Electronic export certificates
are now a reality in South
Africa with the Perishable
Products Export Control
Board (PPECB) having
completed the first phase of
its digital programme.
According to the PPECB’s
CEO Stuart Symington, the
last of the 600 inspectors
across the country have now
been trained and issued with
digital tablets ushering in a
new era for the organisation
where clipboards and
pens will no longer be the
tools used to issue export
certificates.
Addressing the Exporters’
Club Western Cape (ECWC)
last week, Symington said
the tablet technology rolled
out over the past two years
would ultimately transform
the PPECB into a far more
efficient and effective
organisation.
Symington said through
access to real-time, accurate
information inspectors
would be able to get export
certificates out far more
quickly.
“The technology will
achieve long-term efficiencies
that should translate into a
more cost-effective service to
our customers, but we believe
we will also be able to offer a
far better customer service,”
he said.
Symington said
introducing tablet
technology had not been
a quick and easy process,
but with the first phase
now completed the team
would start looking into
further applications of the
technology which would also
be rolled out in phases.
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The technology will
achieve long-term
efficiencies.
– Stuart Symington
