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World’s Leading Automotive Oem & Supplier Shrinks Freight Procurement Costs by 10% and Saves 75% in Personhours Spent
技术
- 功能应用 - 企业资源规划系统 (ERP)
- 分析与建模 - 预测分析
适用行业
- 汽车
- 运输
适用功能
- 物流运输
- 采购
用例
- 车队管理
- 预测性维护
- 供应链可见性(SCV)
- 仓库自动化
服务
- 系统集成
- 软件设计与工程服务
- 数据科学服务
挑战
The customer was struggling with manual processes throughout the shipments’ lifecycle. They were challenged by poor freight negotiations with carriers and freight forwarders on lack of data-driven insights, and a centralized system to effectively manage multimodal shipments across all the group companies. The top 10 challenges specifically cited by our customer were: Multiple rounds of negotiations leading to error-prone freight procurement, Poor system interoperability and data inconsistencies, Siloed communications between key logistics stakeholders, Poor container visibility for order consolidation, Lack of transparency over market rates and cost deviations, Lack of analytics and monitoring for data-driven decisions, Disparate sources for multimodal shipment tracking, Lack of timely alerts and insights leading to cost leakages, Manual processes leading to higher turnaround times, Inefficient document and invoice management processes.
关于客户
Our customer is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of components for the automotive and transport industries. With a global presence of 270 facilities in 41 countries, they focus on being a single-window, technology empowering 4PL solution provider for all their group companies with zero service failure assurance.
解决方案
The customer needed an intelligent solution that integrates with their current systems to drive unified visibility and automate shipment processes across companies. Shipsy’s automation-led and ERP integrated, end-to-end international logistics solution met their requirements out of the box. Key Solution Highlights: Enterprise-wide unified portals to create, float, compare, and confirm spots and freight rates, Single platform to collaborate and communicate with internal and external stakeholders for effective shipment execution, Standardized and automated documentation and invoice reconciliation, Automated, multimodal tracking of shipments, Insightful dashboards with advanced analytics and reporting. Shipsy’s International Logistics Management platform was a one-stop-shop solution for the customer to automate and optimize processes — from spot inquiries to advanced reporting — addressing all their shipment management needs. Our smart logistics management platform empowered the customer with: Up to 10% cost reduction in freight procurement, 75% person-hours saved in the overall procurement process, Instant access of rates leading to up to 2 days faster business closure process, A standardized process flow for shipment execution and documentation, bringing down the error rate by 70%, Up to 50% reduction in incidental costs, Up to 2 days faster BL release resulting in an improved working capital cycle, Faster, automation-led invoice reconciliation processes resulting in up to 80% person-hour savings.
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