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.