Transport

Stem Systems support several clients in the haulage, road transport and freight forwarding industries. Given their always-on, interconnected nature, these organisations require a resilient IT infrastructure to underpin their operations and keep goods moving.

Server downtime or a broadband outage even for an afternoon is just not an option. We lean on Microsoft Azure particularly in this field, enabling operators to be always-on, readily available from any location and to be free of this single point of failure.

This Azure infrastructure often links to various other server platforms and services, such as job booking portals, web-based tracking and data interchange with forwarders/partner firms.  Our IT solutions run many of leading freight management software platforms in use across UK and Ireland today.

Many transport operators partner with other logistics firms to extend their serviceable base. In every case partner firms utilise EDI (Electronic Document Interchange) to exchange manifests on a daily basis with shipping and collection details, service levels etc for onward processing. With many disparate software platforms in use throughout the industry, bespoke development work is often required to enable these systems to interact.

Stem Systems integrate many disparate transport software systems and manifest file formats to allow logistics firms to exchange with their partners. We write custom software with Microsoft C# or build customised workflows with Power Automate and other scripting methodologies to process what can be dozens or hundreds of jobs per day.

We carefully scope out field mappings and liaise with third party software vendors of sending and receiving firms to test and build an integration piece. Partners expose API’s or may send XML and CSV files, require FTP or SFTP connectivity or want direct SQL database access – our networking and hosting background gives us the know-how for interconnecting any number of these different environments.