Full range of courses on offer to non-clients

To back up the comprehensive range of freight systems available from Compu-Clearing, the company also operates a complete training system – designed to familiarise users with its products. “We like to put our users in a position where they derive maximum value from our systems,” said Nachi Mendelow, the marketing representative of Compu- Clearing Outsourcing. “For this reason we offer training courses on all our systems free of charge to new clients joining us. “And, because of the market needs, we’ve taken this a stage further – offering the same range of courses to non-clients at a moderate charge.” CC has devised these courses under the two headings of “operational systems” and “financial systems” – and runs these nationally via the internet on a webinar (web seminar) basis. “This is extremely user-friendly,” Mendelow added, “visually interesting and easy-to-understand, allowing the learners to interact with the courses and trainers as they progress through them.” Courses under the “operational systems” heading are: seafreight groupage; airfreight breakbulk forwarding/ invoicing; registration air, sea and tracking; air export registration and airwaybill (AWB); sea exports registration and bill of lading (BoL); import bill of entry (BoE), VOC and ex-bonds; export BoE, VOC and ex-bonds; invoicing tariffs and management reports; invoice creation; costing; FrOnT; (freight on time – a road distribution system) and AIWACS (airfreight import warehouse accounting system). Under financial systems, the course headings are: debtors; cashbook; creditors and disbursement; and general ledger. “A complete range of courses for a complete range of systems,” Mendelow added. And they are almost instantly available for those who want to take part. “The clients don’t have long to wait before a course comes up,” said Mendelow, “as we run the full range of all 15 courses each and every month.” The training courses are available at Compu- Clearing’s branches in Johannesburg and Cape Town – with a similar feature currently being put together and on its way to Durban soon, according to Mendelow.