Transportation & logistics

QlikView for Transportation & Logistics

Deliver integrated, accurate, and timely intelligence across borders

The process of getting products delivered from one place to another—on time, efficiently, and at the lowest cost possible—is mission critical for transportation and logistics providers. Starting from razor-thin margins, profitability is often gained or missed by the volatile cost of fuel. In this extremely competitive business, one late delivery or unexpected freight surcharge can mean missed revenue opportunities and a lost customer forever.

Business Intelligence (BI) Visibility Leads to More Responsive and Agile Operations

For transportation and logistics businesses to achieve maximum profitability collaboration with a number of trading partners in various parts of the world, ranging from suppliers, carriers and government agencies must be enabled. The cornerstone of agile operations requires visibility to inventories in transit as well as any market events which will impact on-time delivery. When this Business Intelligence (BI) is visible inside and outside the enterprise, unexpected events can be rapidly assessed and mitigation plans can be quickly developed and implemented. Increasing the visibility of two-way information enables companies to achieve service goals in spite of market events that are impossible to control.

Using QlikView, leading transport and logistics businesses can:

  • Improve profitability with in-depth analysis of service and network portfolio across customers, suppliers and every step in the logistics chain
  • Track supplier performance against service level agreements to identify opportunities, negotiate intelligently, and tier contracts based on results
  • Analyze loads, routes, carriers, tendering, bookings, customs filings, freight audit and payment on a by-order basis to reduce cost variables
  • Improve cash flow and gain operational efficiencies by enabling streamlined data exploration across all enterprise functions
  • Streamline safety, traceability and compliance reporting with drill-down detail to documentation

The QlikView Customer Experience

Discover why more than 250 transportation and logistics businesses around the world, from air couriers to marine shippers, to rail and trucking companies, to warehousing and third-party logistics firms, have turned to QlikView and its unique, in-memory associative technology to overcome their Business Intelligence (BI) challenges and improve their performance.

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“Improved customer retention rates to 96%; deploy dashboards for each new customer to collaborate and manage services directly in less than 72 hours.”

“If we didn't have QlikView, tomorrow there would be chaos. We've been working with QlikView for so long that it is difficult to imagine how we could have done business without it.”

Per-Olov Johansson
Head of IT, Schenker

90% + reduction in time and effort spent on monthly performance reporting

“Now, corporate management can access a map that graphically shows results for each business unit. QlikView makes the information intuitively available even though the company uses many different software systems in the background. I don’t know how we managed without QlikView.”

Ulf Carlsson
Manager of the Administrative Functions, Bring Frigoscandia

Increased annual revenue 100% in two years, through improved customer satisfaction and successful project execution

“In the past, five of us each spent one whole day on the monthly reports. QlikView has helped us to reduce this, saving a total of 32.5 hours. When you combine this savings with the capability of running more efficient results review meetings, we have added one full working week back to every month!”

Marcel Smit, Senior Audit Manager, TNT Corporate Audit Services

Transportation Customers

Transportation Customers

“QlikView has given us a great advantage over our competitors. We’re now able to work closely with each of our customers to define their ideal KPIs. QlikView can then track these KPIs, providing timely and accurate service measurements that have never been available to them before.”

Chris Bale, Group IT Director, Target Express

Cash flow tracked with indicators for elapsed order-to-invoice time; container loads moving at full capacity for lower fuel costs

Achieved an 80% reduction in reporting and administrative time

Transparency required—across borders and systems

You need to manage an intricate chain of suppliers and customers—with their respective systems—and a deluge of data. Increasing regulations from environmental to cross-border controls and stricter compliance rules for hazardous goods and security clearance make transparent reporting more important than ever before. QlikView streamlines reporting of Business Intelligence (BI) to ensure accuracy and mitigate risk.

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