Soloplan looks to the future

Soloplan, a leading provider of logistics software, has announced that its management team is expanding.

With effect from 1 August 2022, the previous branch manager in South Africa, Jill Trösser, has joined the management of Soloplan SA as a director. This means that she is now a member of the board of directors alongside Fabian and Wolfgang Heidl. In coordination with the board, she will manage the company’s business in South Africa. “The shareholders are very pleased that Jill is taking on this task so energetically, and look forward to further cooperation. The appointment took place at the end of July during her stay in Kempten, Germany, and was thus immediately sealed with a handshake. All Soloplan colleagues from all international branches congratulate our colleague Jill and wish her success in her new position,” says a company spokesperson.

Meanwhile, there is also news from Soloplan´s development team. According to Steffen Wilke, chief development officer, the company has significant developments in the pipeline. “We are currently working on the CarLo Cloud Services project to be able to offer some of the functions of CarLo as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application,” he explains. “As a first step, this involves an external order entry and a tracking function, which will then be available on-demand for our customers via browser. In the future, more and more services from various areas of the CarLo universe will be added.”

This development offers customers numerous advantages. “Customers can integrate their external partners more easily into the CarLo processes. It is then sufficient to send a link, and there the external partner can enter his data, which is then directly imported into CarLo. This means that fewer interfaces are needed and sending Excel spreadsheets is no longer necessary. In the future, statistics and dashboards can easily be shared. This reduces the need for terminal environments and heavyweight fat clients, and generally lowers server and administration costs, as the browser is the accessing client and the hosting is handled by Soloplan,” Wilke expands.

“It is a simple setup and the infrastructure, the platform, and the software are managed by experts – a complete package,” he highlights. “In general, it can be said that the future lies in the cloud and web-based applications, which will play an increasingly significant role compared to desktop-based applications, especially for our logistics and planning sector.”