Queuing up for Maritech TMS

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One year after the launch, many customers are eager to get started with cloud based transport management with us.

– The pilot projects have been successful, and the first customers have now implemented the system in their daily operations,” says Ove Gjelstenli, Business Development Manager.

– Nordvest Transport was the first to go live, and they have been operational for several months now. In early September, we also launched GeSi Shipping, which is part of the SR Group. Feedback from both companies is that they are very satisfied and have already experienced a simpler and more efficient workday. Some of the benefits they specifically mention include the real-time map solution, proactive features, smart material planning, and the system’s accessibility anytime, anywhere.

 

We’re ready to take you to the cloud!

Now that the pilot phase is complete, we are beginning the process of transitioning all our customers to the cloud. “Many of them are very proactive and are already well underway with conducting pilot projects with us. We have a strong team ready to assist existing customers in moving to the new platform and to implement entirely new customers who have patiently waited over the past year.”

– It is evident that many in the industry are aware of the benefits they can achieve by digitizing work processes, both in terms of simplification and margins. In the new TMS, it has become much easier to optimize both financial management and trip planning, with full visibility into aspects such as margins and assignments. You can also seamlessly connect with your customers through the customer portal and communicate efficiently with your suppliers – directly from the system via EDI. Environmental reporting is another good example, where you can obtain automatic documentation and analysis of emissions, filling levels, and route choices. For many businesses, a significant amount of time can be saved compared to doing this manually.

Maritech TMS team

– There is also significant interest in Firmadok, with whom we partnered in May of this year. We are now in the process of testing the new integration, and we can already see that the combination of Firmadok and Maritech TMS is going to be extremely valuable for many transportation companies – especially when used together with Maritech Analytics. Data from all vehicles flows directly into the system, allowing you to have real-time control and automatic documentation of driving and rest times, maintenance, and more. Time tracking and driver wage calculations are automatically updated, verified, and sent directly to the payroll system.

 

See us at Transport og Logistikk 2023!

Now we are truly looking forward to showcasing all of this at the Transport og Logistikk trade fair. We will have a team of experts on hand to demonstrate both Maritech TMS, Maritech Analytics, and Firmadok. Stian Skjelbred, the founder of Firmadok, will also be joining us this time.

So, come and say hi to us at booth C01-09, and feel free to ask any questions! 

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Norwegian Customer Days 2023

It’s a wrap!

At Maritech, we believe in building strong relationships with our valued customers, and what better way to do that than by organizing our Norwegian Customer Days?

From May 31st to June 1st, we had the pleasure of hosting 86 of our customers from 51 different companies in the beautiful (and rainy) city Ålesund. This was the first time that we gathered our seafood and logistics customers in the same event. Clearly a good choice, judging from the feedback we have got after the event, and from the fact that it was fully booked three weeks in advance. These two days were filled with enriching experiences, engaging discussions, and the opportunity to forge new and stronger connections.  

In addition to presentations from Team Maritech, the event featured notable guest speakers who shared their valuable insights. Tom-Eirik Thorgersen from Grieg Seafood talked about starting a company from scratch and being Maritech Cloud’s first major customer. Marianne Jakobsen from Nordvest Transport shared her experiences as our first TMS pilot, in conversation with our project team.

Bjrønar Customer days

Magnus Fagertun from Brødrene Karlsen shed light on the digitization of the whitefish value chain. Petra Ruiter from Kingfish talked about their history and the decision-making process behind choosing Maritech as their ERP provider. Stian Skjelbred from Firmadok elaborated on our new strategic logistics partnership, and Øyvind Hafsøe from the Customs Authority shared insights on digital customs clearance and new customs regulations.  

In the evening, we embarked on a boat trip through the stunning Sunnmøre fjords, culminating in Trandal, where we were treated to a delightful barbecue and enjoyed the musical talents of local artist Live Hanken.  

We made a little film you can watch here
Trandal Kundedager

From everyone in Maritech: Thank you, thank you, thank you to all our amazing customers that made these two days so memorable! 

Christian & Frida Customer days 2023

Watch the Norwegian Customer Days 2023 program here

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FDA’s New Traceability Rules for Seafood

A checklist and lessons from Norway

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The US seafood industry is facing new challenges as the FDA traceability regulations are set to become official on November 7th. 

The new, strict regulations from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) include all food commodities identified on the FDA’s Food Traceability list (FTL), such as finfish (catfish excluded), crustaceans, mollusks, and bivalves, with additional records required for fish obtained from a Fishing Vessel. The traceability record-keeping requirements will affect almost all seafood producers who do business in or with America. With aggressive deadlines, few exceptions, and no phase-in, the proposed rule will make compliance using paper-based or out of date electronic systems nearly impossible. 

