DPS International is a worldwide company with its Head Office in Central England, offering a wide range of specialised logistics support services including logistics consultancy, vehicle scheduling software and in-cab control and monitoring systems.

The company was started in 1982 by its current chairman, Paul Palmer, as a logistics consulting business based on many years of experience both at an operational and functional level within the FMCG Transport sector.

The growth of the consulting business in the UK highlighted the need for IT tools at both a strategic and tactical level. Having researched the market and not finding the tools the market needed, DPS invested in the development of both vehicle scheduling and routing software systems, initially to meet its consulting customers' needs but eventually to a wider logistics market.

In 1991, DPS began an expansion plan outside the UK with its first sales in the Benelux countries and Scandinavia. By 1993 there was further growth into France and Australia. DPS is now a world player with additional offices in South Africa, Germany and South Asia.

DPS has over 70 staff directly employed, plus an additional 20-30 people indirectly employed by partners.

The company operates in four key areas:-

• Logistics consulting
• Supply of professional vehicle scheduling and optimisation systems
• Supply of vehicle routing and time & distance technology systems
• Systems integration and bespoke solutions - with ERP systems, in-cab monitoring and warehouse management

The company is a world leader in providing IT Solutions to the Logistics sector with an infrastructure of DPS offices spread out over the globe plus a network of Business Partners.

DPS have recently launched an innovative web-based vehicle scheduling system logixcentral (www.logixcentral.com).