http://www.thedigitalship.com/conferences/2006/displaynews.asp?NewsID=2119

During this conference some of the topics to be presented will be:

• The Role of KPIs in Today’s Shipping Companies: An Exercise
• The KPI Project: History & Objectives
• PIs, KPIs & SPIs. A How & Why Interactive Session: Which PIs & KPIs do Delegates Use?
• Sponsor Presentation
• The User Experience
• IMKE – A Live Demonstration
• KPI Ratings: The Mathematical Foundation of Benchmarking
• Shipping Performance Indexes: How Balanced Are We?
• Implementation Strategy: Which Hurdles to Expect & How to Overcome These
• What Are We Missing?
• An Interactive Session
• Outlook: How Can You Get Involved?

References:

• 2nd Intermanager Regional Conference: The Shipping KPI Standard – Agenda

On the second day of the conference Markus Schmitz, SOFTImpact’s Managing Director and Kuba Szymanski, Secretary General of InterManager will be discussing “KPI Benchmarking for the Industry”

References:

• Digital Ship Hamburg – 1 & 2 February 2012

Concluding a six-year development phase, which was completed in June 2011, InterManager’s extensive Shipping KPI Project is ready to be rolled out. The launch of the project at the IMO in London has highlighted some of the major the challenges and benefits of establishing an international standard for performance measurement in ship operation

To read the full article go to Digital Ship September magazine pages 38-39

References:

• Digital Ship Magazine – September 2011 Issue – pages 38-39

Following an introduction from InterManager President Alastair Evitt, presentations from Svein Sorlie, Chairman of the KPI Steering Group, George Hoyt, Chairman of InterManager’s KPI Committee, Harald Sleire from Marintek and Markus Schmitz from software developer Soft Impact explained the project’s progress and future plans to a packed audience of invited guests and IMO delegates.

The Shipping KPI Project is an industry-wide initiative which proposes a global shipping industry standard for defining, measuring and reporting information on operational performance in order to boost performance improvements internally in companies engaged in ship operation activities and provide an efficient communication platform about ship operation performance information to internal and external stakeholders through increased transparency.

Svein Sorlie told guests: “The standard developed by the Project for measurement of operational performance is already widely recognised as a ‘de facto’ industry standard”.

Outlining how the KPI “Repository” will collect and present the data, Markus Schmitz explained that the data stored will be strictly confidential and only aggregated (averages) information will be displayed to ensure individual companies or ships cannot be identified. Mr Schmitz demonstrated the benefits of the KPI Project to ship managers, highlighting how the system will advise subscribers when their inputted data reveals their performance has fallen below the industry averages. More detailed analysis is then possible to identify problem areas.

George Hoyt advised guests that the whole Shipping KPI Project is a not-for-profit industry-wide initiative which will be overseen by the newly-established KPI Purpose Trust. InterManager is seeking industry stakeholders to become trustees and InterManager Executive Committee members have pledged their financial support to the project until April 2014.

Alastair Evitt, InterManager President, praised all the InterManager members and industry stakeholders involved in the Project and thanked them for their continuing commitment to raising standards throughout the global shipping world.

References:

• Published: InterManager, June 27, 2011: Shipping Industry Joins InterManager For KPI Milestone

References:

• Published: Digital Ship – Announcement Gardline, May 07, 2010: http://www.thedigitalship.com/conferences/cyprus/cyp_2011.shtml
• Published: Digital Ship – April 2011 Monthly Issue: Digital_Ship_Cyprus_Report_2011_Conference_Report

References:

• Published: Digital Ship – Announcement Gardline, May 07, 2010: http://www.thedigitalship.com/conferences/2006/displaynews.asp?NewsID=1096
• Published: Digital Ship – June/July 2010 Monthly Issue PAGE 22: Digital Ship JunJul10

References:

• http://www.thedigitalship.com/conferences/cyprus/cyp_about10.shtml
• Published: Digital Ship – April 2010 Monthly Issue PAGE 20-24: How to implement ERP

We provide our customers innovative technology and innovative services. We help to ensure that our system integrations accurately reflect a company’s most current organizational structure, business practices and operational procedures.

™Seanique is SOFTimpact’s ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) Solution for the Maritime Industry, namely ship owning and ship management companies. ™Seanique consists of a range of modules like ™Seanique crew manager, ™Seanique fleet manager, ™Seanique financial manager.

With the globalization of markets creating tougher competition and compliance regulations, organizations more than ever require solutions that help employees improve operations. Certainly, in the maritime industry, the need has never been greater. The level of flexibility is crucial in a maritime world where vessels travelling across oceans need to comply with different regulations and requirements in different countries. Country-specific specs are added to ensure solutions meet national, legal, regulatory, and business-practice requirements. Customer relationships are usually the first to suffer when managers are unable to supply accurate data, especially in a highly competitive global industry such as maritime. To deliver the right business management software, SOFTimpact chose to develop solutions based on the Microsoft Business Solution Dynamics™ AX platform.

In 2008, SOFTimpact signed a contract with Seacor Marine to implement Seanique 4.0 in the UK and Dubai to cater their shipping business. Crew functionality to be implemented in Dubai for Dubai and WAF(West Africa) crewing activities, due to go live in March 2009. Miracle Dynamics UK specific Payroll functionality combined with ™Seanique, will deliver a complete Dynamics AX solution that will serve the Crewing and Payroll functions of the UK office which requires UK specific localization functionality based on the latest legislation changes and due to go live in April 2009.

The Seanique crew manager will help the users view, manage and analyze the ongoing processes of crew management. Key features include seafarer personal data, unified document management system, certificates and appraisals, contracts management, travel requests, P & I cases management, graphical rotation planning, assignments compliance checks, wage scales and bonus management, automated payroll run, comprehensive reporting etc. The familiarity of Microsoft-based technology means less of a learning curve for the users, so they can get up and running quickly and focus on what’s most important. Also, helps the Seacor Marine meet today’s key challenges with users delivering new key business process efficiencies, strengthening business relationships, and reducing costs.

Additionally a number of different interfaces to other related systems have been developed to further automate processes, ensure accuracy and eliminate data double entry. These include the interface to the existing accounting package, interface to the travel management system, interface to the bank etc.

Business innovation is a continuous process and as Marine organizations face the constant challenge of keeping pace with changes within the maritime industry ™Seanique will help our customers meet this challenge.

References:

• Published: Seacor International Safety and Operations Magazine Issue 1 2009 – Africa, Middle East and Asia called “Lighthouse” Article – Page 42: Seanique the New Seacor Crewing Management System – Seanique is SOFTimpact’s vertical ERP Solution for the Maritime Industry