Flexport in San Francisco offers a freight forwarding solution via its eponymous platform, designed to bring visibility, analytics, and collaboration to large shipping operations.
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SAP Transportation Management
Score 8.8 out of 10
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The SAP Transportation Management application integrates fleet and logistics management throughout the user's network, to help reduce transportation complexity. The solution offers on-premise and cloud deployment, transportation and demand planning, interactive freight tendering, and a collaboration portal.
Flexport changed the way we looked at importing. Prior to Flexport, importing was a bit of a black box, with low transparency which meant adding a buffer to shipment times to account for unforeseen delays. Historically we had inboxes full of documents with no roll-up view. Now we have a roll-up view, and visibility to underlying documents should we ever need them.
In situation such as optimum shipping point given the network complexity, it suggests the best lane to select for the load to transport and its mode, the scope of the less appropriate is visualization with better 3D load plan images to improve user experience to plan with load routes with efficacy
Planning and execution area for carriers is not covered fully. It has scenarious covered, but its mainly manual and not suited for high volumes and loads
Intermodal transportation management - absent or inefficient
Trailer swap functionality is like 10 steps process, which is highly manually consuming and is not efficient for company operating >5000 trucks and trailers
SAP TM delivers strong value in planning, cost control, and system integration. While complex and sometimes heavy to maintain, its long-term benefits and alignment with SAP’s digital logistics roadmap make renewal very likely.
Overall rating is 8 as it is easy to use and navigate, creates purchase requisites and order with less complexity, no complex and analytical training required which helps to onboard the person easily on this software, even if have problem you figure it out by your own by simply searching on net or SAP customer support
Support teams are fantastic. I've been lucky enough to meet teams from NY, LA and HK offices. They have prioritized building a culture of talented and energetic people who push projects and tasks forward. They don't sit back and wait for things to happen they're constantly pushing things forward to be on time with all information organized and ready.
Historically we worked with and agent who and did not have a software platform like Flexport. We made the decision to test volume, and they quickly earned the rest of our business. The on boarding process was easy, pricing was competitive and the product delivered in every way we were promised.
It allows to integrate an e2e flow from business process to finance and people management, which in logistic business are the resources for logistic execution. Analytics are obviously allows us to analyze the metrics and make data driven decisions.
Enables movement of code changes through the landscape seamlessly
We have a busy shop and it doesn't matter if a project with 1000+ changes or 100 changes, the system handles it very well. The business is happy that we can move all these changes at one go
One feature would be to identify if the changes are to some core objects in the system then take an automatic backup or at least give that option.
