The Team's Board Report - Mainfreight
The Team's Board Report - Mainfreight
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Australian Telco Migration - Michael Hood<br />
Well it’s been a couple years in the<br />
making, but we have finally finished<br />
the big migration away from<br />
Macquarie Telecom to Gen-i.<br />
<strong>The</strong> first part of the project started<br />
in October 2009 when we migrated<br />
the data network across to Gen-i<br />
saving the business around $45k<br />
per month and increasing the<br />
speed of some important links.<br />
<strong>The</strong> second stage included<br />
migrating hundreds of phone<br />
SPOTLIGHT ON TECHNOLOGY<br />
iPhone Application –<br />
Anthony Barrett<br />
We launched our initial iPhone<br />
application late last year. It is<br />
designed for customers to have<br />
access to:<br />
numbers, phone lines and mobile<br />
handsets across to Gen-i. This<br />
occurred during September and<br />
October this year and we expect<br />
some great additional savings with<br />
this move.<br />
Whilst many people have<br />
experienced the pain of moving<br />
their single home telephone line<br />
when moving into a new house,<br />
co-ordinating hundreds of business<br />
grade line moves is not for the<br />
faint-hearted and I think the before<br />
and after photos of Darrel from the<br />
IT Team clearly show the toll it has<br />
taken.<br />
With the devices all up and running<br />
a lot of hard background work now<br />
gets underway. Your accounts team<br />
will be learning new systems,<br />
reconciling thousands of pages of<br />
invoicing and dealing with new<br />
innovations that include the ability<br />
for your Gen-i branch costs to be<br />
emailed out to each individual<br />
branch.<br />
• Tracking of consignment notes,<br />
containers and shipments<br />
across all our systems<br />
(Maintrak, Aus-trak, CargoWise<br />
NZ/AU/Asia/USA). It basically<br />
gives customers the same<br />
functionality as logging into our<br />
website (www.mainfreight.com)<br />
and allows tracking of more than<br />
one delivery<br />
• Maintrak and Austrak Push<br />
notifications. This is where<br />
customers can request to be<br />
alerted when their freight is<br />
delivered<br />
• Mainchain login. This gives our<br />
customers access to additional<br />
receiver details in Maintrak and<br />
Austrak. In the future it could be<br />
used for quoting and viewing<br />
PODs<br />
• Find a branch. This allows<br />
customers to search for<br />
branches and contacts at any<br />
<strong>Mainfreight</strong> branch worldwide.<br />
<strong>The</strong> information provided is that<br />
which is contained in branch<br />
contacts on our website.<br />
<strong>The</strong>refore it is critical that<br />
branch data is kept up to date!<br />
<strong>The</strong> application is available for free<br />
on the iTunes store – just search for<br />
<strong>Mainfreight</strong>.<br />
<strong>Mainfreight</strong> Maadi Cup – Brett Horgan<br />
In March the Maadi Cup (National<br />
School Rowing Championship)<br />
Regatta was held at Lake Karapiro<br />
and some of our team were there<br />
as part of our sponsorship of the<br />
event to talk about careers with the<br />
<strong>Mainfreight</strong> Group. <strong>The</strong> team were<br />
armed with iPads and a purpose<br />
built web application, to collect<br />
details from these kids who could<br />
well be the next generation of<br />
<strong>Mainfreight</strong> team members.<br />
What was great about this site was<br />
the way it came into being. <strong>The</strong><br />
team planning the event saw an<br />
opportunity to impress and when<br />
they came to IT with the idea they<br />
had a very clear picture of what<br />
they needed: data collection, but<br />
on a cool device and looking cool<br />
to show that <strong>Mainfreight</strong> is ahead<br />
of the pack and more than just<br />
trucks.<br />
<strong>Report</strong>s back from the team are<br />
that this was very well received and<br />
made a great talking point. Now it’s<br />
got us all thinking of what else we<br />
can do with it.