The 4PL model means managing a company’s entire logistics strategy, rather than just transporting products from A to B. TSI simplifies this model by managing transport and logistics. Your profits are what matters most and TSI aligns to this by offering you a platform to change the way you do business without costing you more.
TSI effortlessly lets you manage your current service providers. We operate transparently, offering back to back invoicing with no hidden costs – ultimately allowing you to focus on your core business.
Our system takes the guessing out of logistics: you always know immediately who is responsible for any additional cost, including detention, demurrage and storage and interrogates the where, when and how of your shipment along the logistics chain.
We have saved companies millions of Rand’s. But that’s not what we see as the key to our success. Instead, we put our focus in our passion for logistics; our dedication to every single client, no matter how big or small, and our commitment to ensuring that we deliver timeously on our promises – it’s about passion, knowledge, understanding and service.
Innovation through knowledge, resulted in one software system, developed and tested to perfection…
We believe in excellence, it’s our quest for a superior, cost-effective service, the company developed a software system that combines decades of logistics experience with current international best practice, which is linked into multiple service provider systems within the logistic chain, for example:
- The “Track-and-trace” system of the Ports Authority – allowing TSI to do live tracking of containers from the time it enters the port through to collection, and manages exports in the same way, in reverse.
- The road and rail transport network, allowing it to monitor the delivery of containers.
Clear Case for Outsourcing.
The preferred means in our market to access the TSI service is through implementation of our system as your own Operational Control Centre (OCC) as a business unit. This unit will reduce the resources devoted to logistics tracking, while guaranteeing a superior transport service and maintaining profitability through:
- Ensuring improved efficiency
- Maximising profits (group deals, 100% accurate charge-outs)
- Freeing up resources and consolidating admin functions
- Improving customer service
- Back-to-back invoicing – transparency in our billing process: we do not add-on to any service provider’s invoice.
Benefits:
- Logistics service providers- OCC gives logistics service providers the opportunity to offer our service as a value-add to their clients, thus enhancing customer retention.
- End customers – OCC gives importer-exporters the eagle-eye vision they need to follow their shipment wherever it is, cutting out multiple costs along the way. In both cases it frees up and consolidates administration resources and refocuses your business on core activities, allowing you to channel investment in more profitable activities.
Whether you want the power of our OCC system on your servers or prefer TSI to deliver a remote service to you, you will always be on the cutting edge of technology with regular updates. You will also enjoy the peace of mind of a dedicated outsourced service integrating into any SAP, Oracle or standard SQL Server system, always keeping you up to speed with your shipment.
With OCC you get:
- A live link into the Transnet National Ports Authority system
- A link into Spoornet’s track-and-trace system
- Links into hauliers’ control systems
- Daily reporting
- Event-driven system functionality
- Automatic event escalation
- Demurrage and storage managements (avoid unnecessary storage charges due to information inefficiencies),
- Pipeline transparency,
- Security – all containers are clamped, trucks are fitted with satellite tracking, cabs are filmed,
- Specialised transport compliance such as hazardous cargo, bonded carrier, break bulk cargo, raw material packing, and minerals packing and management.
For more information visit www.4pl.co.za
By Clifford Blackburn – CEO TSI
