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Skills and personality types that fit the logistics IT industry
To ensure a successful organisation with a positive -driven culture, suitable team members need to be employed. As IT departments and vendors serve as the backbone of most organisations, you need to be sure that your IT personnel are suited to your specific work...
Why IT and what can ‘it’ do for the freight industry?
The Old Order About two decades ago, most of the business processes undertaken in the freight industry were manual, except of course for accounting systems and possibly some workshop management. These two traditional ‘computerised’ areas had been handled by...
Logistics Software: Do It Yourself or Outsource?
About 15 years ago there were no commercially viable IT packages on the market and some of the larger companies who had the resources actually started developing IT packages in-house. At that time they had no other option. The time has come where the decision must now...
IT Implementation and Staff Buy-In – Dovetail/FleetWatch
Once the choice of your new IT package and supplier has been made, it is the actual implementation and the support of staff that is just as critical. Without the commitment of your staff to ensure that the new system works, it will be a much longer and costlier...
What to look for at the ‘heart’ of an IT package – Dovetails FleetWatch
Considering that your logistics software package will drive your business system, you need to carefully consider how the package should benefit your business before you invest in something that is good for a purpose, but will never be able to handle the long term load...
Ensuring Innovation through Collaboration
Dovetail Business Solutions will be attending and exhibiting at the Sapics Conference 2015 for the tenth year running, from May 31 to June 2, as part of an initiative to collaborate with all supply chain stakeholders and showcase its logistics software solutions....
Getting the optimum return from your IT investment – Dovetail/ FleetWatch
How best can you ensure your logistics software system is supplying the correct type and level of service you require? To do this, ask yourself: Is this what I expected and was promised by the supplier? Also, is it worth the investment and is it giving any return?...
Choosing an IT Partner – Dovetail/FleetWatch
Like a heart transplant, you need to trust the surgeon! Information Technology (IT) is right at the heart of your business. Its proper functioning has a direct impact on how healthy your profits are and just how much you stay in control. Now, if the ‘old ticker’...
SA’s Warehousing Conference 2015 a Colossal Success
For the fourth year running Dovetail Business Solutions hosted its annual Warehousing Conference in conjunction with its global partner HighJump-HighJump and enjoyed a full house with attendees gaining valuable insight into local and global warehousing opportunities,...
Transport Management – We Have What You Need
From our in-depth understanding of logistics, we have developed a suite of Supply Chain Management software solutions that control the management of the processes of moving and storing products between point of origin and point of use. This all-encompassing solution...
Conference Aims to Take a Look at Critical Issues in South African Warehousing
For the fourth year running the Warehousing Management Systems (WMS) Roadshow will take place in South Africa and aims to bring logistics industry stakeholders together to discuss critical issues and opportunities affecting the local warehousing industry. ...
Achieving Supply Chain Collaboration
To reap the benefits of true supply-chain collaboration, the involvement of software suppliers, product owners, the logistics companies and end customers are needed, states Dovetail Technical Director Reggie Pillay. Technology platforms that enable the sharing of...