Logistics Management

An ever expanding global network, an increasing use of 3PLs, and fragmented shipping related data all compound efforts to manage logistics in today’s global environment. Viewlocity’s Logistics Management solution organizes information from all the trading partners into a single comprehensive system and provides tools to view, respond, and measure your logistics network.

Challenges

• International Logistics Variability - Huge amounts of these products are built in low cost manufacturing locations. The management of International Inbound Logistics is critical in maintaining fluidity of a company’s supply chain.

• Increase Premium Freight Usage - To ensure proper fluidity of their supply chain, companies need to make sure product is at the right place at the right time. Due to numerous reasons, shipment can be delayed and the organization is forced to use expensive transportation alternative to keep things flowing.

• Capacity Problems During Peak Seasons - Spikes in demand during peak season add to an already exasperated situation in regards to transportation resources. Increase fluctuations in end consumer demand force organization to look for non-contracted carriers to handle increased freight volumes, which increase transportation cost.

• Perfect Order Metric - The extended supply chain requires organizations to deal with managing a single order from multiple origins to a single destination. The cause multiple shipments to be created that needed to be delivered on-time and at the same time.

Viewlocity Solution Features

• Shipment Visibility – Tracks the status of the shipment across multiple transportation modes and carriers. The logistics manager has a link between shipments to corresponding purchase orders and sales orders. Users are notified immediately when shipment disruptions may result in deviations from the delivery plan.

• Capacity Management – Aggregates orders throughout the supply chain providing a logical insight into future and current capacity needs. Alerts are generated when future or current capacity is projected to be greater than current capacity levels.

• Perfect Order Monitoring - Synchronizes shipments from multiple origins going to a single destination, onto a single order, to insure the order is delivered together and complete. Notifications occur when any portion of the order is not performing to the plan.

• Transportation Mode Selection – Minimizes total delivery cost by making mode selection decisions based on the current supply chain status to satisfy customer requests.

• Carrier Score Carding – Monitors and measures the performance of carriers against contracted service levels.

Viewlocity Benefits

• Reduction in Peak Season Capacity Issues - Companies using Viewlocity’s Logistics Management solution have realized a decrease in peak season capacity issues. Often during peak times of the year finding capacity to move shipments can be challenging and result in the use of a non-contracted carrier. Our logistics solution surveys your entire logistics networks for current and future capacity needs and forewarns you when capacity plans are in jeopardy. Linking future orders with your planned capacity allows the logistics manager to identify when capacity might become an issue. By detecting these issues early, logistics managers are well positioned to tackle them in the most cost effective manner.

• Lower Overall Transportation Cost – Companies using Viewlocity’s Logistics Management solution improve their ability to negotiate new contracts with their service providers, thereby reducing their overall transportation cost. Our solution measures the providers’ ability to meet contract requirements by furnishing them with detailed scorecards and other analytic tools. Including score carding and performance measurements for service providers empowers companies to determine their best sourcing needs to reduce the overall cost when sourcing components.

• Reduce Charge Backs from Customers – Companies using Viewlocity’s Logistics Management solution reduce the number of charge backs from their customers. In today’s global environment, a company's supply chain is extended, and order sourcing no longer occurs at a single point but customer delivery must be on-time and complete. Our solution synchronizes shipments from multiple origins onto a single order into a manageable entity. Logistics managers are now equipped to react quickly to issues at any point, thereby maintaining or adjusting customer expectations. Having this ability lessens the amount of incomplete or delayed orders, thereby reducing the charge backs from customer.

• Reduce Expedited Freight Cost – Companies using Viewlocity’s Logistics Management solutions have realized a reduction in expedited freight costs. We provide not only visibility to product moving in the supply chain, but also inventory positioned throughout the supply chain. Unpredictable events, such as increased demand, can cause companies to panic and start expediting freight. Viewlocity’s Logistics Management solution surveys their entire supply chain and responds to the increased demand by having the intelligence to follow a work-flow alternative. These alternatives provide companies with other options to satisfy these demand spikes without having to expedite freight, thereby reducing their expedited freight costs.

• Improve Planner Productivity – Companies using Viewlocity’s Logistics Management see an increase in the productivity of their logistics organization. This is, in part, due to the fact that all the information that is required to support the logistics process is readily available in a single system. Further, the system provides proactive notifications of disruptions or opportunities and recommends potential options to respond to the event.