Inland Terminals / Ports

You need maximum efficiency. But right now …
You can only start scheduling and planning after shipments have arrived. And even then, all your different IT systems can’t talk to each other.

The solution is MAXimas.

For a great the many Inland Ports, one of the greatest impediments to real efficiency is that no one can start planning and scheduling, what has to be done, until after shipments have actually arrived and been unloaded.

Which mean that instead of planning, they are only really reacting. With all of the very obvious problems and inefficiencies that result.

With the MAXimas integrated solution, however, the opposite holds true. And that’s because the system:

• Gives you an online update of all relevant vessel and voyage details so you know what is going to arrive and when.
• Let’s rail operators notify you of specific containers that have been loaded and are about to be despatched. Allowing you to match arrivals with the work to be carried out.
• Notes the customs status of each container so you know what is still in bond, what has been cleared on arrival and what has been cleared in transit. Also what requires a quarantine service tail gate inspection or wash.
  

Capabilities that really do allow you to now be highly proactive. And that’s because MAXimas enables you to:

• Benefit from extensive forward planning. Which can be fine tuned as regular updates are automatically received. Meticulously schedule labour and equipment.
• Effectively manage customs and quarantine requirements.
• Ensure that containers are located and stacked in a way that best suits the next task to be performed. Often as simple a matter as not placing a box – that requires rapid despatch – under several others.
• Eliminate the unnecessary and costly double and triple handling of containers.
• Provide end customers – and third parties such as freight forwarders – with a precise and progressive web or email update on the status of apposite containers.
• Enjoy business expansion, without a comparable increase staff and material handling investments.
  

OK. So far so good. But what about the IT systems that you are using to support all the work the Inland Port is carrying out. Right now, you may have several disparate computer applications together with a myriad of error prone manual processes that are also needed.

And that scenario can mean:

• It is hard to clearly and quickly determine the profitability of a particular customer project or job because essential data is buried across several systems.
• You are unable to give customers simple, seamless and online visibility – with relevant alerts – of the status of their shipments.
• The need to repetitively enter data into several systems. An error prone, unproductive and expensive overhead.
• The inability to offer customers a business to business software link so that their systems and yours can communicate directly.
• The very real risk of revenue leakage because work been done is not properly captured and billed.
• The impossibility of interfacing with other supply chain organisations.
• Receiving operational information too late to initiate corrective action where this is necessary.
• A lack of any real Key Performance Indicators on which to monitor performance, detect problems and plan for growth.
• You are getting conflicting information from different systems.
• The inability to introduce ‘activity based’ costing.
• The high cost of running larger than necessary Debtors’ Days Outstanding because billing is late and because error levels cause regular invoice disputes.
• The need to merge data from several systems and reports simply to get the information you need.
  

Again, the solution is MAXimas. Because, each and every one of your Inland Port operations can now be supported by a single IT software system. Which means that each of the challenges just noted will quickly become a thing of the past.

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