Europa Air & Sea, based in Minworth, Birmingham, has boosted its IT infrastructure, by developing a new in-house export and import customer-facing software
LeoSea has been created by the freight services firm to improve efficiencies, increase accuracy, and reduce paperwork in the business.
Initially focused on export bookings, once the roll-out is complete later this year Europa expect LeoSea to provide an improved customer interface.
This is the latest stage of evolution of Europa’s bespoke IT system called “Leonardo”.
The sophisticated system provides in-house control to improve responsiveness, efficiency, productivity, and scalability.
The first phase of Leonardo, LeoRoad, was launched in 2016 focusing on road freight operations and continuous software developments continue to drive improvements in operations, processes and communications.
Europa has already launched 10 different Leonardo modules deployed across the operation from road freight to finance.
LeoSea took six months to develop by Europa’s in-house team, and has already improved booking shipment speeds and accuracy by 30 per cent.
IT director at Europa, Richard Litchfield (pictured), who has lead the Leonardo project from conception to implementation with his team of 25 in-house IT experts, said: “This is another exciting launch for Europa and the next logical extension to the Leonardo suite, which continues to add tangible benefits to the business wherever it is implemented”
Richard added: “It is extremely rewarding to see the Leonardo suite continue to evolve and contribute to the growth and overall success of the business.”
Europa Worldwide Group is the leading independent logistics firm featured in The Sunday Times Top Track 250 2020 list.
