System helps improve agents’ productivity

Freight systems provider Compu-Clearing is making significant inroads in the overborder market with its CargoWise ediEnterprise single platform logistics management system. “Thanks to the CargoWise joint venture, Compu-Clearing is expanding its product offering beyond customs clearing to full supply chain logistics – which includes SA customs,” says marketing manager Moshe Zulberg. “We’ve got prospects in Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe – and we’re achieving success in these markets,” Zulberg told FTW. “While we’re not doing the customs clearance overborder, we are providing a full supply chain logistics package,” he said. The benefit of the ediEnterprise system is that on both sides of the border you work on one database and one system, says Zulberg. The time- and cost-saving benefits have already found favour with Namibian logistics provider Transworld Cargo. According to managing director Heino Herrlich, the company has managed to streamline its operations through the implementation of ediEnterprise, replacing a series of separate operational and financial software systems with CargoWise’s ediEnterprise single platform ‘only enter data once’ technology. As a result it has improved productivity and improved its integration with global partners, said Herrlich. And this is the message that comes through loud and clear with every new installation, says Zulberg. “For example, CargoWise has customers who have multiple branches worldwide. They have one system hosted in the UK, USA and AUS which supports as many users as the companies need. When an import or export is transacted, because it’s one system for each group, once the export has been entered, all the information is immediately available to the importer.” The same applies to different companies using ediEnterprise,” says Zulberg. “There’s an amazing facility called E2E. The second there’s a transaction in one system, the information is automatically picked up by the other system. You end up with companies able to totally integrate any aspect of the system. “In the overborder market there’s a similar chain of events with Asycuda,” said Zulberg. “If you do the import or export on Compu- Clearing, you’re able to pull and push the information to Asycuda.” The big benefit of CargoWise, says Zulberg, and one that is finding favour in the overborder market, is the fact that it’s a one-input system. “You enter the information once and you don’t have to recapture anything – it integrates seamlessly between all your branches. “It’s highly efficient and enables the user to automate many expensive manual processes. “The agent’s clients can log in, do their own quotes, view their invoicing – in fact they can access everything within the parameters set.” While Zulberg estimates that Compu-Clearing has cornered a large portion of the import and export clearance market – ediEnterprise adds substantial muscle, providing customers with a logistics execution facility via a single integrated platform, with Compu-Clearing’s customs clearance system available to SA customers as part of the package, he added. CAPTION Moshe Zulberg … ‘automating many expensive manual processes.’