Training courses streamed to CT office

The freight system specialist, Compu- Clearing, is critically aware of the importance that the Western Cape holds for the clearing and forwarding industry in SA, according to sales and marketing manager, Nachi Mendelow. “Recognising this, we have maintained a physical office at the Airport Industria in Cape Town, for the past three years,” he told FTW. “This is linked by both voice and video to the Johannesburg training rooms – and the monthly training courses on all the Compu-Clearing systems are streamed live and direct to our office.” This allows the company to effectively offer monthly live training on all Compu- Clearing modules at its Cape Town base. “Additionally,” said Mendelow, “we have entered into an agreement with training house, SDS, allowing it to make use of our premises to host its training courses.” Also, now that submitting manual entries is no more, and replaced by electronic data interchange (EDI) clearance through customs, Compu-Clearing has been helping out agents in Saldanha on how to submit these entries electronically. “We have already enjoyed notable success assisting these agents to move to this electronically submission,” said Mendelow. “Our representatives in Cape Town, have helped and guided these customers throughout the process to ensure that their installations were successful. “Not only did they provide training, hand-holding and support, they have also assisted clients to obtain and complete all the documents required by customs.” Compu-Clearing’s successful move into the EDI process has led the company to eagerly await the roll-out of the Customs Modernisation Stage 2. As part of its expansion plans in Cape Town, Compu-Clearing intends to soon add a marketing person to the staff complement