Bring your supply chain to the next level with data solutions
Take advantage of your supply chain data with 4flow’s technology and process expertise
Data-driven supply chain
Use existing data to power next-level insights
Advanced optimization
Uncover new potential and minimize risk across your supply chain
Improved digital maturity
Discover further benefits with 4flow’s data expertise
Put your supply chain data to work
4flow supports businesses to solve data challenges with highly customized data solutions spanning:
- Data technology: use advanced software to process and analyze data, create transparency, and automate key tasks
- Data-driven processes: integrate data technology into your decision-making processes
- Data expertise: get support from skilled supply chain and IT professionals to get the most out of your data with optimal technology and processes
From raw data to actionable insights
In today’s data-driven world, supply chain success heavily depends on how effectively you can transform raw data into relevant and actionable insights. Many organizations have access to large but underutilized datasets. Using this information effectively to improve planning and execution processes can be a big challenge.
Improving supply chain maturity
At the core of 4flow’s data solutions is a commitment to increase your supply chain maturity with targeted use of your supply chain data. Through a combination of services and technology, we help organizations address common data challenges, such as:
- Unused datasets
- Bottlenecks in assessing and adopting advanced technologies
- Unstructured data
- Lack of capacity or expertise to fully benefit from the potential of data
As a neutral partner, 4flow works with companies globally to develop data-driven solutions that bring measurable value and ultimately improve your supply chain’s maturity.
Data expertise at your side
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Fast implementation and ROI
Go-live within 6 months and ROI in just one year
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Long-term cost reduction
Sustainable savings through data-driven optimization
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Neutral data handling
Unbiased and secure data processing with independent moderation expertise
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Transformation expertise
More than two decades of industry-leading and data-driven supply chain optimization expertise
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Flexible solutions
Customized to your business and industry
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Integrated IT solutions
For seamless collaboration of all supply chain segments and data-driven decision-making
Areas where 4flow can provide support
Data & cost analysis
- Data & cost analysis
- Transportation management
Master data quality improvement
Many businesses struggle to ensure the quality of their master data, especially when their planning database contains a significant amount of incorrect data. These errors can disrupt planning processes and lead to critical mistakes.
To solve this, 4flow focuses on your specific data challenges and implements easy-to-use tools and processes to automatically check for completeness, uniqueness, and consistency of data.
Additionally, a KPI dashboard is set up to provide transparency on error rates, while a process for data correction is put in place.
Your benefits
- Identification of missing data
- Transparency about data implausibility
- Visualization of data quality
Intelligent document processing
Transportation and supply chain data often come in various formats, from delivery notices or invoices to packing lists and more. This variety makes extracting and transforming this data time-consuming and prone to errors.
To resolve this challenge, 4flow supports businesses with an intelligent document processing solution that uses advanced technologies for accurate data extraction. Extracted data are automatically transformed into the output format you need for use in data warehouses, SharePoint, Excel, or other environments.
Your benefits
- Increased quality of transport order and load data
- Greater information accuracy
- Fewer errors and manual transactions
- Saved time and increased efficiency
Automated freight cost audit
Verifying freight invoices in unstructured files like PDFs or scans is time-consuming and prone to errors, which makes audits difficult. Varying rate cards, languages, and document quality can add an extra layer of complexity.
4flow supports your freight audit by transforming this data into a structured, digital format. With a customized solution that integrates various data sources and formats, the process becomes seamless, enables accurate verification, and creates opportunities for cost savings in your supply chain.
Your benefits
- Simplified and automated freight cost audit process
- Additional cost savings opportunities
- Streamlined access to all data in one system
- Increased transparency
Many businesses struggle to ensure the quality of their master data, especially when their planning database contains a significant amount of incorrect data. These errors can disrupt planning processes and lead to critical mistakes.
To solve this, 4flow focuses on your specific data challenges and implements easy-to-use tools and processes to automatically check for completeness, uniqueness, and consistency of data.
Additionally, a KPI dashboard is set up to provide transparency on error rates, while a process for data correction is put in place.
Your benefits
- Identification of missing data
- Transparency about data implausibility
- Visualization of data quality
Transportation and supply chain data often come in various formats, from delivery notices or invoices to packing lists and more. This variety makes extracting and transforming this data time-consuming and prone to errors.
