Software keeps smaller agencies competitive

ED RICHARDSON ELECTRONIC DATA Interchange (EDI) has not signalled the end of the line for the smaller agencies, according to Chrissie du Barry of Ship Shape Software. Smaller agencies are adapting to customs demand that they go electronic by investing in affordable software systems that have a number of other benefits, she adds. “There are a lot of benefits of having a system, in addition to the EDI. Systems can generate a number of reports which take too much time to do manually,” she says. Software packages supplied by Ship Shape cover all modes of transport including seafreight, airfreight and road freight to enable you to do all your Customs clearing documentation with full EDI integration with Customs on both imports and exports, freight invoicing, warehouse management, a tariff book with intuitive search functions, and a groupage forwarding module with an invoicing and disbursements journal. Modules are supplied separately to meet the needs of specialist agents and to keep costs down. The software runs on standard modern PCs and can be networked through a server.