Supply chain visibility software
Enhance your business with a cutting-edge supply chain visibility software, featuring real-time freight tracking and machine-learning analytics. With an AI-powered automation solution, you optimize supply chain performance and foster collaboration, transforming your supply chain into a strategic advantage. Join thousands of companies that trust project44 to streamline operations and reduce friction in their supply chains. Explore the benefits.
01 What is Supply Chain Visibility Software?
Supply chain visibility software is cutting-edge technology that optimizes logistics by integrating real-time shipment tracking with powerful analytics and operations capabilities to help transform your supply chain. Supply Chain visibility solutions leverage GPS/ELD devices on vehicles to provide the most up-to-date information on shipments in motion.
Supply Chain Visibility Solutions Should Have:
Multimodal
Visibility into all modes of transportation including trucking, rail, ocean, air transportation
End-to-End
Monitoring of all stages of your supply chain, from raw material procurement to your customer’s doorstep
Quality & Compliance Monitoring
Real-time insights to prevent product quality and compliance issues
Supplier Performance Metrics
Monitoring of supplier performance with actionable insights
Responsive
Decision-Making
Real-time data enabling quick decisions in response to changes in demand, disruptions, or unexpected events
Modes of supply chain visibility
Supply chain visibility is essential to ensure that products move efficiently and safely from the point of origin to the final destination. This is accomplished by integrating directly with carriers, forwarders, NVOCCs, and other data providers.
Each mode of visibility in the supply chain—ocean, air, rail, truck, facilities, terminals, and ports—plays a crucial role in ensuring efficient and safe operations. The integration of advanced technologies, such as AI, IoT, and visibility platforms, is essential to optimize management and overcome the challenges of the modern supply chain.
Ocean
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Since ocean is the most common and cost-effective method for shipping large quantities of goods internationally, real-time visibility for shipments moving via sea is critical for global supply chains.
Air
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Visibility in air transport is essential for high-value or time-sensitive goods. Real-time visibility ensures that shippers and recipients know the location and status.
Rail
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When it comes to choosing between rail and truckload transit, rail is the more sustainable and cost-effective choice. But without visibility, you end up sacrificing on predictability. Get the best of all worlds with real-time visibility for every rail shipment with wagon-level granularity and predictive ETAs, dramatically increasing reliability of rail transit.
Truck
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Visibility in road transport is critical for last-mile delivery and the movement of goods across land regions.
Facilities
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Visibility in facilities, such as warehouses and distribution centers, is crucial for efficient inventory and operations management.
Terminals
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Cargo terminals, especially in ports and airports, are critical transshipment points in the supply chain. Visibility at these points ensures smooth operations.
Ports
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Port visibility is essential for managing the movement of goods through port facilities, which are crucial entry and exit points in global trade.
02 Features of Supply Chain Visibility Solutions
When evaluating Supply Chain Visibility Solutions, you should look for the following critical features:
Inventory visibility
Associate shipments with orders and the SKUs in them so your teams can find the information they need by the identifier that matters most to them.
Modal stitching
Track shipments from door-to-door, including AI-powered ETAs for the milestones that matter most, with every leg stitched together in a single easy-to-parse view.
Robust analytics
Get real-time and historic insights about your shipments, carriers, and lanes for better decision-making.
Shared visibility
Grant visibility access to anyone who needs it, including internal teams, customers, or partners. Whether you want to share details of a single order or shipment, or automatically share based on set rules, the right visibility solution should be able to do it.
Carrier tools
Products like self-service onboarding, shipment analytics, tracking quality diagnostics, and more help carriers provide high-quality tracking data.
Data quality dashboards
All network parties can self-serve to diagnose and fix common tracking issues with ML-powered insights about carrier performance.
03 Benefits of supply chain visibility
The right visibility software leverages real-time data from GPS, ELD, and telematics networks, combining it with historical machine-learning analytics to generate highly accurate arrival times.
Benefits of a supply chain visibility solution include:
Real-time
visibility
Detailed, real-time, end-to-end, order-level visibility tracks all inventory in motion, across all modes and all geographies.
