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The company I work for, www.stage3systems.com, builds logistical web apps for marine shipping and related industries - our software covers the full spectrum of
by acrooks 12y ago
The company I work for, www.stage3systems.com, builds logistical web apps for marine shipping and related industries - our software covers the full spectrum of the industry from vessel construction to port agency.
I've been at Stage 3 for about two years and it has been incredibly fascinating learning about the business from the inside. As efficient as they may appear, the day-to-day operations of the businesses within shipping are generally riddled with piles of paper documents and mountains of email. And we're trying to pivot their centuries-old workflows which is an incredibly eye-opening and difficult problem.
- chadk 12y agoMore power to you! I worked in fuel shipping and bunkering, and the fact that many times a day I had to haul a typewriter up 60ft of rope ladder to produce receipts to be signed by the captain/chief eng. because the only tech they trusted was CARBON PAPER in the year 2008 simply boggled!
- acrooks 12y agoI know, it just completely boggles the mind. One of the products I lead is based around agency operations - these guys are probably some of the heaviest paper pushers in the industry. And I'll walk into an office and see them creating them with typewriters, by hand, or slowly tapping away at their keyboard into Word, burning through a five-figure annual printer budget. A port call will involve a few dozen documents (B/Ls, customs forms, etc). One of the product modules effectively automates that and it's an incredible impact on their workload.
- macmac 12y agoSEDNA = MCS for the Web?