Zurich-Minsk, February 1, 2010. – International logistics holding AsstrA is getting ready to launch a new corporate information system based on Oracle solutions. This will allow improving business processes and get still closer to partners and customers.

Oracle is the leader in developing solutions for automating all spheres of modern business. At the same time, software products of this producer are used in transportation companies only partially, if at all. 
AsstrA launchs leader solutions to be one step ahead. The new system will speed up working with transportation orders and make information analysis more accurate. In the future, it will allow integrating with the systems of business partners. An Internet interface will give the customers an opportunity to monitor all order handling stages remotely in the future.

The first experience of launching Oracle solutions was successfully implemented in 2007 when AsstrA  used the WMS (Warehouse Management System) module, that is part of the Oracle E-Business Suite, in the Sofiyevskaya Borshchagovka logistics center for the first time. The company management approved the business plan on launching other Oracle solutions using own resources of the company in the end of 2008. 
The project has not entered the final stage. The introduction of the new Oracle-based system of transportation order management automation OTM (Oracle Transportation Management) and of the related Oracle E-Business Suite modules awaits the employees of AsstrA offices in Minsk and Brest in the second quarter of 2010.

The new OTM transportation order management system has a number of significant advantages facilitating the achievement of the ultimate result: improved order management process and integration with partner systems. On the one hand, the new system will allow forwarders to optimize their operations and to speed up the order handing process accordingly. On the other hand, ОТМ will give customers an chance to monitor order handing directly. At the same time, all data is firmly protected by a validated security system.

The new corporate information system will be based on ORACLE products:

• OTM (Oracle Transportation Management) - the system of transportation order management automation
• OEBS (Oracle E-Business Suite) – at the first stage the system includes a finance management module, HRMS (Human Resource Management System) – a personnel management module, OLM (Oracle Learning Management) module – a training management system, WMS (Warehouse Management System) – the system of warehouse management.
   

Launching a new corporate information system based on Oracle solutions means ascending to a new operating level in terms of quality,’’ says Dmitry Lagun, Member of the Board of Directors of AsstrA holding company. "The existing system cannot handle the increasing volume of information and number of orders. A corporate information system based on Oracle solutions will make it possible to speed up our operations significantly and provide more opportunities for AsstrA employees as well as partners and customers. We are launching a more advanced system for more advanced work”.

About Holding Company AsstrA AG:

AsstrA Associated Traffic AG was founded in 1993 in Zurich, Switzerland.
Nowadays AsstrA is an international holding company operating on the logistics services market. 

Company offices are located in 10 countries: Switzerland, Russia, the Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Poland, Italy, Germany and China. 800 employees provide services to more than 4,000 customers.  The liability of the company as a freight forwarder is insured by the insurance broker, Aktiv Assekuranz (Germany), with a 1,000,000 EUR limit per every insured accident. AsstrA shares the responsibility for the transportation harmful effect on the environment and puts every effort to minimize it from its side.

For more information, please contact
Head of the Promotion Department of AsstrA AG Holdiogn Company
by calling +375 17 217 77 87/88/89
or e-mailing your inquiry to pr@asstra.by.