Digital Control Tower
PLATFORM
Integrated logistics management system for increased efficiency and productivity.
For logistics teams who need to increase visibility, improve service provider and sustainability performance.
A digital control tower enables better planning, decision-making and proactive event management, underpinned by analytics you can trust.
Features
Planning
- Digital Twin of Planning systems
- Digital Twin of ERPs – Orders
- Digital Twin of WMSs – Inventory
Expediting
- Single order update
- Bulk order update
Shipment Building
- Release to pack
- Package Builder
- Shipment Builder
Freight Booking
- Logistics Requests – Manual
- Logistics Requests – Autonomous
- Defined workscope for each shipment
- Document upload
- Single shipment split between multiple logistics service providers
- Rate contracts upload and usage
- Preferred marketplace for spot rates
- Simple and detailed quotes
- Reverse auctions for competitive bidding
- Shipment solution simulator
- Auto match of solution vs. required at site date
- Projected completion of each milestone
- All types of cargo
- All modes of transport
- Part and full air and ocean charters
- International and domestic shipments, anywhere in the world
- Approval workflows
- Advanced rules engine
- Control Tower user grouping
Tracking and Execution
- Door to door tracking of shipments via all modes of transport
- Consolidated tracking at enterprise/country/control tower/project level
- Tracking at order level
- Track contents of each shipment
- Communication hub
- Push notifications
- Shipment document repository
- Document version control
- Digitally secure documents
- Shipment delayed notifications
- Revised ETA projections
- Dispatch and mobile app for truckers
- QR code based 2 party proof of delivery
- Mobile app tracking
- Location services based tracking of trucks
- Vessel tracking
- Container tracking
- Rating of Logistics Service Provider performance per shipment
- Control Tower team configuration
Invoicing
- Change orders for deviation in workscope
- Change orders for detention, demurrage and statutory charges
- Logistics Service Provider upload of freight invoices + supportings
- Digital audit of freight invoices
- Tracking of invoice payment status
- Tracking of invoice due date
- Communication hub for AP and AR teams
Data Command Center
- Executive dashboards
- Operations dashboards
- Logistics Service Provider dashboards
- Supplier performance evaluation tools
- Purchase/Sales order analysis
- Freight booking analytics
- Logistics operations analytics
- Logistics Service Provider performance
- Control Tower performance analytics
- Change Order analytics
- Freight invoice analytics
- Cost and savings analytics
- Carbon emissions reporting
- Customized reporting and dashboards
Unifying logistics control towers
customer success story
Unifying 5 logistics control towers under a single digital logistics platform eliminated highly manual work and surfaced real insights, driving impressive efficiency gains and allowing resources to be redeployed to more strategic areas of focus.
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