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Integrating ERP & TMS – Why Your Business Needs Both?
For the past three decades, ERP Or Enterprise Resource Planning Systems have been evolving into large scale systems upon which most modern enterprises operate. Without an ERP system, these enterprises would practically cease to exist. ERP systems are ubiquitous,...
Advantages of Cloud-Based Warehouse Management System
As a warehousing company or a company with warehousing operations, you cannot ignore the transformation that business technology can bring. In fact, your current dependence on a WMS or Warehouse Management System is proof of just how important it is to move from...
Top Supply Chain & Logistics Trends to Look Out for in 2019
We’ve only stepped into the year 2019, and it might seem way too early to make predictions about the Supply Chain and Logistics market. However, as the old adage goes, the early bird gets the worm. So, staying ahead of trends is a smart move. Globalization has...
AMAZING NEWS! Dovetail Has Been Awarded The Namibian Nampost Courier Tender
Dovetail is proud to announce that we have been awarded the Namibian Nampost Courier tender for the implementation of the FreightWare TMS, MobileControl ePOD and eDocs software solutions. Nampost Courier has a network with over 140 postal centres across Namibia and...
Transport Management Systems Blueprint: Definition, Benefits & Top Options
A Transport Management System, otherwise known as “TMS”, is a platform part of Supply Chain Management focusing on transport logistics. This aspect of SCM deals with the planning, execution and optimization of the physical movement of goods. In other words, it’s a...
Infographic – 8 Benefits of Using a Transportation Management Provider
If your business is at a point of considering outsourcing a 3PL provider or rather, a transportation management provider, see how 3PL can deliver significant benefits in the following 8 ways. Dovetail’s FreightWare Transport Management Software Solution is a...
What Is Logistics? All You Need To Know About Logistics Management
Logistics is widely known as the process of coordinating and moving resources such as equipment, food, liquids, inventory, materials and people from one location to the storage of the desired destination. It was originally a military-based term that was used to...
Warehouse Management Software – What It Is & Why Your Warehouse Needs It
Warehouse management is by far one of the most extensive and complicated processes in business. Handling tasks such as equipment maintenance to inventory control and distribution optimization proves that warehouse management is crucial for any warehouse business....
Third-Party Logistics 101: Your Complete 3PL Guide
Third-Party Logistics, commonly known as 3PL or TPL, is a term used in logistics and supply chain management and refers to the outsourcing of a company’s distribution and fulfilment elements. “3PL” was a term first used in the early 1970s in order to identify...
Intelligent Enterprise: What It Is and How It Can Inspire Manufacturing Turnaround
A recent study revealed that 66% of warehouses have plans to expand their technology investments by the end of 2018. We are currently in a technology transformation age that is driven by the amalgamation of global mobile connectivity, computing on demand via the cloud...
Route Optimisation Software
Route Optimisation SoftwareDovetail’s Warehouse Management System acts as the hub of your supply chain solution, integrating accounting/order and shipping software systems, electronic data interchange (EDI) systems, radio frequency and barcode hardware, and warehouse...
Driving Supply Chain Successes
Dovetail is a niche software provider to the transport and warehousing industry, and has, since inception, been selling transport and warehouse management software (WMS and TMS) to companies in South Africa and various other African states. Its services also extend to...