Pre-event costing now an essential business tool

THE RAPIDLY changing
world of business has
raised the barr in terms
of electronic solutions
demands.
“There are dramatic
changes in exchange rates,
and oil prices going through
the roof,” says Compu
Clearing chairman Arnold
Garber. “It’s not a very
steady world economy,
and there is lots of
competitiveness in chasing
the increasing volumes of
world trade”
This, he added, is a
situation where any mistakes
by an importer can be very
costly.
The days of working by
“gut feel” and post-event
costing of orders have gone.
“Now,” said Garber, “an
importer needs to have preevent
costing if he intends
to avoid possible disaster”
– with Compu-Clearing one
of the few suppliers of the
latest pre-event costing
programmes.
“If you fail to plan, you
plan to fail,” Garber added.
“And pre-event costing
is really just that – planning.
So, even if things don’t work
according to plan, it’ll still be
closer than if you didn’t plan
at all.”
In the future, the
already-noticeable lack of
skilled staff is going to see
an ever-greater move into
information technology as
an alternative.
“If you don’t have
automation,” said Garber,
“you won’t survive in what
is now a competitively cutthroat
freight industry.”