INGRAM MICRO
Flexible real-time selection of logistics services providers for bulk shipping
Industry: DistributionSpecification: Leading wholesaler for information technology products with more than 30,000 specialized trade customers
Agencies: Worldwide in 35 countries
Sales: unknown
Employees: unknown
Requirement: Software solution for transport management in bulk shipping
Requirement profile:
- Increase the transparency and acceleration of the flow of goods
- Better control possibilities – also for individual transport agreements
- Reduce the amount of manual complexity and automatic services provider search
- Speed up and simplify invoicing processes
Force is mass times acceleration
For both industry and retailers today, flexibility and faster shipping speeds are the main performance and competitive criteria. The challenge has for a long time ceased to lie in the handling of high shipping volumes. No, the logistics competence of these consignors is demonstrated in the short-term acceleration of individual consignments out of this bulk shipping volume. For customers whose value-creation process is heavily reliant on delivery punctuality and transport reliability, this is a necessary condition. To fulfil it, the consignor first of all needs to be able to identify the relevant consignments from the bulk of the shipping volume and manage them separately in line with individual transport agreements.25,000 consignments a day
INGRAM MICRO, one of the world’s leading IT wholesalers realizes this individual transport management with the forwarder module from EURO-LOG.Via a sophisticated concept of client groups and forwarding rules, the provision of consignments to 350 specific logistics services providers can be configured simply and in real time. The client concept enables the management of consignments on the basis of customer attributes. In this way, shipments destined for defined customer groups or individual customers can be assigned to specific logistics providers in each case. To exclusively allocate consignments to the desired services provider, all that’s necessary is to enter the customer number of the consignee in the configuration of the forwarder module – and this is done in real time, during normal business operations!
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