Lester Information Technology Lester

Leicester IT LLC is a Russian company specializing in the development, implementation and maintenance of systems for automating the business of railway transport companies. Develops its own platform - IRS "Transportation" - for operators, forwarders and transport blocks of industrial enterprises.

History

2022: Direction for the development of sales systems for railway operators

On March 29, 2022, Lester IT announced the opening of a direction developments to create sales online services companies for operator sites. The technology is applicable to any type of rolling stock.

The online car sales service is located on the operator's website and allows you to sell fleet services in the self-service format, taking into account technical characteristics and current deployment. The availability of cars for placement in the service is determined by the operator's employees. When calculating the cost of the service, the tariff for the supply, the time of use of the car, tariff grids or rates of the tariff calculator of the operator company can be used.

Due to the quick ordering and the possibility of paying for services with a card (acquiring), the operator can attract more retail customers without using employees who are engaged in long-term contracts. In addition, you can increase the load of cars on empty shoulders by placing them in a service with restrictions in accessible directions. Since the service is posted on the operator's own website, all information on rolling stock remains under the control of the operator. The fact of payment of the invoice confirms the conclusion of the transaction under the offer agreement, the conditions of which are unchanged and uniform for all customers. This prevents the possibility of financial losses.

The online sales service acts as an additional corporate distribution channel and helps sell cars that, for various reasons, have temporary reserves. With the help of the solution, you can automate sales - it works almost autonomously. Documents are generated automatically.

"To synchronize all service sales processes, the service must be integrated with the operator's systems for providing information about the fleet in management and for accounting for free and booked cars. We also solve such problems. Integration will help combine the classic sales channel and online service into a single 'organism', " noted Vladimir Gaskov, CEO of Lester IT

The service on the operator's website is available to shippers 24/7 from any gadget. The independent selection of the necessary wagons, taking into account their characteristics, the date of submission and cost, accelerates the process of coordinating applications and makes it possible for shippers not to "queue" for rolling stock. Closing documents are automatically retrieved. Due to the fact that the service is not sharpened for a certain type of rolling stock and can show all the cars that the operator has, users can quickly track the vacated cars, sort the rolling stock by type and control the entire process of using the car and the current status of the order. For soft customer engagement, the concept of progressive profiling can be applied, when the user is gradually involved in the registration and the more his data he provides, the more opportunities open to him.

The solution is being developed on the basis of the platform IRS "Transportation," in which a large number of specialized railway facilities for working with loading, wagons, dislocations, registration of specialized documents and so on are assembled.

2014: Main activities

According to the information as of December 2014, Lester Information Technologies operates in the field of development and implementation of information systems for automation of transport companies engaged in railway freight transportation:

• companies - operators, owners of rolling stock;
• large cargo owners supplying and exporting goods by rail;
• freight forwarding companies that monitor the performance of transportation.

Main areas of activity:

• Design, development and implementation of specialized information systems of transport enterprises based on the product of IRS "Transportation";
• Management Accounting Consulting (Movement Management and Transportation Analysis);
• System integration of information projects;
• Design and development of Internet B2B and B2C solutions.