Recent surveys of logistics professionals have, unsurprisingly, shown that the importance of IT is now paramount in our industry. Historically, trying to integrate different IT systems has been fraught with difficulties and has led to a dilution of the promised benefits and a stranglehold on the systems' flexibility.

Our approach to the integration of our clients' IT needs is simple. To overcome these issues, we can simply adopt your IT system within our operation for the required functions (by being a remote user) or alternatively, it can be done in reverse, whereby Amethyst Group can provide full IT support. Amethyst Group uses the SSA BPCS ORD/BOSS system, which allows for complete flexibility in catering for our clients' operational requirements. The system is web enabled so we can give full access to a remote client.

Whatever your experience of outsourcing, transparency of the outsourced operation is absolutely critical. As well as increased verbal communication with our clients, our IT systems allow for the provision of any type of report to be produced at any time and frequency and the following are some examples:

	Stock History
	Batch Tracking
	Stock Evaluations
	Shipping Note Audit Trail
	A-B-C Analysis

Clients can also be provided with sales order entry and invoicing provision if needed. For our pharmaceutical and healthcare clients, we provide expiry date driven inventory control to ensure absolute quality and peace of mind. Our IT systems ensure that the FIFO principle (First-in, First-out) is always applied to inventory control of our clients' stock.