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The transportation and distribution world is a rapidly changing landscape marked by unprecedented complexity. Increased global trade makes logistics supply chains even longer and more dynamic, and customer expectations continue to rise. Whether shipping from Chicago or Shanghai, companies must be able to collaborate more effectively with their key trading partners—carriers, suppliers, or customers—to drive maximum efficiencies while delivering world-class service. Consequently, organizations must consider these business processes more strategically and look for more refined and adaptable closed-loop solutions.
i2 solutions for transportation and distribution have been designed and proven to empower transportation as a strategic enterprise by enabling industry best practices in the areas of design, procurement, planning, execution, and visibility. These solutions consistently create quantifiable value by synchronizing those critical transportation and distribution processes across multiple modes, enterprises, and borders, while driving optimal operating efficiencies and greater service performance.
The i2 Solution: i2 Transportation Planning and Management
i2 Transportation Planning and Management is a solution designed to provide planning, execution, management, and monitoring of a complex transportation life cycle.
This solution can offer the tools needed to optimize and execute shipments, proactively monitor exceptions, manage match-pay and auto-pay settlements, as well as provide analytical performance management for transport activities.
i2 Transportation Planning and Management uses configurable business rules and appropriate constraints to transform order fulfillment, procurement, and replenishment plans into cost optimized and executable transportation plans that adhere to facility inventory and transportation network constraints. By managing the entire transportation life cycle, this solution can help reduce costs, improve transport efficiency, and enhance customer satisfaction.
Capabilities of the i2 Transportation Planning and Management solution can include:
- Optimized shipments and loads for minimum cost and maximum utilization
- Web, EDI, fax, or email communications for orders and tenders
- Support for merge-in-transit, dynamic hub selection, and cost allocation
- Support for multiple languages and international deployments
- Proactive monitoring for exception-based, in-transit visibility
- Automated 3D load plans, carrier selection, and network-wide transport plans
- Analytics and comprehensive reporting features
- FreightMatrix -hosted service option
Benefits of i2 Transportation Planning and Management can include:
- Achieve substantial transportation costs savings
- Accelerate return on investment
- Increase visibility, asset utilization, and inventory efficiencies
- Improve customer satisfaction
- Achieve better labor productivity
- Establish transactional accountability for audit and compliance
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