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“ AI will free up to staff to perform more valuable tasks . We know that AI can be utilised to perform some baseline tasks in 10 minutes , which 10 years ago would take a human two hours .”
— Chris Kirchner , CEO of Slync
tasks . We know that AI can be utilised to perform some baseline tasks in 10 minutes , which 10 years ago would take a human two hours .”
Kirchner cites the example of a customer that has cut a two-hour administrative process around shipping to just three to four minutes , a figure he admits he first thought must be an error .
“ We ’ ve run pilots on this and the efficiencies you can create when you leverage software effectively in a paperbased environment are really remarka- ble . Based on projections and business cases , we can save this company nine digits a year , which is a very significant number for a freight forwarder – it ’ s a 20 % increase in their income .”
With his focus very much on the next stage of Slync ’ s development , Kirchner recently added two high-profile figures to his executive team in the form of Samuel Israel , the former regional CEO of DHL Global Forwarding , and Nikos
OCTOBER 2018