Business-to-Business Logistics
In a business-to-business logistics environment, Fortigo allows you to manage both inbound and outbound inventory, and can help your company make intelligent decisions on strategic sourcing.
Inbound Logistics
Fortigo allows you to manage supply chain logistics beyond the four walls of your organization. Fortigo's optimization engine selects the best transportation method for your inbound inventory and manages shipments from the moment they are expected to ship until they are received at your dock. Fortigo's web native, standards-based architecture makes integrating with your supplier systems as well as your transportation partners seamless. In addition, you can leverage Fortigo's support for any number of user profiles to push functionality out to your suppliers such as preparing shipping manifests and package labels based on your specifications.
Strategic Sourcing
Fortigo enables you to choose strategic suppliers by factoring logistics costs into your decision making, such as:
- Minimize actual carrying costs for inventory by calculating when items should be received
- Report on the impact of late or missing materials delivery.
- Report on delivery dates vs. contract to manage supplier commitments.
Outbound Logistics
Fortigo streamlines outbound logistics by incorporating your customers' shipping requirements along with all business rules of your organization. It integrates with your transportation partners to provide you with a common, carrier neutral system for manifest generation, real-time in transit inventory visibility, and proactive inventory monitoring and management to your end customers as well as your vendors by providing logistics intelligence. Fortigo provides one central repository of enterprise logistics information that anyone in the extended organization can access, including sales, procurement, finance, vendors or customers. Fortigo is built on a web native platform which makes it available to all your facilities anywhere in the world, thus enforcing business strategy, promoting process standardization and easier adoption of best practices. Moreover, it can scale seamlessly to support your growing business needs since there is no client software to be installed. You only need your browser.
Fortigo's logistics optimization engine takes into account many different factors in order to determine what carrier and what service level to use for each and every shipment. Criteria considered include business rules, carrier contracts, customer/vendor service level agreements, multiple rate sheets, delivery zones and transit time. The decision on how to tender a particular shipment is also influenced by consolidation as well as co-ship opportunities in order to reduce cost.
Fortigo provides closed-loop auditing for all shipments. This includes monitoring the progress of a shipment from the moment it is expected to ship until it is delivered and proof of delivery is obtained. In-transit exceptions are automatically monitored and the appropriate party is notified. Carrier service guarantees and rate sheets are closely monitored for auditing on-time performance as well as accurate freight billing. You no longer have to rely on carrier generated performance reports. You can now access this information with the click of your mouse.