Capital Equipment News February 2018

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Detlev Duve, MD of DACHSER South Africa.

Raising the logistics bar

In line with the global move towards the reconciliation of logistics and IT, better known as Cyber Physical Systems, DACHSER South Africa has revamped its entire IT platform. MD Detlev Duve reiterates that, to remain competitive, it is principal for logistics providers to leverage digital technology to deliver intelligent logistics, writes Munesu Shoko .

Munesu Shoko (MS): In its quest to drive intelligent logistics, last year DACHSER South Africa made a sizeable investment into its IT systems. Tell me more about the project. Detlev Duve (DD): DACHSER is a true proponent of digital processes. Logistics today is all about speed, agility, reliability,

versatility and visibility. In line with this approach, we revamped our entire IT platform at DACHSER South Africa. We restructured onto the global DACHSER operating system. We implemented a new accounting system, as well as a new email communication system. All these systems were implemented

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