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Summary

Data and System Planning (DSP) provides worldwide IT solutions and business operation consultancy taking advantage of its specialised and proven know-how in informatics technologies applied to the shipping industry, port and terminal management and intermodal transportation.

In recent years DSP has enlarged its portfolio activities, offering to the market professional services in terminal operations processes and systems deployment with optimisation.

DSP’s expertise is also addressed to terminal simulation, automation, reporting and business intelligence, software development, SAP management, locations systems, RDT, Wi-Fi and integration of TOS with different systems like GOS, ERP and Billing.

DSP is a NAVIS service solutions implementation partner since 2007 with a certified team of operational experts in container terminals.

In January 2016 DSP entered into the Navis N4 Extensions Certification Program, allowing the team to provide system integration, implementation, advanced configuration, go-live and post go-live services and support.

The DSP partnership with NAVIS focuses on SPARCS N4 and SPARCS Advanced Applications (Prime Route, Expert Decking and AutoStow) implementation including project management, configuration, training, go live and post go live assistance.

DSP has completed over 40 successful TOS projects worldwide: Durban, Haifa, Namibia, Cagliari, Piraeus, Wilhelmshaven, Genoa, Rijeka, Gioia Tauro, Abu Dhabi, PD Ports, Caucedo, Manila, Poti, London Gateway, Trieste, Hong Kong, Le Havre, Maaskvlate, Lazaro Cardenas.

Contact Details

Via Cantonale 38

Manno

6928

Switzerland

Natalie Ravano

nathalie.ravano@dspservices.ch

Operations Consultancy

DSP consultants assist with maritime and logistics businesses to assess the current status of internal procedures and strategies, and enhance the overall operation of the company.

DSP’s competency ranges from working procedures and ROI evaluation to state of the art surveying and system tuning and optimisation. The business process analysis and design helps the customer to assess, optimise and make strategic decisions in order to improve their business.

As the first Navis certified partner DSP has been able to expand professionally mainly due to the wide network and the many varied projects they have successfully completed.

Business Process Analysis and Design (BPM)
Audit of current operations to support management strategy
Systems tuning and optimisation
Working procedures, job description
ROI evaluation of innovation projects
Project Audit

BILLIT

DSP Terminal Billing System applies to Container, General Cargo and RoRo terminal services and it provides the following:

Tariff Management
Automatic/Manual Invoicing of Vessel operations
Automatic/Manual Storage
Automatic/Manual Terminal Auxiliary Services
Credit Notes
EDIFACT INVOICE

Reporting and Business Intelligence

DSP offers a robust approach to the business intelligence challenge scaling the project accordingly to the needs of the customer and help the Terminal to tailor the best solution in terms of investments and strategy.

Our consultants will help you to get the most from the powerful native N4 reporting capability, plug in NAVIS BI or enhance independently your data mining with Microsoft SQL reporting services and Microsoft Power BI.

DSP is not selling a product but a solution, with the aim of enabling the Terminal to further maintain and develop their own reports and dashboard.

Kalmar SmartPort Implementations

DSP has all the skills needed to support the client in the choice of the technology for the definition of the best solution for automation.

Thanks to this important strategic agreement, DSP is now able to assist its customers on a wider range of services, including automated yard inventory (SmartStack), automated job stepping (SmartPath), and automated gantry steering for rubber tyred gantry cranes (SmartRail).

DSP has been working for the fully automated terminal APM Terminals’ Maasvlakte II, the port that will set a new global standard in automated and environmentally sustainable terminal operations. DSP has provided BPM, N4 configuration, berth and rail automation and has helped create the interface with TBA/Inform.

Software Development for Shipping Industry by Data and System Planning (DSP)

DSP software solutions are the outcome of the synergy between its specialised and proven know-how in the shipping industry, port and terminal management, intermodal transportation and a deep technical expertise.

We work with a wide selection of technologies, and achieve quality results with clearly defined methodologies and a structured approach to deliver capable, secure and reliable software solutions specific to client requirements.

We work closely with our clients to deliver global IT solutions that satisfy business goals and seamlessly interface with existing, often complex infrastructure, systems and data. The perfect integration of our products with the TOS system assures benefits to the terminal operator as productivity improves and operative costs reduce.

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Navis N4 Implementation Services for Shipping Industry by Data and System Planning (DSP)

The extensive operational experience gained by DSP in 30 years of activity in the shipping industry makes the DSP team the best choice for supporting the Terminal Operators in all the phases of the Terminal Operating System implementation.

DSP, first Navis service solutions implementation partner, provides an end to end TOS support based on the deep seated knowledge of the maritime business helping its customers to reduce costs and get the best from their TOS from the configuration to the go live phase with innovative technologies.

DSP has been able to mature professionally due to the many projects that have been completed successfully.

Our N4 implementation support provides the following services:

Project Management and Administration
Data migration
Installation and Configuration
Product Training
Go-Live assistance
Operations Shadowing
First line Maintenance & Support (case management, patches release, tests)
NAVIS SPARCS Advanced application tuning, monitoring and continuous improvement
Instruction and best practice release
Update on innovative technologies (RDT, GPS, RFID, OCR, eSeal)
EDI configuration
Field Development (reports, groovy, variforms, state model)

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Navis N4 Extensions for Container Terminal Operations by Data and System Planning (DSP)

Since January 2016 DSP entered into the Navis N4 Extensions Certification Program.

DSP provides development services to enhance the N4 suite to match terminal specific requirements through the standard extensions hooks of the product.

N4 APIs and groovy allows the terminal to configure the product with the use of code injection, making it possible for terminal operators to support an unlimited variety of processes, integrations and business rules specific to their individual business needs, including but not limited to Gate, operations, EDI, Customs, Rail, Reporting, Billing ECN4 and N4 Mobile

Through extensions you can enlarge the scope itself of your TOS and enable the test and understanding of automation business case before actual implementation of external systems, through emulation:

Gate automation
ASC Manager interface
Crane OCR

Thanks to the Extensions Certification Program, DSP is now working closely with the Navis’ technical services team and allowed to deliver certified groovy code extensions, release notes and use cases in the “Navis Standard”.

Validated code will give the Terminal the opportunity to decide to register the groovy code under the Navis maintenance and support program.

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Navis N4 Maintenance and Support by Data and System Planning (DSP)

Since 2014, DSP is the first support partner of NAVIS and part of the NAVIS support organisation.

DSP consultants will be your first point of contact helping in replicating the case, answering your questions and providing you, where possible with immediate workarounds.

If you choose DSP as implementation partner, our consultants can support you after go live and ensure a smooth transition to the post implementation phase with support, having knowledge of your operations and business cases.

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