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Specialty chemical company Clariant is using the FourKites platform for visibility for its ocean shipments. The company says that in six weeks after implementation it achieved its highest-ever tracking percentage for international shipments. The solution provides critical alerts and updates, along with dynamic predictive estimated times of arrival.
Head of global logistics solutions services for the Swiss-based manfaucturer, Yannick Jehli said: “The highly accurate ETAs enable us to automatically give all ...
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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, ...
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Supply chain provider FourKites has promoted Priya Rajagopalan to president of product, technology and operations. She will lead FourKites’ product, engineering and customer functions, having joined the company seven years ago as chief product officer.
Meanwhile, Ron Richardson returns to FourKites as chief revenue officer, where he will lead Sales, partners ...
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Italian pasta giant Barilla says it has achieved 80% visibility into the entire lifecycle of its ocean and road shipments, thanks to the FourKites platform. It allows the family-owned firm – whose brands also include Pasta Evangelists, Pavesi, Vesta, and Back to Nature - to see where its goods are ...
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Supply chain visibility provider FourKites has published a Premier Carrier List (PCL), recognising brokers, carriers and 3PLs who are achieving the highest operational excellence. Carriers featured deliver high-quality and consistent shipment data, facilitating faster turnaround times and optimised performance for shippers and carriers alike. FourKites says that new carriers who ...
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Visibility provider FourKites has launched a training platform for supply chain practitioners. It offers a Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP)-accredited course, along with ‘gamified learning’ aiming to make the experience fun and engaging with points and badges earned throughout the training modules. There are also regular updates to ...
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Visibility specialist FourKites has made three additions to its senior leadership team. Technology industry veteran Sean Fallon returns as chief strategy officer; chief product officer Priya Rajagopalan takes on an expanded role that closely aligns customer operations and product development teams; Mike DeAngelis (based in Denmark) joins as head of ...
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Labour unions are warning of a possible East Coast port strike next year but the impact could be limited, says visibility firm FourKites.
It says that will the region has some of the country's largest metropolitan areas and ports, 2024 is expected to be a relatively slow market and the chaos ...
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Supply chain visibility provider FourKites is offering new capabilities within its AI-enabled Slot Manager solution.They include automated rescheduling whereby FourKites’ AI-powered Dynamic ETAs Slot Manager automatically rearranges early or late slots as potential exceptions are encountered.For hauliers, automated rescheduling eliminates the need to continuously and manually monitor freight for exceptions, ...
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FourKites said that medical firm Teva has reduced its incident rate to just 0.005% thanks to its carrier visibility solution, NIC-Place. Teva has a portfolio of over 3,500 products and moves half a million pallets throughout Europe, delivering and collecting from wholesalers, pharmacies, hospitals and suppliers. As well as providing ...
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