Analyzing, visualizing and realizing possible savings even faster with an integrated transportation management system

For globally leading businesses, transportation costs often make up more than half of their logistics costs. This creates considerable potential for cost reduction. With the integrated transportation management system (iTMS), 4flow continuously optimizes end-to-end logistics networks for its customers, while significantly reducing costs and increasing service performance.

The ongoing globalization of businesses has increased the complexity in the planning and management of intercontinental supplier and distribution networks – and with that, the need for digitization. A lack of transparency, falling service levels and increasing coordination effort clearly indicate the need for a suitable operating model and the associated technology. Any gaps here lead to increasing transportation costs.

Increase transparency and enable active management

With the 4flow iTMS, 4flow offers a modular solution for integrated transportation management. With transportation network visualization, a global operating model, the practical integration of different additional modules, end-to-end transparency in real time, state of the art exception handling and active management of transportation networks – from planning to controlling and invoicing – costs can be significantly reduced and managed. In addition, the degree of maturity and digitization of transportation management is increased sustainably to meet expectations.

Adjust and optimize transportation networks

With the continuously developed 4flow iTMS, real-time tracking enables utilization and costs in transportation networks to be regularly adjusted and optimized. In strategic transportation planning, costs are determined and concepts are developed, while routes are planned and adapted according to updated transportation volumes. A wide variety of influencing factors are identified and considered in transportation optimization, including utilization, tariff and service provider selection as well as transportation frequency. And in order to achieve synergies from consolidation efforts, all transport lanes in a network are considered.

Analyze and visualize data faster

In order for decision-makers to recognize new savings potential even faster or to track new developments in operational networks, 4flow now uses a completely new reporting and performance management tool in the iTMS.

The new analysis platform enables users to gain valuable insights into the data which can be shared in appealing and convincing views and dashboards, and to make data-driven decisions.

4flow’s best practice KPI dashboards

The integration of a business intelligence solution in the 4flow iTMS enables different data analysis functions, convincing KPI dashboards and customer-specific reports.