Dear Members,
An Australian-owned and locally operated company, Porta have a rich history spanning over 70+ years proudly manufacturing and distributing a broad range of timber products using various local and imported certified timber species.
We take pride in being one of Australia’s leading suppliers of decorative timber products to the home improvement, building, trade and commercial sectors.
Porta is committed to sustainable and renewable operations, giving priority to sourcing timbers from certified sources and are backed by a team that is passionate about timber with expertise to meet your specific needs.
We are seeking feedback from within Best Practice Network in seeing how, a best practice despatch system looks.
The focus area is on the level of intervention required to despatch freight from the Porta warehouse management system (WMS) into a freight suppliers (carriers) IT system.
Porta is currently using Microlistics as our WMS, which has some broader usage in the logistics world.
Our ERP system is TIMMS which is a very bespoke timber industry system which would have very limited broader usage.
We are currently looking to update our ERP and WMS system and seeing what this should look like will assist in setting expectation for the new system as well as potentially providing the motivation to implement some shorter time frame improvements.
I am seeking information and contact with enterprises that are already down the path described above and particularly if “Mainfreight” happens to be your carrier.
I am also seeking the opportunity to visit a company that:
- Ships a reasonable volume of freight per day, eg.100 consignments.
- Has an automated system between their WMS and the freight providers system for connote creation.
We look forward to receiving feedback and guidance for us to consider and would welcome the opportunity to meet with you, where possible and further discuss and connect with members of Best Practice Network.
Your assistance is greatly appreciated.
Regards
Anthony Kerr
Strategic Procurement Manager
Porta, Heidelberg Rd, Fairfield, VIC