Weighing up risk

Validity of Transporter's Third Party insurance cover called into question without proof of compliant axle loading and total loading

IMO SOLAS regulations require that, for every container to be transported by sea, the owner of that cargo must determine the gross mass of the container on an approved weighing device, and must generate documentary proof thereof in a specied format.

Failure to comply with these regulations will prevent containers being allowed into departure ports risking delays and added costs.

3. Controlling in transit stock losses

The volume and value of goods transported around SADC countries by road are vast.

Stock losses in transit can only be controlled and managed if volumes of goods load and the point of loading and the volume of goods discharged at the point of loading are determined with great accuracy

Weighing is the obvious way of establishing these values, and is highly effective when these values are integrated into an overall ERP system so as to make real time reconciliations possible.

Solutions to Mitigate Weighing Related Risks

Weighing related risks can only be mitigated through management having access to accurate and compete weighing data on a real-time basis. The provision of these types of solutions are therefore key

While a number of software companies have sought to provide these solutions, they have generally lacked the base weighing knowledge and understanding of weighing devices, which has curtailed their success.

With one notable exception, most of the scale companies that historically focused on the supply, servicing and repair of scales, in the “mundane age” of weighing have continued to focus on service and repair of scales.

The notable exception is Sasco, which traded as during the mundane age” of weighing as the South African Scale Company Sasco commenced trading in 1910 and was the market leader during both the mechanical age of weighing and in the in subsequent electronic analogue age of weighing

Sasco transformation into the leading weighing data systems provider has been achieved by securing rights to the most advanced digital weighing technologies, integrating these devices with micro-computer systems capable of providing fully automated weighing solutions and the complete integration of this data to real- time ERP and cloud based solutions.