‘Electronic communication paramount’

More often than not companies are moving to seamless solutions from indent to general ledger, says Pedro da Costa, managing director of Compufreight. A software development house providing comprehensive freight management solutions, Compufreight is a firm believer in software solutions that are not only comprehensive but also affordable, reliable and scalable. “In the clearing and forwarding industry electronic communications and solutions are paramount. Without that, the client will not achieve successful clearance for imports or exports,” says Da Costa. Having developed a freight management solution that is a fully integrated suite built for any size of clearing agent to scale their operations, simplifying back office activities, adding locality to bring about better control over logistics with minimal additional resources, Da Costa’s vision for the freight and logistics industry is that of a seamless, open and integrated technology environment whereby all components work together. He says at Compufreight there are always developments to improve electronic offerings. One such development is the workflow bulletin board, which provides the ability to monitor and control the planning and execution of events that exist across the entire supply chain, by defining workflow and critical dates with automatic scheduling of Tasks, Milestones, Exception and Event management across the Indenting, Forwarding, Brokering, Warehousing and Accounting functions. Information is entered once and accessible organisationwide in every department, in every branch. It is about providing affordable, user-friendly software solutions for the clearing and forwarding industry, says Da Costa. “There are challenges, for example, in warehousing, where clients want to be able to access live consolidated stock reporting and then do their pick list electronically. We have therefore developed a management system that allows for connectivity via the Internet and can overcome this challenge.”