Integrated, Easy-To-Use & Timely Intelligence
Whether transportation is your business, or just one part, balancing the high cost of fuel against tight service levels and margins is difficult, as is managing an intricate chain of suppliers and customers – with their respective systems – and a deluge of data. Add more regulations, from environmental to cross-border controls, and stricter compliance to the mix. Now, try to get a quick, single snapshot of how the business is doing today or how a particular order is tracking.
Companies like Toll Dnata and Border Express are solving some of their most pressing business challenges, as well as simplifying their information challenges, with Inside Info’s Logistics, Sales and Supply Chain dashboards. These visual dashboards go beyond traditional business intelligence solutions to provide an extraordinarily sophisticated interactive analysis capability that is highly visual, affordable, fast to deploy, simple to use, and easy to change.
Inside Info works with transport and logistics companies to provide management systems that give employees including those at the grass-roots, access to wide ranging data sources in a simple to use, consolidated way to improve decisions about suppliers, cargo, fleet, service levels, margins and many other aspects of operations. Providing the ability to see summarised detail to transaction level detail, on demand.
We work with transport companies providing:
A one-screen view of all the facts: Ensuring cross functional visibility, integrating financial, customer, fleet, warehouse, asset management and other business data so you have a clear view of where to optimise for efficiency and growth.
Easy monitoring of Service Levels: Track supplier performance against service levels to identify opportunities, minimise wastage, negotiate intelligently and tier contracts based on results.
Interactive analysis of Freight: Analyse sales, loads, routes, carriers, tendering, labour bookings, customs filings, freight audit and payment on a by-order to invoice line level basis to reduce cost variables.
Streamline safety, traceability and compliance reporting with drill-down detail to documentation.
Proactive Demand Planning: Understand demand, material movement and forecasting to match demand with supply.
Labour Analysis: Can be the largest cost in a transport business, understand freight per man hour, average yield per kilo and revenue by cargo type.
Understand warehouse efficiency - Understand your picking and packing rates and be able to tie customer service issues back to activities.
Near real-time visibility into operations: instead of out-of-date reports. On-demand self-serve analysis of data, often replacing hundreds of OLAP based reports and empowering business users to perform their own analysis reducing IT support by up to 90%. Users report 54% less time accessing information and 51% less time analysing it. (IDC).
Sub-second query response on very large data volumes into the hundreds of million records without losing transactional level detail, with data refreshing as often as your underlying source systems.
Inside Info works with transport and logistics companies like Border Express and Toll Dnata. We help transport providers in a matter of weeks to deliver simple to use interactive performance dashboards that improve analysis into areas like supply chain, sales, profitability, service levels and labour. While globally there are over 250 of the world’s leading transport companies using QlikView.
With QlikView, TNT Corporate Audit Services now analyses the reliability of financial and time-registration data, as well as its custom-defined KPIs - all focused on driving corporate profitability. This gives management access to up-to-date management information at a glance, anytime. TNT achieved an 80% reduction in reporting and administration time as a result.
With QlikView pulling data from Excel and various financial and administration systems running on IBM System i (AS/400) servers, Schenker analyses supply chain, finance and Six Sigma process quality information – all with a focus on reducing operating costs and improving corporate performance.
