Automotive

Cummins Accelerates Shipment Processing, Gains Real-Time Visibility with Logistyx Multi-Carrier Shipping Software

The Challenge

For global shippers like Cummins, managing huge numbers of global and local carriers can be extremely challenging and time consuming. Cummins had difficulty managing carrier information and shipment specifications. Producing shipping labels and transmitting shipping information according to each carrier’s specifications was a complex and time-consuming process. Cummins needed to take control of their shipping, streamline operations and improve warehouse efficiency.

The Solution

Cummins chose Logistyx Technologies’ multi-carrier shipping software to streamline operations. Logistyx software provides real-time production of shipping labels and carrier documents, performs shipment consolidation and freight calculations and produces event tracking data, all of which has helped Cummins.

The Results

• Process times have been reduced and labeling errors
  rarely occur since introducing real-time label printing.
• Tracking events are automatically downloaded from
  carrier servers. The Cummins team now have full
  visibility on the latest status of every shipment, which
  allows them to share status information with their
  customers and improve the service they provide to
  them.
• Cummins has gained the ability to monitor freight costs and
  check the accuracy of carrier freight invoices.
• Actual freight costs are now added to the sales invoice as a result
  of Logistyx’s real-time freight cost calculations, making invoicing
  a much more efficient process.

Brake Parts streamlines shipping workflows and achieves 0% error rate for order fulfillment.

Brake Parts Inc. manufactures braking systems for the automotive industry and markets its products through a network of auto parts distributors and retailers, and online retailers in the United States and Canada. In addition to selling and shipping thousands of orders a day to multiple channels, Brake Parts also operates a dedicated fulfillment operation exclusively for a large U.S. automaker.

Business Challenge

To cost-effectively meet its diverse customers’ service requirements, the company needed a single shipping software system to handle small parcel, regional and other carriers. Additionally, Brake Parts needed to ensure that it was maintaining high levels of accuracy on every order packed, right down to the line item detail on the order.

Solution

Brake Parts chose Logistyx Technologies’ order packing software, shipping software and Zebra mobile computers to create a tightly integrated solution that meets their order fulfillment quality standards and carrier management goals.

Results

• Achieved 100% accuracy on all customer orders
• Met and exceeded large automotive company’s new metrics for line item level order accuracy
• Automated all carrier routing and shipment documentation
• Increased efficiency and eliminated manual labor with scan/verify/print solution

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