THE COMPANY
DESCRIPTION
In order to meet the companies demand to perform and manage the activities and details involved in the Import and Export processes, and to speed up and optimize the processes aiming at rendering better services to its customers, Softway has created a comprehensive set of software solutions for operating, controlling and managing several Foreign Trade modules: Import, Export, Exchange, as well as the control and management of special Customs Regimes assigned by SRF, such as: Drawback, RECOF, Blue Line, DE, DAF, Pexpam, and Industrial Customs Warehouse, in addition to Fiscal Classification, Mobile Technology, and Business Intelligence solutions for your business.
Softway was founded in 1996, and today it is the national company leader in software solutions for Foreign Trade, with more than 300 collaborators, including System Analysts, Computing Engineers, and Consultants, which form an integrated group that is entirely commited with its customers, ofering them quality, speed, and security for the solutions provided.
Softway products are natively interconnected. They have been deployed and tailored in more than 130 companies, with different ERP interfaces: SAP, ORACLE, BAAN, IFS, MFG-Pro, Datasul and other systems. The solutions are implemented in Brazil and in other seven Latin American countries, which makes the business relations among these countries easier and faster.
Today Softway has more than 150 clients from different industries, such as: Automotive, Aeronautical, Telecommunications, IT, Electronics, Building, Commodities, Tradings, Foreign Trade, Agrobusiness, Chemicals, Pharmaceutical, Health, Oil and Gas, among others. These are some of our clients: Alcoa, Atlântico Sul, Caterpillar, Construtora Norberto Odebrecht, Day Brasil, Dell Computadores, DuPont, Embraer, General Motors, Goodyear, Kodak, Kuehne Nagel, Macedo, Mercedes Benz, Merck-Sharp&Dhome, Philips, Wal-Mart, and other clients of the same importance.
Softway is proud of having its solutions installed in some of the most important Import/Export companies in the country. In 2007, according to Science and Technology Ministry, 19,6% of the 250 biggest exporting companies, and 29,1 of the 250 biggest importing companies used Softway systems.
Softway has the Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) certificate. D&B is a multinational provider of business information (Credit, marketing, purchasing). Its certificate confirms that a company is included in D&B global database. Softway D-U-N-S® Number (Data Universal Numbering System) is 90-456-6486. This code helps US identifiy and connect with millions of companies all over the World, and is recognized as a common company identifier towards EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) and in Foreign Trade transactions.
QUALITY and INOVATION are the basis for Softway success.
SOFTWAY DIFFERENCIALS:
- State-of-art technology used for developing solutions;
- Team of highly skilled professionals in the Foreign Trade Area;
- The biggest market reach in Foreign trade software products;
- The best and most complete software solutions for the Brazilian market;
- Softway has a large experience in the RECOF regime with more than 40 clients using the system or in implementation;
- Specific solutions for Manaus market;
- Agility and reliability in updating legal changes;
- Priority post-sales support and services;
- Global solution;
VISION
“TO BE RECOGNIZED AS THE BEST AND THE MOST COMPLETE COMPANY IN FOREIGN TRADE SOLUTIONS”
MISSION
“To provide companies involved in international trade with systemic and operational solutions, as well consulting services, offering them competitive gains. To look for an increasing marketplace and appropriate Return on Investment through our expertise.”
QUALITY POLICY
Our commitment is:
1. Being-proactive in understanding, meeting, and exceeding all our customer’s needs by offering product and service excellence, training, and specialized and multiple post-sales services.
2. Providing quality products and services, with appropriate timeframe and costs, according to the customer’s needs, and satisfying returns to the company, ensuring the resources required to pay its collaborators appropriately and for a technological update.
3. Ensuring continuos improvement of processes, by keeping our solutions updated with state-of-art technologies, and in compliance with current requirements.
4. Search for the value, participation, motivation, teamwork, and expertise of our collaborators, who are essential for the company development and success. Providing them with well being and better life quality should be a continuous goal for the company action.
VALUES AND PRINCIPLES
• Client-centered: To produce goods and services that can add value to Clients, by offering them competitive gains;
• Quality: To produce goods and services, and make them available with quality, by exceeding the client’s expectation;
• Team work: To encourage teamwork, aiming at better individual and professional results, by emphasizing the commitment with the company and its clients;
• Partners: To respect and promote individuality and diversity, by demonstrating respect and providing the entire team with possibilities for individual and professional growth. To act and to facilitate our partners’ actions aiming at developing conditions for the community improvement;
• Profitability: In order to ensure appropriate return to investors.