PER Plus Logistics B.V.
is a logistics company based in Zevenbergen, near Breda in The Netherlands.
PER Plus specializes in the bulk transport of liquid chemicals, including hazardous
chemicals, in tank containers and “flexitanks” to and from locations all over the
world.
This can be a complex undertaking, involving liaising with haulage companies, shipping
lines, customs offices, collection and destination depots and, of course, the customer
and providing each with relevant documentation and information. Any one customer
order can involve several container loads, each of which may need to be collected,
loaded, moved, cleaned and returned between multiple locations. Each order then
has to be billed to the customer which can involve individually charging per container
load for loading, returns or additional costs pertaining to the entire order.
Detail from the Tanks form.
To do this I spent time talking to the PER Plus team, learning about the business,
their procedures and many essential details of transport logistics. A prototype
application (based on a Microsoft SQL Server database) was ready pretty quickly,
and then we spent time refining it, adding and adjusting features and testing the
end result. PER Plus went live with the application in early 2009. It’s been at
the core of their day-to-day business since and enabled their processes to meet
with ease the requirements for continued ISO 9001 certification. Regular updates
in the meantime have added functionality and improved ease-of-use.