Transportation & Logistics Best Practices

Drive Transportation & Logistics Best Practices with Progress RPM

In today’s "buy anywhere, sell everywhere" economy, the challenges and pressures faced by transport operators and logistics companies are greater than ever. The task of getting the right goods to the right place―at the right time, at the right cost, in the right condition―is complicated by a wide range of variables including congestion along routes and at hubs, inclement weather, employee performance, local regulations, and security issues, to name just a few. To achieve effectiveness and efficiency across this complex system, operators are increasingly striving to identify and apply transportation & logistics best practices. Some high-level transportation & logistics best practices have a technological dimension, such as:

• Attain global visibility across the system and proactively identify and manage exceptions.
  
  
• Apply intelligent routing and consolidation to optimize the flow of goods.
  
  
• Implement a formal continuous process improvement program that’s responsive to ongoing changes across the transportation & logistics network.
  
  

Progress Software’s Progress® Responsive Process Management (RPM) suite is the perfect platform to drive these high-level transportation & logistics best practices, as well as to implement more granular transportation & logistics best practices across your operations.

Progress RPM Delivers Real-Time Visibility and Control

Progress RPM is the first enterprise solution to seamlessly merge open data integration, business transaction management, complex-event processing (CEP), and business process management (BPM) capabilities into one unified platform. The platform integrates and extends Progress technologies that some of the world’s leading transportation and distribution companies rely on to track and optimize the flow of inventory across land, sea, and air. The Progress RPM suite will enable you to:

• Gain real-time visibility and track-and-trace capabilities across your entire operation, even for the most complex and globalized multi-channel distribution networks.
  
  
• Automate dynamic route optimization and load consolidation processes to ensure timely delivery and full loads.
  
  
• Monitor streaming-event data incoming from warehouse, transportation, and vehicle management systems, as well as from sensors, GIS/GPS devices, and RFID systems. Automatically analyze and compare these fast-moving event streams to defined rules and scenarios to identify exception cases that require either automated process adjustments or computer-assisted operator intervention based on transportation & logistics best practices.
  
  
• Leverage the RPM suite’s robust process modeling and automation environment to continually update and improve your policies based on accumulated knowledge and evolving conditions.
  
  

Achieve Operational Responsiveness

In addition to driving transportation and logistics best practices, the Progress RPM suite enables operational responsiveness across a wide range of business arenas, including:

• Client on-boarding optimization for financial services firms.
  
  
• Revenue management for airlines, hotels, telecommunications, and other industries with transient inventory.
  
  
• Irregular operations management for airlines.
  
  

Learn more about how Progress RPM enables operational responsiveness and serves as a state-of-the-art business navigation system.