Given the extended supply chains within the global marketplace, companies need transportation strategies designed to achieve the service levels that customers demand while reducing costs. Companies today face numerous transportation challenges, including rising fuel costs, new regulatory mandates, and global operations with higher levels of lead time variability. All of these factors make transportation costs a larger percentage of the cost of goods sold.
Customers have increasing demands for transportation performance, higher on-time delivery performance, and reduced damage-in-transit. They expect transportation providers to be flexible and quickly adapt to order changes. Add to all of this an increased need for global freight visibility and control, and companies are scrambling to find the right solution to quickly address these challenges.
Transportation and Logistics Management accomplishes this by supporting processes including carrier contract negotiations, transportation network modeling, shipment order handling, freight planning, order execution and monitoring, and freight financial settlement. The solution suite encompasses transportation procurement, planning, execution, and monitoring.
i2 solutions for transportation and logistics 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.
"Our time-to-value was very rapid. We had projected an 18-month ROI, but we recovered our investment in less than 11 months."
—George McAfee Supply Chain Management Program Manager
Cooper Tire & Rubber Company
Transportation Software as a Service
FreightMatrix enables customers to rapidly deploy the world-class i2 Transportation Management solutions while lowering the total cost of ownership and accelerating the time-to-value compared with traditional software deployment methodologies. FreightMatrix also helps customers to establish best-practice transportation management while eliminating the requirement to invest heavily in ongoing infrastructure management and maintenance. This allows organizations to focus their organization's valuable IT resources on their core business activities.
Planning and Management
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.
Modeling and Analysis
i2 Transportation Modeler is part of an end-to-end solution for the planning, execution, and management of the entire transportation life cycle. This solution is designed to enable an organization to better utilize and manage an entire transportation network, as well as reduce costs while improving transport performance.
Bid Collaboration
i2 Transportation Bid Collaboration provides a suite of tools for the periodic negotiation of transportation rates. It combines an optimization engine, a web-based workflow, and a bidding tool into a single solution for negotiating and awarding transportation contracts.
Transportation Management at LG Electronics: Act Locally. Manage Globally.
i2 enables one of the world’s largest consumer electronics manufacturers to rapidly implement best-practice transportation management solutions and synchronize intra-enterprise workflows across distributed operations, resulting in an 8 percent reduction in transportation and distribution expense.
