a vital component that
goes beyond the manufacturing
process or the physical movement
of goods along the supply chain.
Increasingly it’s seen in terms
of the associated data-flow –
which should be able to provide
improvements in both the actual
processing of data within an IT
system and visibility of progress as
goods move along the chain, says
Jonathan Sims of forwarding and
clearing software service provider
Core Freight Systems.
“With Core Freight clients
serving a range of automotive
brands – from high-volume
manufacturers to exotic sports car
imports – we see opportunities to
leverage information technology
for the benefit of the supply chain
participants,” says Sims. “These
efficiency gains are not restricted
to users of the functionality
within the application itself but in
the ability to interact with other
applications in use by other parties
servicing the chain.”
Sims believes that a single
IT application cannot provide
a comprehensive cost-effective
best-of-breed solution across
the required activities in any
supply chain of any consequence.
“It is highly unlikely that one
application will provide the
optimum specialised functionality
required in each aspect of
operation,” he told FTW. “For
example, the application providing
warehousing and distribution best
suited to a client’s operations
may well not provide the best
customs clearing management
functionality, and the client should
not have to compromise by taking
a “bundled-package” solution that
delivers generic performance at
the level of the lowest common
denominator.
“The CoreXchange module is
a mechanism used to facilitate
the connection of the specialised
CoreFreight functionality with
other pertinent independent
solutions,” he said.