For over three decades, Perry Mandera has served as the president of The Custom Companies, Inc., growing it into a large transportation logistics company serving clients across the globe. Innovating to stay ahead, Perry Mandera’s company developed a proprietary dock management system (DMS) to improve its freight control.
The Custom Companies’ revolutionary system is completely paperless and utilizes each cargo’s individual bar code to match it with its destination’s zip code. Previously, dockworkers at regional distribution centers would receive a written manifest from the supervisor telling them where a shipment was and where it was going. After completing that assignment, the dockworkers would return for the next assignment. This not only slowed down delivery times, but it was costly and prone to human errors.
