Shipper
Freightgate's Logistics Cloud Platform, known as the Freightgate Universe, is the result of increased demand by beneficial cargo owners in their quest to improve control of their supply-chain.
As a shipper in today's fast paced global economy, you know how important it is to have timely and accurate information at your finger tips. Whether planning your supply chain at the strategic level or trying to hold your carriers accountable for accurate billing, there is no substitute for having the facts and the tools in place to use those facts to your competitive advantage. Moreover, to provide the maximum benefit and be readily accepted into corporate culture, those tools must work seamlessly together and easily integrate with IT infrastructure already in place.
Freightgate fully understands this and has shaped our solutions accordingly - to best align with the major challenges facing shippers in the current market.
Performance Management
Automated monitoring enables agile human response
Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.
- Harold Geneen
This simple truth is why Freightgate® built end to end collaborative visibility into the Freightgate Universe, the industry leading supply chain and logistics management platform.
The question is not whether unplanned events will occur with the potential to disrupt your value chain. Rather, when the inevitable surprise occurs, how quickly will you know and how agile will your organization’s corrective response be? Mr. Geneen knew that his customers were looking for real performance, and so are yours.
But agility in the information age requires world class technology tools, and that’s where we come in.
I-Trek! was the first end to end Logistics Cloud visibility solution to hit the market. It remains the most comprehensive collaboration and performance management tool available today.
I-Trek! enables you to:
- Establish and monitor key performance indicators specific to your business
- Escalate issues to the appropriate parties before they become problems
- Free your human resources to think, plan and respond, rather than manually monitor
- Prioritize opportunities
- Hold all value chain stakeholders accountable – both external and internal
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Pay-Trek! brings freight audit and payment to the Logistics Cloud Platform, known as the Freightgate Universe. Part of performance management is timely and accurate billing by providers and Pay-Trek! displays up to the minute information on carrier billing performance.
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Tariff-Trek! dynamically provides optimized mode, carrier and route options for shipment execution. But shipping points, whether internal or 3rd party, can sometimes stray from the optimal selection, adding cost to your bottom line. Even if these decisions are for legitimate reasons, wouldn’t you like to be aware of how often they happen, why and what they cost? With Tariff-Trek! you can.
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Value Chain Collaboration
Time – Cost – Quality: The never ending conundrum
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
An order comes in, you produce the item in 4 locations on 3 continents and have 2 delivery channel options. What should you do? Where should your produce it? How to get it there? Now imagine 10,000 orders for 1,000 different skus and, well, you get the picture.
And so does Freightgate®. Which is why we built the Supply Chain Planning tools you need into the Freightgate Universe platform – tools that enable you to source and deliver more efficiently and economically. For instance, you can:
· Optimize sourcing decisions
· Reduce cost of goods sold
· Route based on lead time or cost constraints
· Track and analyze yield
WISA provides what-if-scenario-analysis in order to satisfy multiple competing constraints such that you can delight your customer while minimizing your cost. It replaces hopeful guesswork with reliable planning
Learn more about WISA
Tariff-Trek! provides the vital transportation and logistics options, along with their attendant costs, to the optimization. Due to silo responsibilities and incentives in many enterprises, these are often overlooked when making sourcing decisions – with potentially detrimental results.
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Transportation and Logistics Management
Perfect execution – nothing less will do in today’s market
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.
- William A. Foster
How to achieve that perfect delivery – not some or most of the time, but every time? Just as importantly, can you fully account for and properly allocate all of the associated costs based on the Incoterms?
Freightgate® answers these and many other important questions with the TMS capabilities built into the Freightgate Universe platform. With this fully closed loop solution you can for example:
· Consolidate orders
· Build loads
· Optimize routes
· Maintain end to end visibility
· Collaborate with other stakeholders
· Audit and pay the bill when it arrives
Tariff-Trek! provides the vital transportation and logistics options, along with their attendant costs, to the optimization. This truly dynamic tool puts expert decision support power at the operations desk level.
Learn more about Tariff-Trek!
I-Trek! was the first end to end Logistics Cloud visibility solution to hit the market. It remains the most comprehensive collaboration and performance management tool available today.
I-Trek! enables you to:
- Establish and monitor key performance indicators specific to your business
- Escalate issues to the appropriate parties before they become problems
- Free your human resources to think, plan and respond, rather than manually monitor
- Prioritize opportunities
- Hold all value chain stakeholders accountable – both external and internal
Learn more about I-Trek!
Pay-Trek! brings freight audit and payment to the Freightgate Universe platform, closing the loop in the management lifecycle.
Learn more about Pay-Trek!
Global Sourcing Management
Deciding where to source is just the beginning
The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.
- Marshall McLuhan, "Gutenberg Galaxy", 1962
“Global sourcing is unavoidable in today's flat world, but it's a highly complex undertaking. Strategic sourcing demands that companies align what the customer wants, what's best for the business, and what's needed to get the supply. And they need to do this while dealing with the inherent intricacy of navigating global suppliers, inventory, cultural differences, currency, time zones, connectivity, language, and supply chain requirements. It can't be done without help.”
Source: Supply Chain Management Review
We at Freightgate® could not agree more, so the help you need is built into the Freightgate Universe platform. From what if scenario analysis, to PO management, to global RFQ generation, along with collaborative monitor and control functionality, we take the mystery and complexity out of global sourcing.
WISA provides what-if-scenario-analysis in order to satisfy multiple competing constraints such that you can delight your customer while minimizing your cost. It replaces hopeful guesswork with reliable planning
Learn more about WISA
PO-Trek! was the first end to end Logistics Cloud PO visibility solution to hit the market. It remains the most comprehensive collaboration and performance management tool available today.
PO-Trek! enables you to:
- Maximize end to end PO visibility
- Manage – by exception – overseas suppliers
- Collaborate across all stakeholders
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GTM-Trek! automates and streamlines the procurement of global transportation services to most efficiently and effectively align with your global sourcing strategy. Often overlooked in the past, today’s ever rising fuel costs make this a critical component of the analysis.
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Supply Chain Planning
Time – Cost – Quality: The never ending conundrum
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
An order comes in, you produce the item in 4 locations on 3 continents and have 2 delivery channel options. What should you do? Where should your produce it? How to get it there? Now imagine 10,000 orders for 1,000 different skus and, well, you get the picture.
And so does Freightgate®. Which is why we built the Supply Chain Planning tools you need into the Freightgate Universe platform – tools that enable you to source and deliver more efficiently and economically. For instance, you can:
· Optimize sourcing decisions
· Reduce cost of goods sold
· Route based on lead time or cost constraints
· Track and analyze yield
WISA provides what-if-scenario-analysis in order to satisfy multiple competing constraints such that you can delight your customer while minimizing your cost. It replaces hopeful guesswork with reliable planning
Learn more about WISA
Tariff-Trek! provides the vital transportation and logistics options, along with their attendant costs, to the optimization. Due to silo responsibilities and incentives in many enterprises, these are often overlooked when making sourcing decisions – with potentially detrimental results.
Learn more about Tariff-Trek!
Pre-built S&OP Connectivity
In order to make it easier we have pre-built Web-Services connections to some S&OP solutions. Research has shown that connecting S&OP with inventory intransit will add $$$ directly to your bottom line
