Technology Magazine August 2019 | Page 382

POLARIS TRANSPORTATION GROUP
382 for our staff to focus on exception management rather than clerical administration . We can now run this operation 24 / 7 and scale to the business order demands , and we ’ re proud to state that we are now driving 80 % of our customs paperwork processing through fully automated workflow .”
Of the aforementioned technologies , Polaris ’ s DLT platform is perhaps the most emblematic of the firm ’ s ability to bring complex concepts through to fruition quickly and effectively . “ Our CEO , Dave Cox , had an inkling to learn more about blockchain ,” says Brajkovich . Following an event that illuminated the tech ’ s qualities , Cox began to see a potential use case for it within Polaris . The firm subsequently partnered with IBM to generate various DLT-based solutions applicable to their operations , with significant success . “ One of our use cases for a minimal viable product was an outcome to achieve consolidation and reconciliation for the interline invoicing process ,” says Brajkovich . “ We found that the process was lagging , though not in terms of digitising the data
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