Kallipr x MachShip Customer Spotlight

Kallipr are experts in remote monitoring IoT solutions, specialising in Water, Mining, Rail, and Gas industries. It’s primarily a distribution company that launched a new ERP back in May 2024, as told by Operations Manager Andreas Trikoulas.

“We were using an old freight management system, probably for the last 20 years. Super outdated and super old. And as we implemented the new ERP, we also implemented MachShip,” he said.

“We’ve been using MachShip the last 4-5 months now, but have been heavily involved with the implementation team for about a year.”

“We went through the tender process. So, we had 4 or 5 different freight management systems presented to us,” Trikoulas said. “The thing that stood out with MachShip was the vendor integration side. The volume of vendors and freight companies that MachShip was integrated with. Pricing was obviously pretty competitive. They were probably the two main factors. And, of course, the UI/UX side of things as well.” “The UX is super impressive. It’s very simple to use. Really easy to navigate. It’s flexible and does a lot of the things you need it to do. MachShip is definitely doing an amazing job on that side — specifically with some of the more complex things that we have to do.”

“The main feature that’s been a lifesaver is the ability to send tracking links back to customers. That’s not something we had the ability or access to do before. Now, we have MachShip pass all that information back into our system, which we then send out to the customer.” “So, customers having real-time tracking when we’re dispatching goods — that’s been game-changing. We’ve had a lot of positive feedback about that. It also just makes our life easier because we’re not getting the amount of return calls that we would have, asking ‘Where’s my package? Did it get dispatched?’ Etc.” “One of the biggest things we didn’t have with our old freight management system was a lot of the reconciliation capabilities that MachShip provides. The automated rate cards updating, the ability to input an invoice from one of the freight companies, and then have MachShip tell you where there’s a variance. That’s saving us a lot of time because that was previously a manual activity.” “But I think just the more expensive carriers that we can actually use now are helping a lot. Previously, we had 2 or 3 onboarded that we had integrations with. But a lot of our outbound logistics were done directly through the supplier portals. So, we would have to log into StarTrack, for example, raise a consignment and put the information back in our system. That’s all fully automated end-to-end at the moment, which is great.”

”A lot of the work we did was with James from the implementation team. Honestly, that was a breath of fresh air, given how complex ERP implementations can be. We were quite delayed from an overall project perspective because of other complexities. But one of the things that was great was that I didn’t have any reservations or failure points with the MachShip team. Every time I’d send through a question, it was answered really quickly.” “They would fix little bugs and defects that we had. So we were able to continue testing with the overall project without being bottlenecked by MachShip at all. On larger projects, typically, you find a lot of bottlenecks where you’re dependent on an external integration or a vendor. With MachShip, if we had an issue, we’d just send it through. And within 12 hours it was solved — which was really nice, because I almost didn’t have to worry about it.” “Any time something isn’t working as expected, I’ll still raise those support tickets with the team. We haven’t had many front-end support tickets on the integration side. Everything has worked quite smoothly. The only thing I’ve had to raise I think since launching is if a carrier isn’t enabled, how do we do that? Or if a user’s access isn’t working. And when it comes to those basic queries, they’re resolved quickly.” “Overall, the engagement model that MachShip has. If you ask a question, you don’t wait three days to get an answer. You get an acknowledgement. You hear back within 12 hours. That was really easy and really simple.”