Transport

When it’s imperative to reduce futile trips,
Wasted time & Dead empty legs...

The solution is MAXimas.

Let’s be frank. There are many Transport Management Software solutions. And, in the correct context, most deliver commendable results and benefits. But, and it’s a big but, the majority of TMS packages have been developed with loose cargo and LCL in mind. Not container haulage. What’s more, many only address a single facet of the overall supply chain. Which means that if you do much, much more than just transport, then you also need other IT applications to help drive those other key business activities.

So what are the implications of those two very major shortcomings? Well first up, we believe that using a basic TMS to manage containers is precisely the wrong way to go. They are highly inconvenient and cumbersome and demand a whole lot of ‘work arounds’ to achieve anything like what you want and need. Sure some systems argue that they meet the challenge by treating a container simply as one large package.

"...using a basic TMS to manage containers is precisely the wrong way to go."

But if that’s the answer then the question still remains as to how they handle de-hired, repaired, stored and returned containers? All things that MAXimas does automatically as part and parcel of a single comprehensive system that’s’ been designed – from the ground up – specifically for containers. Using a single integrated across your operations also makes very practical sense. And that’s because it means the IT solutions throughout your business are always communicating and ensuring that this automatic dialogue delivers maximum efficiency. Put simply, it means the right truck, will arrive at the right warehouse at the right time.

So transport will no arrive at a warehouse before loading is ready to take place, thus eliminating unproductive waiting times. All parties will have the latest and common information, and so turnaround is fast. And nobody ever attempts to do a drop off when documentation is not yet complete. The system is also aware of all the work to be done whether time critical or non-critical. So if a truck has just done a drop off, MAXimas will recommend a scheduled pick up, close by, thus eliminating endless, unproductive empty return to depot trips and outbound trips.

And with MAXimas integration you also ensure:

• Customer have a total, simple and seamless online visibility of the status of their work irrespective of where it is in the supply chain.
• All the work you do for a customer can be consolidated into a single invoice.
• Customers will come to rely on the supply chain visibility and business-to-business IT links you provide. So they become more locked in.
• You can manage centrally although operations are highly decentralised.
• Revenue leakage is prevented as all work done for a client will be properly recorded and billed.
• Time consuming and error prone duplication of data will be eliminated.
• Operational management will have fast and accurate view of performance, and of problems before they become critical.
• The capacity to introduce true ‘activity based’ costing because the necessary tools ar now available.
• The reduction in operational lead times as individual activities are automatically linked.
• Debtors’ Days Outstanding are reduced because billing is faster and because reduced errors will minimise customer disputes.