Freight system facilitates collaboration along the supply chain

Reducing the cost of logistics
is the clear objective of
every participant in the
supply chain – and collaboration
by all parties to identify areas of
optimisation and cost reduction is
increasingly being recognised as the
means to this end.
“Collaboration,” explains Glenn
Lawson, head of customer services
at Core Freight Systems, “implies
the sharing of information – and
the efficient sharing of this data
is generally a function of the
information technology systems in
place along the chain.
“This data should provide input to
the decisions and subsequent action
taken to optimise the movement of
the goods,” he told FTW.
Supply chain executives
should therefore be examining
the attributes of the IT systems
used within their areas of
responsibility, says Lawson,
“whether reviewing the system endto-
end or in the usage of the internal
applications within their own
organisations – and which
are required to contribute to the
overall supply chain.”
Core Freight Systems provides
a comprehensive software package
for South African freight forwarding
and customs clearing operations.
“The application is designed to
realise not only efficiencies in the
traditional forwarding and clearing
processing within an organisation,
but to facilitate the interaction
with other relevant third party
applications in the overall supply
chain as required. This enables
their clients to participate through
“collaboration” in order to optimise
the logistics supply chain. This is
achieved primarily through two
modules of the CoreFreight suite,
CoreQuery and CoreXchange,”
says Lawson.
CoreQuery is an on-line internetbased
application which shows the
updated status of all shipments as
processed through the CoreFreight
application.
The CoreXchange functionality
is designed to accommodate the
efficient import and export of data
from the CoreFreight database itself,
he added.