Data Analysis and Monitoring Helped Enterprise Saved Tens of Millions on Transportation

A world leading ICT company once struggled with the slowness and waste of its logistics system.

Old transportation mode:

In the old mode of transportation, the company collected data by using phone calls to communicate with the drivers. With this mode, each load and unload activities might take four to six hours. If the cargo were lost, relocating the cargo would take few hours, and restocking would take months. Each step in transportation created a situation where people wait for the cargo, this wasted their equipment and storage resources.

Changes:

The company used GIS, electronic locks, door magnets, etc. to obtain real-time data. With the data, they used algorithms and BI tools to analysis the entire process of transportation.

New transportation mode:

In the new mode of transportation, the company speeded up each step of their load and unload activities by about 50% to 6000%. When abnormal data was captured, the response time lowered from hours to minutes. Each year the company saves over tens of millions of dollars on transportation.

One Interesting Case:

After the company changed their mode of transportation, they found that one truck was behaving strange, and the driver did not response to the phone call. Therefore, the company called the police. The police went and checked the status of the truck, and the fact was that the driver was kidnaped by some criminals. In the end, the driver was saved by the police, and the company arranged restocking within one day.

Without the informatization of transportation, the company could not find out the abnormal of the truck in that brief period and might take months to make a restocking arrangement.