 

Aligning with existing regulations

Seafood products included in the FTL are also subject to the Seafood Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP), the National Shellfish Sanitation Program (NSSP), and the Seafood Import Monitoring Program (SIMP), among others. Sorting out how all these rules align and how they can be incorporated into your existing data management systems can be confusing. Especially for small producers, the burden can seem onerous and expensive. Although not mandated, it seems clear that the ability to provide a spreadsheet record to the FDA within 24 hours could only be accomplished if a company is capturing digital records. 

“I talk to producers every day who have already put considerable investment into data compliance and who fear, especially in this inflationary and difficult economic climate, the enormous cost of reviewing and complying with the new rules. It’s going to be difficult for a lot of seafood companies, particularly small-to-midsize harvesters and distributors,” says Kristjan Kristjansson, Sales Manager, Maritech North America.

“Keeping track of everything is painful right now and it’s going to get more painful. There are some companies that aren’t going to be able to make that transition easily without an affordable software partner. If the FDA triggers an audit, without a system in place that can produce the necessary records within hours, it could mean fines, lawsuits, or even being shut down.”

 

Kristjan Kristjansson,Maritech North America

Norway – the gold standard for seafood traceability

Similar rules have been in place in Norway for many years, and the country has become the gold standard for traceability record keeping. As Maritech has been a trusted partner in seafood technology for more than 40 years, ensuring compliance according to Norway’s even stricter traceability requirements, our systems have been stress tested by some of the largest and most complex seafood companies in the world, whose global trade must meet all standards and regulations. In transitioning our advanced software tools to the cloud, we also make our expertise and best practices available to even the smallest of seafood producers in a simple and cost-effective way.   

“For firms to comply with the new rules, especially small to mid-sized producers, partnering with a software company who fully understands the best way to implement traceability systems in an efficient and cost-effective manner is now more important than ever. With Maritech Cloud, you get sophisticated cloud-based tools tailored for the seafood value chain, with built-in compliance and proven best-practice methodology,” Kristjansson continues.

“Landing Note information, which records the catch area, fishing trip dates, origin lots, and more has been in place for many years in Norway and has been an integral part of Maritech software systems from the very beginning. In our latest pilot project, we have moved this functionality into our native cloud solution, Maritech Purchase & Sales, with planned release functionality developed specifically for the North American market. This means that even very small producers can comply easily and affordably with an implementation that takes weeks, and not months and years.”  

 

New FDA Rules – Checklist

  • Food Traceability List – Companies that originate, transform or create food on the FTL must assign a new traceability lot code. All key data elements must be linked to the traceability lot code to ensure traceability within the firm and across the supply chain.

  • Seafood Obtained from a Fishing Vessel – First Receivers of seafood obtained from a fishing vessel must create/maintain a traceability lot code and have a mechanism for linking the code to the Harvest date range and locations (National Marine Fisheries Service Ocean Geographic Code or geographical coordinates) for the trip during which the seafood was caught.

  • Key Data Elements – The FDA’s proposed system follows critical tracking events (CTEs) in the supply chain and stipulates capture of key data elements (KDEs) along the way.

  • Data Flow – Firms that ship foods on the FTL would be required to send product origin information, including the traceability lot code, to the receiving firm.

  • Record Keeping Requirements – Under the new mandatory record-keeping procedures, supply chain partners will have to maintain the data in their systems for two years and provide it to the FDA in a sortable, electronic spreadsheet within 24 hours in the event of an outbreak.

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From reactive to proactive with Maritech AMS

If you ask our new Global Services Director Kjell Jørgensen to point out his favorite subject, the answer is likely to be proactivity.  

Kjell has extensive international experience from the IT industry – e.g. as COO and Managing Director in Star Information Systems, five years of working for Merit in Switzerland, and two years for Logitec commuting to India. He is now in charge of strengthening our services as one Maritech – world-wide, with AMS (Application Management Services) as the corner stone and foundation all future services will be built upon.

What is AMS? 

The main objective for Application Management Services (AMS) is to take the customer support from being a reactive break-and-fix- service to a proactive offering. 

Here in Maritech we believe in achieving this through utilizing several best practice tools and a structured organization. On the tool-set side we have implemented the ITIL processes for incident, service request and change request. This gives the customer the benefit a clear and consistent definition of all things support. Furthermore, it secures a uniform approach to all customer requests. This provides the customer as well as the Maritech support organization with a structured workflow and hence a more efficient way of working. This is to the benefit of both parties. 

Maritech has also implemented a set of application monitoring probes, some generic and others bespoke to our own applications. Next to the traditional application monitoring tool, we have also constructed a set of process monitoring or process control checkpoints where we are able to give the customer an early warning when local data errors are about to occur. 