Centralized
workflow
Transportation execution is improved thanks to a centralized workflow for procuring rates and tendering bookings across all modes, with access to a dynamic carrier network and insights like reliability and tracking quality metrics.
Smart
facilities
Smart, automated facilities and yards that streamline appointment scheduling and gate check-in/out processes make it easy to know how much labor to allocate for a variety of yard activities, so you can reduce trailer wait times at the gate and better track assets in the yard (e.g., loading/unloading, assigning dock doors to trailers, identifying priority shipments).
Improved customer experience
The last mile of shipping leverages eCommerce logistics, real-time visibility and exception management to deliver a superior CX (e.g., proactive shipment notifications and requests for clarifications delivered in real time to each customer’s preferred communication channel).
04 Eliminate supply chain friction with real-time visibility
Supply chain visibility software is cutting-edge technology that optimizes logistics by integrating real-time shipment tracking with powerful analytics and operations capabilities to help transform your supply chain. Supply Chain visibility solutions leverage GPS/ELD devices on vehicles to provide the most up-to-date information on shipments in motion.
But expectations like those are unrealistic if you’re using old supply chain systems and processes. That’s because:
Siloed data is incomplete, hard to access and terribly difficult to unify
Too many critical roes rely on guesswork in lieu of real-time data and insights
Supply chain workers are stuck in old, manual ways of doing things take much longer to do everything that needs to be done
At project44, we refer to these obstacles and inefficiencies that slow down or disrupt the smooth flow of goods, information or finances through the supply chain as “supply chain friction.”
Supply chain friction manifests a whole host of critical business problems — things like higher facility overhead costs and the inability to: view inventory in motion; obtain real-time, bookable rates for carriers on specific lanes; and proactively resolve exceptions for your customers.
Because of supply chain friction, supply chain leaders like you never have enough information to know exactly what needs to be done. When looking for a supply chain visibility solution, ensure that the solution can help you overcome this friction.
05 Visibility customer use cases
End-to-end visibility is the best way to combat the biggest challenges facing your supply chain today: operational inefficiency from incomplete data and overreliance on manual processes, high costs from fees and frequent expedites, inability to accurately plan inventory, and lost business from failure to meet customer expectations. But don’t just take our word for it—read how others have used supply chain visibility solutions to achieve high-velocity supply chain operations.
Visibility is the most important factor when it comes to business performance in a retail organization, knowing where your product is and when it will land, allows you to be more efficient with costs. Companies that have a handle on the visibility of their products are always going to perform better than those who don’t.
Jamie Bragg
CSCO/EVP at Tailored Brands
100%
increased receipt plans—up from 60%
90%
improved carrier compliance
Our partnership with project44 allows us to provide detailed tracking information to our customers including where a load has been, where it’s stopped, and where it’s headed. All of this is done via a seamless integration between project44 and our own telematics system. This automatic process frees up time for our team to focus on customer support, enablement, and new business.
Alex Paterson
Business Development
Efret
06 project44 Visibility in Movement
project44’s supply chain visibility Software is designed to work with you. Movement by project44 is an advanced visibility platform, API-first, and delivers a cutting-edge technology for how you work: whether in a TMS, other system, or using our user interface.
All of it is possible because only project44:
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Combines automation with embedded ML algorithms to reduce supply chain friction and achieve high velocity
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Has unified and integrated more of the supply chain than any other company in history
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Maintains the largest carrier network in existence today (e.g., tracks more than one billion shipments annually across more than 246,000 carriers, tracks 99% of last-mile carriers in the USA and operates in over 180 countries and over 20 languages)
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Applies patented AI algorithms to the world’s largest ocean data set to deliver predictive insights — including ETAs — that are more timely, complete and accurate than those provided by carriers
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Integrates with carriers, forwarders and NVOCCs, so you have granular visibility from origin to destination — including pre- and on-carriage moves — in a single view and can link shipments to orders with SKU-level detail for unmatched management of inventory in transit
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Has developed a connected ecosystem consisting of more than 2,100 telematics and more than 80 TMS/ERP integrations; more than 10 billion monthly supply chain data points; the world’s only visibility into/out of China; and global partnerships with SAP, LBN, OTM, BlueYonder and Google
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