Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 22 | Page 15

NEWS Trackmatic wins gold at Logistics Achiever Awards ceremony Improve Delivery Efficiency and Customer Service for Coricraft. The LAA awards recognises professionalism and excellence in the effective application of strategic, tactical and operational logistics and supply chain management principles, concepts and practices in Southern Africa. It encourages all companies and organisations to review, evaluate, and upgrade their current logistics and supply chain management practices. David Slotow, CEO of Trackmatic I n a gala ceremony at the iconic 30- year Logistics Achiever Awards (LAA), Trackmatic received a Gold Award for Developing Innovative Technology to software solutions that address longstanding industry challenges and continuously push the boundaries of what is possible. “Our technology is centred around providing critical data and insight to empower clients to address the right operational levers needed to radically improve last mile efficiencies and enhance customer delight. It’s not what we do for our clients, but what our clients can do for their customers that drives our passion.” “We are honoured to win this prestigious Gold Award,” said David Slotow, CEO of Trackmatic. “Being recognised as a trailblazer in the logistics world is an incredible achievement,” says David Slotow, CEO of Trackmatic. “Our success is attributed to our co-creative partnership with Coricraft over the last four years. We seek opportunities to turn logistics on its head by finding unconventional ///////////////// Demonstration Day held to take Namibian biomass industry forward T he first Biomass Technology Demonstration Day has taken place to showcase the current solutions to the bush encroachment problem in Namibia and take the Namibian biomass industry forward. Namibia Biomass Industry Group (N-BiG) General Manager Colin Lindeque says the event was attended by over 400 people and comprised a diverse group of representatives from the biomass sector including harvesters, producers, communal farmers, commercial farmers, members of the public and mature and young entrepreneurs. The full day of technology demonstrations showcased over 33 technologies from 29 exhibitors and over 15 live demonstrations. This included technology for bush-to-animal feed, firewood, woodchips, retort charcoal, compressed firewood, manual harvesting, semi-mechanised harvesting, fully-mechanised harvesting and drones. www.intelligentcio.com “One truth in Namibia is that seeing is believing,” said Lindeque. “Many farmers see brochures and videos, but they do not believe it until they can see it in action. That is what this event is about, we tried to bring together the farmers, SMEs and entrepreneurs to dispose of the brochures and sales talks to see the equipment in action for themselves.” Lindeque added that the aim was to support improved linkages among those with the biomass and entrepreneurs offering the services and technologies in Namibia as well as in neighbouring countries. “The Paratus mobile VSAT Solution was brilliant,” he said. “The organising team used it throughout the event to upload live videos, communicate and access the Internet.” INTELLIGENTCIO 15