M&S Logistics discusses cloud hosting and migrating to the MRI SaaS platform
M&S Logistics, the global provider of bulk liquid transport and logistics services, has discussed cloud hosting and migrating to the MRI SaaS platform.
The COVID-19 pandemic required M&S to make various changes to business operations, not least to support staff to work from home around the world, demand remained strong and international growth continued.
In 2020, the company started its second US office, in New Jersey, and was named in the London Stock Exchange “1,000 Companies to Inspire Britain”. M&S has been using specialist tank container operating and rental software from MRI Intermodal for many years, hosted in the UK on servers run by a third party.
M&S Logistics turned to MRI as its long-term software partner to discuss cloud hosting and explore the benefits of migrating to the MRI SaaS platform. Planned “from the ground up” and continuously enhanced over many years, MRI’s SaaS solution is dedicated exclusively to clients using MRI software.
Having worked in the cloud for over a year now, M&S has seen clear improvements in the speed, performance, and security of its operating software. With the new cloud set-up, MRI engineers can resolve issues much more quickly in the background. The new web apps also look good and are easy to work with.
Since having settled in with the new cloud model, M&S is now looking at adding further value to its data with business intelligence tools, advanced analytics and interfaces to other systems. In the future, this could well include interfaces to customer portals and other 3rd party platforms as the tank container industry accelerates the pace of digitalisation, like so many other sectors of supply chain, logistics and shipping.
The platform is powered by data centres in the UK, Singapore and USA and all infrastructure is configured for industry best practice and specifically for the software solutions that it hosts.
For more information visit www.tankcontaineroperators.com
28th June 2021
