Govt seeks to modernise wholesale industry with digital roadmap

Singapore

DIGITALISATION has helped local food distributor SATS BRF to create a document retrieval system which enables halal, health and import permits to be stored in the cloud and automatically indexed.

It is a far cry from when it used to deploy two staff members working four hours a day to generate 28,000 documents a year. Digital copies of its permits can now be retrieved and attached to customer invoices, saving SATS BRF up to 95 per cent of its time previously spent on document handling.

This experience was shared by SATS BRF, a subsidiary of ground-handling and in-flight catering firm SATS, during a visit on Monday by Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry Koh Poh Koo…