Business Connectors & Messaging System

• Core Features:

  Exchanges order data and tracking information between your customers, business partners and your company over various communication channels. An instant messaging system sends notifications in real time to anyone if an order reaches a defined state or any problems occur in the business process.

• Benefits:

  Reduces data entry costs and error rates and enables disposition in advance. Problems are reported immediatly, so your workforce can react timely.

• Application examples:

  Receiving shipment data from consignors in advance
  Sending tracking data to consignors in real time
  Send delivery notice to consignors mobile phone a few seconds after consignee received shipment
  Send E-Mail to staff member if order times out

• Technology:

  ftp, http, https, smtp, XML-Parsing, ODBC, SMS-Messaging

Business Network Web Applications

• Core Features:

  Enables anyone to enter orders directly into your logistics systems, create business reports, request tracking&tracing - information, redirect orders and to validate invoices within an XML-based multi-dimensional viewing system.
  Order documents and barcode labels are created in real time and encoded with necessary information for an automated sorting facility
  An user management system allows various personalisations and pre-definitions

• Benefits:

  Enables your business partners 24 hours a day to place orders and request useful informations
  Frees your workforce from standard order entry processing and answering standard request
   

• Application examples:

  Place pickup orders and print order documents and barcodes
  Request tracking information
  Review invoices

• Technology:

  Apache, PHP, XML-Parsing, C/C++

Rich Client Applications

• Core Features:

  A lot, but not everything can be done within the scope of a web browser. Things like connecting scales and barcode scanners, driving high perfomance label printers in native mode, interacting with third party applications or doing mass data entry depend on more powerful graphical user interfaces then a browser can offer.
  Therefore these applications, which are of course closely connected to the prementioned business network, offer you more functionality in order processing, including billing, stock management and sophisticated document and report creation functionalities.

• Benefits:

  Manages all of your business tasks within a great graphical interface and addresses the job of integrating various logistics hardware components with digital interfaces.

  As logistics is often a wide area network job the technology needs very low bandwith between the desktop and the server system. Small branch offices can easily be connected to the host system without expensive data lines. As the business logic resides centralised on the server system, there is almost no need to update these applications, greatly reducing the TCO.
   

• Application examples:

  Front desk applications - order entry, barcode label creation, billing and shipment dispatch
  Billing and bookkeeping
  Back office order (re-)disposition

• Technology:

  C/C++, ONC RPC

Mobile Systems

• Core Features:

  Data capture and information at the point of transaction - conveyor, truck, consignor, consignee, stock or elsewhere in the field. Preload mobile devices with order information or request data online over wireless connections. Captured data or signature can be transfered in real time to the server system to shorten response times and enable just-in-time reactions.

• Benefits:

  Cuts down data entry costs in the back office and equips mobile workforce with information needed. No paper handling needed.

• Application examples:

  Pickup scanning
  Conveyor scanning, weighing, barcode labeling and shipment dispatch
  Delivery scanning including signature capture on touch screens
  Inventory scanning

• Technology:

  PocketPC, Palm and classic data terminals, C/C++, Interfaces to various logistics hardware

Server Systems

• Core Features:

  Application, internet and database services, automated and self checked batch processing. The majority of business logic resides on the server system, reducing staff intensive client updates. The system is Linux-based and uses Oracle for database services which stands for fast, reliable, highly scalable data processing.

  Extremely low resource consumption enables to run hundreds of users on a one-way intel server

• Benefits:

  Cost effective solution minimizing license fees, hardware investments and TCO (total costs of ownership)

• Technology:

  System software: LINUX, Oracle and open source middleware components

  Hardware: Rack mount or Tower servers, IBM xSeries, Fujitsu-Siemens or HP Servers

Logistics Hardware

• Core Features:

  We offer Turn-key solutions, delivering best-of-breed logistics hardware components. Cooperations with leading industry suppliers enables us to make full use of device capabilities, e.g. talking to many systems - and the right hardware experts - in native mode instead of heavily overloaded high level interfaces.

• Benefits:

  Turn-key solutions speed up project throughput and improves problem fixing in case of component malfunctions

• Technology:

  Mobile devices
  GSM/GPRS communication devices
  Data terminals
  Barcode laser scanners
  Transponder systems
  Label printing systems
  Automation systems
  Truck data systems
  Scales