Global Competence teams 

On the support side, Maritech has re-organized and re-structured the support teams with one virtual, dedicated service desk and a combination of dedicated and allocated 2nd and 3rd line support resources. Through this, we are securing a timely reaction to all incidents and requests and taking the customer from being person dependent to office dependent. 

The services are a global offering and when the global organization is a part of this structured and uniform way of working through virtual teams and across timezones, all customers will experience better access to resources, swifter response and shorter resolution times. By utilizing global competence teams, customers across the globe will experience the same quality of service, the same reaction and resolution time and in the end the same customer experience. 

This will also enable Maritech to have not only extended service hours for ordinary tasks, but also a true 24/7 on call service for critical incidents. 

Best practice and efficient processes 

“I was engaged by Maritech to help in several areas, Kjell Jørgensen says. “My background has been IT service management and service deliveries for many years and my primary tasks now is to put together and establish a professional service delivery that is truly global, both across geography and business verticals.  

As the commercial aspect is core in any business, my goal is to help Maritech become more efficient in its service delivery. Furthermore, to help Maritech´s clients getting a more cost efficient support and service by utilizing best practices and common IT industry standard processes, procedures and tools.  

My belief is that when we get even better at what we are doing, not only by providing the customer with great business applications, but also with a complete set of professional global services, our customers will experience a better every-day life and an ability to focus even more on their core business and leave their business process support to us. “

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Maximize your profitability

Maritech’s latest solution is a native cloud application that streamlines seafood procurement and sales from any device, anywhere.

For more than 40 years, Maritech has delivered software supporting the purchase and sales of Norwegian seafood. At this year’s Aqua Nor in Trondheim we launched DGS Purchase and Sales. The solution allows you to automate and control the purchase and sales process with efficient box-level tracking. ​

​Best practice processes

Purchase and Sales simplifies complex seafood processes and enables you to maximize your profitability. ​You can fully control your inventory, what you have to sell, margins and your customers and vendors.​

Full traceability

The solution gives you full and verifiable traceability from origin to customer, to comply with requirements from customer, government and certifications bodies.

Automation

Maritech automates your processes for importing data to support traceability and control, invoicing, document and data flow for more effective handling and remove manual errors. ​

Our biggest launch in the last 20 years

We are attending Aqua Nor in Trondheim and will unveil new and innovative products.

Aqua Nor is the world’s largest fair for aquaculture technology. Maritech is present throughout the entire fair from August 20th-23rd. Meet us at booth D-349.

Big launch

Maritech invites you to learn about our biggest launch in the last 20 years. We will unveil our new purchase and sales solution, handling full seafood traceability.

Join us as we show you how DigitalSeafood is your path towards a smarter factory. Our Analytics team will demonstrate how our products give you complete operational insight.

Join us at Aqua Nor conference tent Wednesday 21st of August at 11:00 AM.

4K for Ocean

At Maritech, we are dedicated to do good for the ocean. And the planet. Therefore, we are organizing a race to raise money for a good cause.

The 4K for Ocean by Maritech is a 4 km run and walk event in conjunction with the Aqua Nor exhibition in Trondheim.

The event offers exhibition attendees and others a fun and healthy alternative to traditional networking while raising money for an organization who works toward a cleaner and more sustainable coastline and ocean.

For each participant who finishes the race, we will donate 200 NOK to In the same boat.

Join the 4k for Ocean-race at Wednesday 21st. Sign up for the race here.


Montreal Fish goes live with Maritech Trading


Maritech has successfully completed a go live implementation of its core software solution, Maritech Trading, for Montreal Fish, a leading salmon importer to North America.

Maritech announce that Montreal Fish has deployed Maritech Trading, a software solution tailored for their operational processes. Montreal Fish is a Canadian company engaged in importing and exporting seafood including farmed, organic and wild salmon. Thanks to large volume purchasing, preferential agreements with suppliers, and rigorously controlled operations, Montreal Fish ensures dependable delivery and freshness, all year long.

Montreal Fish has improved business operation including buying, selling, moving and traceability of seafood by partnering with Maritech to implement Maritech Trading, a solution that has been designed solely for seafood operations. The full software implementation included the successful deployment of Microsoft Dynamics NAV, integrated with Maritech Trading using Maritech’s ERP Any API.

“We are very impressed and excited with the Maritech Trading solution as it is tailored to our industry and our work processes. It works the way our business works and greatly assists us with collaborating with our supplier network. Maritech Trading ensures we are all on the same page and can easily integrate our planning and delivery. Now we can electronically import data from many of our suppliers, removing time consuming processes and sources of errors.”

