STICKING TO core competencies and outsourcing the rest to the
specialists is a concept which is catching on fast in South Africa.
FTW's Alan Peat, Leonard Neill and Ray Smuts take a closer look ...
Users are notified automatically
of any potential 'match',
writes Ray Smuts
LOGISTICAL stresses in South Africa's burgeoning road transport industry could be eased considerably by way of a new software product about to be launched by Cape Town company Solution Dynamix.
The new package, known as Transfusion, aims at addressing the need for optimal freight management allowing freight companies, transport brokers and vehicle owners to freely and efficiently communicate freight requirements and availability.
Solution Dynamix managing director Antony Turner says Transfusion is a 'now, of this time', product utilising existing communications architecture - telephones, computer modems and the like - and incorporating the Internet as an easily-accessible means of file transfer.
We have created a software package that will utilise these communications, allowing for a more effective use of company resources through boosted productivity and cost savings.
The core concept behind Transfusion is to assist truckers and brokers to ensure that trucks are always filled to capacity. To achieve this, Transfusion provides a means for truckers to advertise availability of free space on empty or partially laden trucks and for brokers to advertise their requiremens for space according to pick-up and drop-off locations and other pertinent information.
These 'adverts' are posted to the central Transfusion database from where they are automatically transmitted to all Transfusion systems countrywide. Users are notified automatically of any potential 'match' between their requirements and those of other Transfusion users.
Transfusion is leading the way in logistic technology worldwide by incorporating the latest Internet technology for cellular 'phones, Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). This technology will allow truckers and field personel with WAP-enabled 'phones to communicate directly with the central Transfusion system.
Solution Dynamix' product manager Clinton Long says:Transfusion allows road transport operators to post their listings and freight requirements nationwide as many times as is necessary, whether it relate to loads to transport or carry. He predicts the database will prove invaluable as all postings provide up -to-the-minute information on available dates, times and locations.
Turner tells FTW the Transfusion product will be available free of charge until the end of December, thereafter at a monthly company subscription plus additional per user fee.
The personalised launch kicks off in Cape Town at the end of August, thereafter moving to all the other major centres and focusing initially on the country's approximately 600 hauliers but Turner and Long are in mental 'tandem' that Transfusion will ultimately be in use by a much larger segment of the road transport industry.
Since is formation almost two years ago, Solution Dynamix has been involved primarily in programming for Systems Automations and Processes (SAP), a German company with branches around the world.
The software training tool provided by Solution Dynamix for SAP is now in use by companies in several countries including Rolls Royce, Harrods and Sony in the United Kingdom, Caltex Oil, Daimler Chrysler and Toyota in South Africa and Dulux and Gillette in Australia.
For further information access Solution Dynamix on www.transfusion.co.za
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