Orchestrating global logistics
Customer Case Study
By unifying tasks previously handled across a fragmented and heavily manual set of tools, on a single orchestration platform, a global company with an annual freight spend of over $60M achieved previously impossible levels of efficiency, transparency, visibility and control.
A vastly complex international logistics operation lacked efficiency, transparency, and control
The Challenge
Our customer had a large international logistics operation with an annual freight spend of over $60M.
This included a complex network of 8 global LSPs managing 12 separate hubs in 5 different countries receiving deliveries from thousands of suppliers and ship goods to the customer’s operations sites across the globe.
A fragmented set of technologies, all operating in silos, were being used to manage operations, including:
- An enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform
- Multiple warehouse management systems
- 8 separate LSP tracking systems
This broken technology stack resulted in a badly fractured logistics operation which lacked efficiency, transparency, visibility, control and agility.
Integration resulted in a unified view of orders, inventory, and logistics requests across all locations
Digital twinning into e2log of order and inventory data from the ERP and multiple warehouse management systems across all 12 hubs began, using simple and easy to deploy ingestion techniques, delivering a unified view of orders and inventory across all locations.
Logistics requests started being created via the e2log platform – as opposed to manually – for more efficient and trackable sharing with LSPs.
All 8 LSP tracking systems were integrated into e2log, eliminating manually syncing and unifying data and collaboration within a single user interface.
A true orchestration platform unified logistics operations, leading to dramatic improvements
The Result
The entire logistics process, from the time orders were issued to suppliers, to the goods being received from these suppliers and eventually being shipped to the operation sites across the globe, was completely orchestrated through a single platform.
Unifying the entire global logistics operation under a single platform delivered unprecedented efficiency, transparency, visibility and control.
More real-world results
Outcomes
Outcomes: Electrical Manufacturing
21%
reduction in logistics costs
We’re helping the global leader in electrical and digital building infrastructures digitalize and transform a logistics program that spans thirty-five countries and over a dozen logistics providers. They were up and running just four weeks after kickoff.
Outcomes: Heavy Engineering
70%
increase in process efficiency
Through rapid deployment of logistics request automation and a flexible shipment builder, we helped a heavy engineering company operating on six continents improve dramatically the efficiency of their logistics operations.
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