Colchester firm Wallis Shipping Services and its IT division, Dominion, has just received a DTI SMART award of £45,000 to carry out crucial development work to its export management software ‘Exportease’.

Dominion is one of 14 Essex companies to receive a SMART award in 2002. The award will be used by Dominion, based on the Severall's Business Park, to carry out a feasibility study into developing a supply chain solution for importers and exporters. The programme will enable companies to have accurate information about where each of their orders are at any moment in time. It means that a firm can monitor all aspects of its supply chain by the touch of a button rather than wading through paperwork and relying on people's memory.

Director of Dominion, Paul Lasky, said: "We are thrilled with this SMART award from the DTI. We have already established a need in the industry to physically track orders through the supply chain. We shall look at creating a multilingual interrogating system that has the capability of extracting information at any time during the shipping process.

"Dominion intend 'Exportease' to be a web based solution that will use the very latest in global technology to ensure cargoes can be tracked anywhere in the world.

More information on this software can be found at www.exportease.com

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