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DSVDirect puts power in customers’ hands

Courtesy Southern Africa’s Freight News

THE DEMAND for courier services is increasing to use and parcels can be tracked all the way to
exponentially as the impact of COVID-19 continues final delivery.
to reshape the way people live and work. And DSV Courier specialises in delivering small
importantly, convenience and safety are major parcels. The vehicles travel more than 4 million
considerations when it comes to choosing a courier kilometres each month as they collect and deliver
service. 1.8 million parcels from and to more than 1,600
DSVDirect has a pay-by-credit card online towns across southern Africa. DSV Courier o ers
service for those who don’t have an account – and four services: Economy, Express, Same Day and
the service o ers two options, DSV Locker and Cross Border.
DSV Courier. The DSV Locker is an any-time courier The process is customer friendly. You log onto
option with around 400 lockers strategically an easy-to-use platform, similar to many online
located at Engen service stations around the shopping platforms. You follow the prompts, fill in
country. The DSV Locker has many advantages, the details needed to make the delivery possible,
including convenience and safety. They’re also easy and then you can pay by credit card. •

Imperial enhances its digital supply chain offering

Courtesy Crown Publications

IMPERIAL HAS announced that Vitalliance, its joint visibility, planning, decision-making and
venture with technology provider One Network execution based on real-time analytics. It also
Enterprises, has been selected to steward the assists clients in tracking orders and third-party
OpenLMIS platform serving nine countries in Africa. partners involved in the healthcare supply chain
OpenLMIS is a leading electronic logistics at a fraction of the cost of legacy systems. The
management information system (LMIS) purpose- integration of this control tower with OpenLMIS
built to manage public health supply chains in low- has the potential for creating the largest
and middle-income countries, including Angola, connected healthcare network in Africa. •
Benin, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Malawi,
Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia.
This partnership will also augment OpenLMIS
through new service tiers that o er good
capabilities and services, which will further its
ability to reduce stockout rates and enable health
workers to provide better patient care. One of
these service tiers includes the integration of
One Network’s industry-leading control tower
with OpenLMIS to bring end-to-end supply chain
visibility and coordinated planning from the point
of care to global distributors and manufacturers.
A healthcare control tower provides multiparty

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