Logistics

Track late inbound shipments

Problem

For companies with overseas manufacturing, tracking late inbound shipments is crucial to avoiding stockouts. However, every freight forwarder provides shipment data differently. Teams spend multiple hours everyday consolidating and cleaning the data in spreadsheets which can be better used to create contingency plans and holding carriers accountable.

Solution

With Narrative, create a workflow to consolidate and standardize freight forwarder data across APIs, spreadsheets and email. Get daily alerts about late shipments and sync everything back to your ERP.

Pull freight forwarder data from APIs, spreadsheets and email.
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Keep only necessary columns like Shipment ID, ETA, Units etc.
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Consolidate data across all freight forwarders.
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Validate that no data is missing or is incorrect.
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Automatically send email to ask for updates
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Sync back data with your ERP daily to keep it up-to-date
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Send data to dashboard for detailed analytics
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Track the late shipments MoM by threshold.
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Track freight forwarder performance MoM.
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Get a list of all your late shipments that need immediate attention.
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FAQs

What is Narrative?

Narrative is an AI powered automation tool for operations teams.

- Are you manually pulling together data from different spreadsheets, documents or emails?
- Do you spend hours combining, cleaning and transforming that data before it's ready to generate insights?
- Is this process something you find yourself repeating every day or every week?

If yes, then Narrative can help you create automated processes and save time.

My processes are not documented. Can you help?

Absolutely! In fact, most companies don't have well documented processes. Therefore, we setup regular meetings with all our customers to learn about their processes, document them and work together to build the workflows in Narrative.

How will you keep my data secure?

At Narrative, we take data security very seriously. Your data is kept secure through advanced encryption, secure data storage in AWS and regular security audits. We don't use your data to train our AI models and any business information you share with us is treated with full confidentiality.

How much does Narrative cost?

We charge a monthly fees for the software. However, the pricing depends on the complexity of the workflows. Please reach out to discuss your processes and we will share a custom quote with you.

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