Henry Ford once said, “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” Keeping the spirit alive of achieving more by working together, MatchBox Exchange (MB) Singapore hosted an evening for our customers, at Fame Entertainment in Jurong on Saturday, October 8th, 2022. Close to 40 customers attended the event along with the added support from Wan Hai, a key MB Partner. The event was conducted to appreciate all users for adopting and supporting MatchBox Exchange’s platform with reuse and exchange bookings. The evening marked a celebration where customers who often carry out exchanges with one another got an opportunity to network. This greatly contributed to bring the logistics community together through exchanges, a big part of the MatchBox Exchange mission. To honour our top users, a segment of the event included an award ceremony. a) Hock Seng Heng Transport & Trading Pte Ltd and CA Transportation & Warehousing Pte Ltd were recognized for making the Most Re-Use and Exchange bookings so far in 2022. b) Rejoice Container Services Pte Ltd, WYN2000 Transport & Container Services Pte Ltd and Waterfront Services Pte Ltd were awarded the title of MB’s Power Users for consistently booking on the…
Embrace Digital Transformation and be Open to New Ideas
How many of you have heard the phrase …“Embrace digital transformation or die”? What does this mean? Well, I do know that in today’s world those that are agile, open to change and willing to challenge the status quo are most likely to succeed. At MatchBox Exchange, we believe digital transformation has a number of dimensions. People often think that simply digitising an existing manual process is ‘transformation’. Although we agree there is a lot of value in automating current manual processes, we feel true transformation comes from improving the underlying process by rethinking the operating model altogether. Let me give you an example. In our industry, we see companies investing in ways to make existing assets (trucks/depots/terminals) as efficient as they can be. Trucking companies invest in high productivity vehicles so they can move more containers in the same trip, depots invest in scheduling and appointment systems in an attempt to improve the flow of trucks through their facilities. Don’t get me wrong, these are important initiatives that help contribute to an improved transport network but… Our view is that rather than focus so much energy on maximising the efficiency of the current process why not consider a new…