{"id":3624,"date":"2012-09-21T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2012\/09\/21\/taking-the-whole-terminal-view\/"},"modified":"2012-09-21T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T09:30:00","slug":"taking-the-whole-terminal-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2012\/09\/21\/taking-the-whole-terminal-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking the whole terminal view"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe TOS is becoming much more of a strategic solution able to work as a seamless extension of ERP\/core business systems, and able to handle wider aspects of terminal management like warehousing and resourcing. This would be as part of a portcentric supply chain operation where you have distribution centres and logistics hubs also on the port estate instead of inland,\u201d says Central Systems&#8217; Julian Wright.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn such a case, warehousing and resource management is fully integrated with container and breakbulk management, enabling port operators to offer an end-to-end supply chain solution that stretches from quayside to the customer&#8217;s door.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And adds Andy Barons of Navis: \u201cTOS will continue to head towards optimising the entire terminal, from equipment utilisation to labour rostering as well as other critical terminal functions rather than just specific parts such as the yard or gate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEventually the development of programs, systems, equipment and devices to enhance operating efficiencies, improve management controls and business intelligence in the terminals will also help connect marine terminals with the wider supply chain and perhaps play a larger role in supporting the global supply chain.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The longer term future of operating systems will leave no terminal stone unturned, according to developers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-container-cargo-handling"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3624"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}