Blueprint / 05

Find the delay before the customer does.

Freight, third party logistics and distribution operators coordinating across carriers, sites and customer portals.

Where it breaks

Status lives with the carrier, orders live in the ERP, and the customer finds out about a delay by asking. Exceptions are worked from an inbox, so the same delay gets handled three times.

What we build

Carrier, order and site data land in one control tower. Exceptions are detected, triaged and assigned automatically, and the customer update goes out from the system while the delay is still recoverable.

The console, running.

Change the range and it responds. Demonstration build. Synthetic data, modelled on real operations, not a client system.

Operations control tower

Shipments moved

27,880▲ +7.2%

On time delivery

95.1%▲ +1.6pt

Exceptions open

63▼ -22

Avg dwell time

4.2h▼ -0.7h

Shipments by status

On timeException
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun

The upper band is shipments that missed their window. Detected early, most of them are still recoverable.

Exception queue

ShipmentLaneCarrierDelayStatus
SHP-774120Rotterdam to LyonVantage Freight6hRecoverable
SHP-774088Chicago to DenverCaldera Road2dCustomer notified
SHP-774201Shenzhen to HamburgMeridian Ocean4dEscalated
SHP-774166Leeds to GlasgowNorthlane Haulage3hRecoverable
SHP-774043Dallas to PhoenixCaldera Road18hCustomer notified

Demonstration build. Synthetic data, modelled on real operations, not a client system.

What gets automated

Six workflows, engineered once.

01

Operations automation

Booking, tendering and status polling run without a person watching a portal.

02

Order and shipment workflows

One thread from order to proof of delivery, across every carrier.

03

Data aggregation

Carrier, ERP, warehouse and telematics feeds normalised to one shipment record.

04

Reporting

On time performance by lane, carrier and customer, on a definition that holds up in a QBR.

05

Customer communication

Proactive updates sent on exception, with the evidence attached.

06

AI operations agents

Triage the exception queue and propose the recovery, with cost of each option.

What it connects to

Your stack stays. We build the seam.

ERP or TMSOrders and shipments as the system of record.
Carrier APIs and EDIStatus polled and normalised, not read off a portal.
Warehouse managementDock, dwell and putaway joined to the shipment.
TelematicsPosition and ETA, so a delay is predicted rather than reported.
Customer portalThe same status the customer sees, from the same record.
Ships with the build

The Control Tower Agent

Triages every exception, proposes the recovery with the cost of each option, and drafts the customer update. Sending stays a human decision.

Other blueprints

Built the same way, for a different operation.

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