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FourKites helps to make sense of scheduling

[ June 5, 2024   //   ]

Supply chain visibility provider FourKites is to be a Collaborator in the Scheduling Standards Consortium (SSC) the first platform of its kind to participate. FourKites joins organisations involved with the SSC — including Arrive Logistics, BlueYonder, Coyote Logistics, DHL, e2open, Echo, J.B. Hunt Transport, Lineage, Mastery, One Network Enterprises, Oracle, Ryder, TI NTG, Uber Freight, Werner and Worldwide Express — which aims to foster greater efficiency within the supply chain technology landscape.

Freight scheduling has been a pervasive problem for the supply chain, with the need to juggle dozens of methods of scheduling freight, each with their own interface and API.

In response to this challenge, JB Hunt and Uber Freight joined forces in 2022 to establish the SSC, to create the first universal appointment scheduling standard in the form of an API. Many other organisations are now involved and the SSC’s goal is to simplify the integration of fragmented systems between shippers, carriers and intermediaries to create a more efficient scheduling process. The SSC in October 2023, which eliminates the need for multiple interfaces and allows carriers to interact through a single interface.

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