Container Parks / Depots

If your ambition is to eliminate revenue leakage, speed billings, streamline EOR & and approvals, enhance customer service and substantially improve productivity ...

The solution is MAXimas.

As one of our highly respected users, Salta/Westgate Group, so potently note:

“Technology is all about ensuring our client gets what they want – and it’s then about driving internal efficiencies and cost savings. With the right IT solutions there is considerable room for process improvement.”

A view with which we totally agree. None the least when considering the application of advanced computer systems to the work of Container Parks. And, in that context, we also acknowledge the solid substance of our customer’s opinions, who work in this arena. Logic, for example, that stresses that in most instances: “Price is largely everything”: And equally: “That the capabilities for adding value are very limited. Which demands that where such opportunities do exist, these need to be exploited with absolute tenacity.”

Given such powerful inputs, let’s paint our own potent view on how an innovative Container Park/Depot might highly effectively operate with the aid of the apposite MAXimas software solution.

Consider the substantial client, productivity and commercial benefits that would accrue if you were able to:

• Have an IT system that would automatically and immediately record all gatings in and gatings out, without the need for any time consuming and error prone paperwork.
• Automatically receive trading partner advice of container arrivals so that streamlined pre-gating could be achieved.
• More effectively know container movements, in advance, so that costly equipment could be more effectively allocated.
• Precisely know what containers are in maintenance and what are currently available for general use or for food or malt quality use.
• Give your customers an online, fully accurate and totally up to date view of their container availability.
• Use hand held RF (radio frequency) terminals to allow M&R assessors to directly and immediately input their ‘on the spot’ assessment of required repairs to the MAXimas Depot System.
• Automatically forward these quotations to clients based on agreed service rates.
• Then use IT to automatically monitor and control all issued M&R quotes, approvals, queries, outstanding quotes and completed work.
• Utilise RF devices to allow the workshop to instantly advise the MAXimas system when each and every maintenance job has been completed. Thus facilitating prompt billing, with total conformity to quote and ensuring no revenue loss.
• Stand in the yard and, using an RF terminal, key in a container number to immediately confirm its status.
• Treat the container park like a warehouse, with full location control for each and every container, and the inherent productivity savings this would generate.
  

But even then that’s only part of the story. Because with MAXimas, your Container Park software can be fully integrated with solutions needed by all your other divisions and operations.

Let’s give but one simple example. You may now only work with empty containers but are considering offering a complete and streamlined service for additionally handling full containers, including the allied use of rail transport. In such an event all of the IT functionality you will need is already present.

MAXimas.....The total software solution for integrated logistics