Logistics of a New Generation – How about that?

On the 20th of March 2014, as a part of Sofia LogExpo’s program, a seminar was held on the topic “Logistics of a New Generation”, organized by Team VISION Bulgaria in collaboration with Microsoft Bulgaria, Capital, FedEx, Bulgarian Logistics Association and Xolyd – a leader in the market for IT solutions for Logistics. Over 140 participants (managers of companies from different sectors and spedition and logistics specialists from all over Bulgaria) actively joined the discussion.
Renowned logistics experts led presentations and discussions on topics important for the business, such as the challenges for the logistics industry, good practices, trends and new vertical solutions for the Logistics.
The seminar was opened by Kristian Krastev, CEO at Flying Cargo Bulgaria (an official licensee of FedEx Express) and his description of the strategic framework for the future development of the intermodal transport in Bulgaria. Nikolay Dragomirov from the Bulgarian Logistics Association shared a few statistics and results from logistics researches that the Association has held recently in Bulgaria. The results were really interesting including information about logistics concepts, investments in this sector, percentage of a technical optimization in the sector, etc. After them Alexander Petkov, Operational Manager at Speedy, talked about challenges for this industry – economic, political and operational.
Two of the presentations were focused on customer’s loyalty and sales increasing using CRM systems. They were led by Milen Manchev from Microsoft and Orlin Donchev from Next Consult. Nadya Marinova – PR Manager at Auxionize.com, presented a recently launched innovative platform, which helps companies optimize their logistics expenses through an auction for transport orders.
Tom Young (a Partner at Xolyd) used his presentation time to share some of his experience with the audience and present LogiQstar – a solution based on Microsoft Dynamics ERP and Microsoft Dynamics CRM, but especially designed to meet the needs of providers of logistics services, specializing in cargo handling and multimodal forwarding. Team VISION Bulgaria is an exclusive partner of Xolyd for the region. LogiQstar provides maintenance of any kind of transport – rail, sea, air and road transport and transport of containers with all the specifics and associated processes and combined transportation.
“We made this seminar led by the idea to present the changes of the global trends for cost optimization in all kind of industries, the outsourcing of any processes (including logistics) and the increasing need on the logistics companies to be prepared for the changes in customer requirements. All changes at the global market demand enhancement at the technical optimization in order to improve the quality of the logistics services provided to the customers.” – commented Emilia Vasileva, CEO at Team VISION Bulgaria.