Solutions for logistic providers
The way to profit: provide leadership
Business pains
Key issue: more leadership. This is what customers expect from their logistics service providers:
- More strategic leadership, with an emphasis on solving supply chain problems rather than operational logistics problems;
- More tactical leadership, or more value-added services;
- More technical leadership, with more options for effortless delivery of real-time information to customers.
Not only do customers want this kind of leadership - they want it now. With outsourced logistics services expected to account for 50% of transportation budgets by 2006, the pressure is on for logistics companies to exponentially expand their services - either that, or they risk losing market share to more agile competitors.
Key challenge: how to find a way to (cost-effectively) meet customers' information demands.
Quyntess Performance Solutions:
Inbound Logistics Planning:
Finding synergies by combining the inbound material flows of your customers
Logistics operations are constantly under cost pressure. Inbound materials planning is no longer limited to mere transportation and freight costs, but also includes inventory, handling and labor. With the complexity of multiple suppliers, customers, items, packaging units, and destinations, the question is how to effectively manage and coordinate inbound planning.
While most commercial software applications for inbound planning today focus purely on freight costs, we take into account the total impact of transportation costs, inventory and delivery. Our solution goes beyond common applications by planning right down to the dock delivery levels, from supplier pick-up through delivery to the inventory of each individual part.
With this approach, you cannot only share cost benefits with your customers, but also help you develop new logistics schemes and educate your clients in new ways of operating the supply chain.
Real-time Supply Chain Management
Companies are demanding more and more information from their service providers - real-time information, granular information, information formatted and delivered to customer specifications.
For a logistics provider servicing multiple customers, trying to deliver unique information services to each of one without building an enormous IT infrastructure seems almost impossible.
The Viewlocity Supply Chain Event Management software that we work with powers the visibility and exception management capabilities of some of the top logistics companies in the world.
Our experience and benefits are proven.
- A comprehensive product suite (not just shipment track & trace);
- a holistic view of the supply chain, covering planning, shipments, inventory, orders, and forecasts (not limited to inbound visibility only);
- tools beyond visibility;
- exception management;
- alerts and notifications;
- work-flow driven resolution;
- performance analysis;
- leading, proven technologies;
- seamless, non-intrusive;
- widely flexible in terms of configuration and personalization, designed for an extended community;
- high performance, scalable.
Our solutions will enable you to easily spread the traditional benefits of SCEM across your entire customer base, identifying potential cost reduction opportunities while increasing your flexibility and responsiveness. You will play a larger, more strategic role for your customers outside the transportation department while:
- Reducing your administrative burden to support your customers;
- Increasing your ability to provide differentiated services to different customer segments;
- Improving your ability to confidently promise new services to your customers.
