Logistics
Logistics accounts for approximately 11-15% of the product cost. Companies seek innovative ways to control costs while managing rising oil prices and regulations. Moreover, logistics and transportation is fragmented and involves several entities leading to complexities and disparate sources of information. Companies are challenged to assess the performance of their logistics business processes.
What's New
- Share BI: Allows sharing of BI content to collaborate with users for faster and effective decision making
- In-Memory Analysis: Brings simplicity, flexibility, and faster access to information for complex analysis even when offline
- Self-Service BI: Delivers power to business users to create, view, and seamlessly share compelling functional content
- Business Process Dashboards: Provides status updates through visual dashboards for at-a-glance business process view
- Personalized Alerts and Initiatives: Enables users to proactively monitor information by setting contextual and personalized alerts based on specific areas of interest
- Industry Best Practice: Functional content leveraging industry-standard concepts such as SCOR and xBSC
- Advanced Analysis: Analyze information in real-time and perform root cause analysis leveraging familiar tools including Microsoft Excel
- Enhanced Collaboration: Effective collaboration with partners using capabilities such as collaborative initiatives and business forms
Our Solution
Infosys’ Logistics Module adopts a platform view to consolidate data across disparate applications. It helps users gain end-to-end visibility and effectively manage their warehouse, inbound and outbound processes. It delivers bottom-line savings by facilitating effective transportation spend analysis, carrier contract adherence and carrier performance. It allows organizations to improve perfect order fulfillment to customers and improve service levels.
Features
Infosys’ Logistics Module facilitates complex analysis of information from multiple sources and transforms it into actionable intelligence to deliver business value through:
- Transportation and Spend Analysis: ensures all shipments are consolidated into Full Truck Loads (FTLs) to leverage economies of scale and reduce costs.
- Contract Compliance: ensures adherence to transportation contracts, minimizes non-contract spend to prevent leakage and identifies new opportunities for savings.
- Carrier Performance Analysis: analyzes carriers across various parameters and collaborates with them to consistently enhance their performance.
- Delivery and Shipment Accuracy: minimizes shipment errors to ensure deliveries made to customer(s) are accurate and available at the right time and place thereby resulting in savings.
Benefits
- Ensures measurable bottom-line savings and better control over spend and leakage
- Improves product margins with decreased transportation costs
- Increases transportation contract compliance, enabling cost savings
- Enables standardization of operational processes and accelerated analysis for decision making
- Offers visibility into exceptions and information for effective decision making
- Enhances performance management by leveraging a balanced scorecard framework and metric management