Transport Planning, Execute, & Visibility Flow

Shipping goods is an involved process, usually requiring dedicated resource to help with finding the best price that meets SLA, booking, tracking, and manage.

ACME is a factory that produces little drones. To ship the drones to both BestBuy or the customer, a lengthy transport is involved.

ACME will first work with a Logistics Provider (they will pack, label, store, ship), who might work with with Freight Forwarder (consolidates and work with multiple carriers ), who will ultimate work with a Carrier (owns trucks, airplanes, or ships).

Planning in the transport flow means finding the lowest cost while meeting the shipping deadline.

Execute in the transport flow means submitting the shipping order, receiving an ASN, and have the drones be on its way to Best Buy or the customer.

Visibility in the transport flow is the tracking of the shipment. This is possible if the carrier provide live EDI feed.

Management in the in the transport flow means tracking SLA of carriers, receiving alerts if a shipment is late, communicating electronically to a network of carriers.