Business Intelligence
This is a brief list of predictive and actionable items your transportation (BI) can provide:
Accelerate and improve decision making
Drive profits
Compare the rate paid vs. the rate charged to the customer
Help you gain a Competitive Advantage
Be seen by your customers as more advanced and tech savvy than they
Spot customer buying trends
Prioritize internal projects
Create reports so each department can see their information
See shipments broken down by region: sales or management areas
Eliminate manual data entry for reporting
Cost per customer to see what % the freight is to total delivered customer costs
Inbound - % shipped to your customer from each supplier
Least cost analysis – see if there are better options
What if – how successful changes or new ventures will be before committing
Load optimization/Consolidation
Compare the business’s values with what the customer actually receives.
Carrier Performance
Forecasting demand
Finding correlations in customers/regions… for marketing
Customization