Qlik for logistics supports the process of getting products delivered from one place to another—on time, efficiently, and at the lowest cost possible. 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 Qlik for Logistics, leading transport and logistics businesses can:

• Improve your profitability with in-depth analysis of service and network portfolio across customers, suppliers and every step in the logistics chain
• Track your supplier performance against service level agreements to identify opportunities, negotiate intelligently, and tier contracts based on results
• Analyse your loads, routes, carriers, tendering, bookings, customs filings, freight audit and payment on a by-order basis to reduce cost variables
• Improve your 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 Qlik 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.

Transparency required—across borders and systems

You need to manage your intricate chain of suppliers and customers—with their respective systems—and associated 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. Qlik streamlines reporting of Business Intelligence (BI) to ensure accuracy and mitigate risk.