TrenStar is an international provider of integrated logistics and asset management solutions. The company offers products and services to a multitude of customers that range from reusable packaging on the one end of the logistics spectrum, to receiving, dispatch and cross-dock management in the middle and final receiving, electronic warehouse management, container collection and cleaning on the other side. Throughout the supply chain TrenStar uses its proprietary Container Management (TrenStarCM) system to track and trace all products, provide intelligence on the product performance and to manage the process according to set business rules.

TrenStar boasts a large IT division with a full suite of developing capabilities. This division, using TrenStar’s flagship TrenStarCM system as backbone, offers customers full visibility and control of their assets. Equipped with the TrenStarCM network, TrenStar collects, analyses and presents intelligence on product movement, supplier performance, the costs that are tied to each phase of the supply chain and any other parameter that a client would require. TrenStar reports on these parameters and will manage, or enable a client to manage, its supply chain based on pre-set business rules.

TrenStar further uses its experience in managing its own, and customers’ mobile assets through barcodes, human readable labels and radio frequency identification (RFID) to offer specific, customisable solutions. Services already on offer include management dashboards, electronic and RFID-enabled fixed asset management (TrenStar FAM), electronic and automated advanced shipping notification (ASN) and short shipment notification (SSN), mobile scanning and linking of product shipments, automated scan confirmations and unique, sector-specific barcode development.

TrenStar has the capability of delivering the information to any Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system and will support any service through its 24/7 helpdesk and call centre facility.