FourKites® Offers Industry-First Network-Wide Visibility Solution
Shippers Can Now Achieve Full Visibility Across their Transportation Network, Including Managed and Unmanaged Freight
CHICAGO, May 29, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- FourKites®, the leader in predictive supply chain visibility, today announced the industry's first product that provides companies with real-time visibility across their network, including freight that they do not manage. With FourKites' new Network VisibilitySM product, shippers can see real-time location updates on their vendor-managed inbound and customer-pickup outbound freight, in addition to the managed freight they already track with FourKites. This gives companies full visibility across their supply chains, enabling them to enhance warehouse operations, reduce yard congestion, and improve carrier and driver productivity.
Vendor-managed shipments can comprise up to 70 percent of a large company's inbound freight. Without real-time visibility, top-line savings can disappear without warning, and create unmanageable exposure to operational inefficiencies and labor and detention costs—all while straining even the strongest supplier relationships.
Before today, transportation leaders were limited to sweeping, reactive decisions to manage these challenges. Even with the latest transportation management systems, unmanaged freight remained a black box of uncertainty, and an enterprise-wide visibility solution remained out of reach. FourKites' new Network Visibility solution leverages the company's vast network of shippers and carriers to allow for comprehensive visibility across the entire supply chain, including freight managed by external vendors. The solution normalizes payer and facility records across supply chains, masks sensitive information; automatically detects and draws potential connections with suppliers and receivers, and makes it easy to share freight visibility in a controlled environment between select suppliers and receivers through a single discovery dashboard.
"This is a significant breakthrough that eliminates blind spots for most shippers, allowing them to track unmanaged freight with the same level of detail with which they have been tracking managed freight," said Mathew Elenjickal, CEO of FourKites. "The average FourKites customer ships a significant portion of their freight to other FourKites customers. Now, they can quickly and easily collaborate through a single visibility platform to achieve significant operational efficiencies."
"We are constantly striving to create efficiencies in our supply chain, especially when it comes to knowing exactly when we can expect products to arrive from our vendors into our distribution network," said Brett Frankenberg, VP of Supply Chain Planning & Inventory Management at Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated. "The ability to track SKU-level details across both managed and unmanaged freight with FourKites' Network Visibility has enhanced our warehouse and labor productivity significantly. In addition, it has helped us improve our in-stock position and has also provided supply planners with a self-service approach to find their loads."
Since launching in 2014, FourKites has pioneered the industry shift to real-time predictive visibility, enabling shippers to improve on-time delivery and optimize supply chains based on actionable data and prescriptive recommendations. FourKites has built the industry's most robust network, with more than 260 of the world's top shippers, including 18 of the top-20 food and beverage companies and four of the top-five CPG companies. FourKites currently tracks more than 500,000 shipments every day.
About FourKites
FourKites is the largest predictive supply chain visibility platform, delivering real-time visibility and predictive analytics for the broadest network of Global 1000 companies and third-party logistics firms. Using a proprietary algorithm to calculate shipment arrival times, FourKites enables customers to lower operating costs, improve on-time performance and strengthen end-customer relationships. With a network of more than four million GPS/ELD devices, FourKites covers all modes, including truckload, LTL, ocean, rail, intermodal, last mile and parcel. The platform is optimized for mobile and equipped with market-leading end-to-end security.
To learn more, visit http://www.fourkites.com.
FourKites and Network Visibility are service marks of FourKites, Inc.
SOURCE FourKites
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