Oco SaaS BI Solution for Transportation

The Opportunity:  Accurate and real-time performance insights about your transportation operations allow you to effectively manage and streamline this important part of your supply chain. With high fuel costs and increased competition, you need full visibility into not only your own operations and costs, but also to your carriers’ performance and your customer’s satisfaction levels. 

The Challenge:  Most companies lack insightful transportation information that allows them to find improvement opportunities across carriers, customers, ship-from locations, lanes, planners and other dimensions. Companies often fail to see where line haul costs, specific accessorial costs, capacity utilization, damages or other key cost and service metrics are out of line by any of the above dimensions. As a result, many managers make decisions with reports that are incomplete, provide a one-dimensional view, and lack insight into root-causes.

The Oco Solution for Transportation allows you to:

• Analyze asset utilization, load balance, and trailer capacity utilization with the ability to drill down to the detailed shipment-specific information
• Perform root cause analysis of variances to plan within minutes, without the usual delay and complicated, manual spreadsheet manipulation
• Optimize trailer utilization by proactively preempting less than full truckload or carload
• Examine your line haul costs and accessorial charges by lane, carrier, or ordering customer to identify patterns of waste or poor practices
• Assure compliance with negotiated rates and carriers and determine root cause for variances
• View actual delivery time and be able to compare with customer request dates, as well as appointment schedules to have a complete view of customer service