Gabrielle Beaudry, VP Finance & Administration, Montreal Fish.

With Maritech Trading, Montreal Fish can easily manage traceability and chain of custody certification, which is of prime importance to the company in delivering sustainable and environmentally sound products. In addition, as a company that trades internationally, handling currency fluctuations is a core part of maintaining their bottom line.

“We worked closely with Montreal Fish to ensure they have the functionality, information and tools they need to manage key aspects of their business better and streamline operations. They have moved away from the constraints of spreadsheets to a platform that has data integrations, complete traceability, and control and are forging ahead, creating new, more efficient approaches that free up time to focus on the fundamentals of managing and growing their business.”

Blair Shelton, Managing Director of Maritech NA.

As an international company with not only strong roots in Norway but also a sustained commitment to the North American market, with home grown offices in both Canada and the US, Maritech is especially excited at the go live of Maritech Trading by Montreal Fish.

“An important part of our strategy is to grow internationally. Going live with Montreal Fish is a good start to our 2019 expansion plan. Our software solutions are tailored for the global seafood industry and more and more customers are improving business control and ensuring full traceability by deploying our solutions.”

Janne T. Morstøl, CEO, Maritech.

Maritech launches new cloud-based seafood software for the US market

This cloud-based suite of digital trading tools called DigitalSeafoodTM is aimed at seafood processors, traders and brokers, and will expand the availability of tailored, industry-specific tools to this previously under-served market sector.

Maritech will present its next generation of cloud-based seafood software tools at this years’ Boston Seafood Show. Seafood companies, from small traders to large multi-national organizations, are recognizing the cost and efficiency savings as well as the greater collaboration possibilities across the entire value chain that can be achieved by taking advantage of the new trends in digitalization.

“Cloud-based solutions have attracted a lot of our investment in the last year and the already underlying sales success of these solutions shows the seafood sector is embracing the cost-savings and efficiency these solutions can deliver. Although Maritech already offered a trading platform that is favored by the industry, the digitalization trend is still in its early stages. We already see signs that current and potential customers – both in Norway and internationally – aim to capitalize on the expected digitalization boom in the seafood sector.”

Janne T. Morstøl, CEO Maritech

Maritech expects the trend towards cloud-enabled solutions to strengthen in 2018 as seafood producers demonstrate the drive and determination to lead the way in adopting new technologies for efficient and sustainable seafood production.

Broodstock Capital invests in Maritech Systems

Seafood and aquaculture investor Broodstock Capital becomes majority shareholder in seafood data and software company Maritech Systems AS.

“Although Maritech already offers a trading platform that is favoured by the industry, the digitalisation trend is still in its early stages. Maritech’s track and trace software will enable industry players to increase the cost-efficiency of their operations across the entire value chain. We already see signs that current and potential customers – both in Norway and internationally – aim to capitalise on the expected digitalisation boom in the seafood sector. Our investment in Maritech reflects this.”

Kjetil Haga, partner at Broodstock Capital.

The investment in Maritech is in line with Broodstock Capital’s strategy targeting market leaders in high growth niches within the seafood sector.

Following the transaction, which was signed today, Broodstock Capital owns 52 percent of the shares in Maritech. The remaining shares are owned by Midvest Fondene (36 percent), Bølgen Invest (10 percent), and Mette Kamsvåg, chairman of the board of Maritech (2 percent).

The equity value of 100 percent of the shares in Maritech is based on a multiple of 6-7 x EBITDA forecast for 2017.

Maritech’s heritage dates back to 1975, but today’s business was established in 2012, when it was spun off from Akva Group ASA. Today, Maritech has a base of almost 300 customers, including the largest seafood companies in Norway. The company has approximately 60 employees. Maritech’s headquarter is based in Averøy, Norway, with the largest office in Molde, further Norwegian offices in Oslo, Harstad and Tromsø. The company also has offices in Halifax, Canada, and Seattle, USA. In 2017, Maritech has strengthened its position in digitalization and industrial IoT by becoming majority shareholder in Lillebakk Engineering AS. Janne T. Morstøl is Maritech’s CEO.

“Bringing Broodstock’s sector know-how and financial muscles on board will be of huge benefit to Maritech’s customers. Today, Maritech is primarily a software company. We will now fast-track our technology development to enable customers to make even better use of their huge amounts of data. Analysing and learning from this data will allow them to make even better decisions and their operations even more cost-efficient.”

Mette Kamsvåg, chairperson of the board of Maritech

Kamsvåg will continue in her role as chairperson. Jan Erik Løvik, managing partner at Broodstock Capital, and Kjetil Haga, partner at Broodstock Capital, will join the six-person board of directors.

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