To resolve this challenge, 4flow supports businesses with an intelligent document processing solution that uses advanced technologies for accurate data extraction. Extracted data are automatically transformed into the output format you need for use in data warehouses, SharePoint, Excel, or other environments.
Your benefits
- Increased quality of transport order and load data
- Greater information accuracy
- Fewer errors and manual transactions
- Saved time and increased efficiency
Verifying freight invoices in unstructured files like PDFs or scans is time-consuming and prone to errors, which makes audits difficult. Varying rate cards, languages, and document quality can add an extra layer of complexity.
4flow supports your freight audit by transforming this data into a structured, digital format. With a customized solution that integrates various data sources and formats, the process becomes seamless, enables accurate verification, and creates opportunities for cost savings in your supply chain.
Your benefits
- Simplified and automated freight cost audit process
- Additional cost savings opportunities
- Streamlined access to all data in one system
- Increased transparency
Transportation rating
Accurately determining transportation rates for non-contracted tours is a common challenge. Without market-aligned rates, cost-saving estimates become difficult, creating inefficiencies in planning and decision-making.
4flow uses artificial intelligence to deliver transportation ratings based on market data, industry pricing levels and rate cards. This process includes benchmarking current transportation costs to discover realistic saving opportunities and provide precise estimations for your transportation network.
Your benefits
- 8% cost reduction potential on average
- Improved accuracy of business cases and cost savings estimations
- Fewer planning cycles thanks to increased initial accuracy
Transportation forecasting
Imprecise capacity forecasts lead to shortages, high costs, or under-utilization. These issues disrupt planning and prevent your team from cost-efficient capacity management.
4flow develops machine learning models to deliver precise and reliable capacity forecasts for your organization. These forecasts are used to optimize transportation capacity orders with freight forwarders, enabling smoother and more efficient planning.
Your benefits
- Up to 50% lower costs for excess capacity
- Up to 10% lower costs for capacity shortages
- Increased stability in planning and transport order process
- Proactive identification of bottlenecks
Transportation risk management
Managing transportation risks becomes more difficult and expensive the longer an exception goes undetected.
Based on historic data, 4flow’s AI algorithm detects potential future exceptions in your network before they happen. By integrating these insights into a proactive process, 4flow helps you prevent issues and mitigate transportation risks early on.
Your benefits
- Up to 90% certainty in predicting transportation disruptions
- Reducing actual exceptions by up to 20%
- Increased reaction time for exception handling
- Proactive communication instead of reactive action
- Reduced cost and effort for risk management measures
Accurately determining transportation rates for non-contracted tours is a common challenge. Without market-aligned rates, cost-saving estimates become difficult, creating inefficiencies in planning and decision-making.
4flow uses artificial intelligence to deliver transportation ratings based on market data, industry pricing levels and rate cards. This process includes benchmarking current transportation costs to discover realistic saving opportunities and provide precise estimations for your transportation network.
Your benefits
- 8% cost reduction potential on average
- Improved accuracy of business cases and cost savings estimations
- Fewer planning cycles thanks to increased initial accuracy
Imprecise capacity forecasts lead to shortages, high costs, or under-utilization. These issues disrupt planning and prevent your team from cost-efficient capacity management.
4flow develops machine learning models to deliver precise and reliable capacity forecasts for your organization. These forecasts are used to optimize transportation capacity orders with freight forwarders, enabling smoother and more efficient planning.
Your benefits
- Up to 50% lower costs for excess capacity
- Up to 10% lower costs for capacity shortages
- Increased stability in planning and transport order process
- Proactive identification of bottlenecks
Managing transportation risks becomes more difficult and expensive the longer an exception goes undetected.
Based on historic data, 4flow’s AI algorithm detects potential future exceptions in your network before they happen. By integrating these insights into a proactive process, 4flow helps you prevent issues and mitigate transportation risks early on.
Your benefits
- Up to 90% certainty in predicting transportation disruptions
- Reducing actual exceptions by up to 20%
- Increased reaction time for exception handling
- Proactive communication instead of reactive action
- Reduced cost and effort for risk management measures
Real-world transportation management solutions
Discover how leading global businesses collaborate with 4flow to improve efficiency, boost agility and reduce costs across transportation processes
- Resideo
- Magna