FourKites – Extending visibility beyond transportation into yards, warehouses, stores and beyond
The Silicon Review
FourKites is the world's leading supply chain intelligence platform, delivering real-time visibility and execution for 1200+ companies and third-party logistics firms across 200 countries. Using a patented artificial intelligence to calculate shipment arrival times, FourKites enables customers to lower operating costs, improve on-time performance, and strengthen end-customer relationships. Tracking over three million shipments each day, FourKites covers all modes, nodes and signals to extend visibility beyond transportation into yards, warehouses, stores and more. The platform provides a single view of your entire supply chain and is optimized for mobile, equipped with market-leading end-to-end security.
Dynamic Yard®: Yard Management Software Solutions
It is a dock and yard management system with true end-to-end visibility and real-time tracking of in-transit and in-yard freight – all in one comprehensive solution. The company helps you transform your business and make your yard an agile, interconnected part of your overall supply chain. With FourKites, you get the most advanced yard management system (YMS) available. Unlike traditional yard management services that can only show you what’s in your yard, FourKites leverages real-time visibility of in-transit and in-yard freight to give you unmatched flexibility and insights. With multiple work streams converging at once in your yard, keep tasks aligned and enriched with real-time data to ensure the best outcome for all involved.
Dynamic Yard seamlessly combines your different operating groups into a single pane of glass to give them the benefits of real-time visibility to the yard. You need inventory fast and your carrier network wants their equipment back – Dynamic Yard empowers teams to efficiently accomplish both. With a seamless automated workstream dictated by the platform, teams are always coordinated across activities around the yard and across your supply chain. As cost gets scrutinized across your operations, be certain your facilities aren’t adding extra weight to your budget. Harness FourKites technology to keep pulse of your yard, identifying opportunities to drive efficiencies and reduce costs through full visibility to underlying operations. lectric tractors, autonomous vehicles and increased use of IoT technology require a robust localized system to maximize and unify your investments. Dynamic Yard futureproofs your operations so you can quickly take advantage of the next era of technology.
Dynamic Ocean®: Ocean Freight Tracking and Shipment Visibility
Transform your ocean shipment tracking with the most advanced real-time ocean freight visibility solution on the market. Go beyond just ocean shipment visibility and transform your entire international shipping operation. FourKites is the only solution that gives you end-to-end precision ocean freight tracking, the most accurate predictive ETAs, and can easily integrate with your existing TMS. Modernize your international ocean shipping with end-to-end sea freight visibility with global multimodal coverage; an expansive network of carriers and freight forwarders; and actionable intelligence in a single, streamlined platform. With FourKites, pair the best-in-class technology with high quality ocean data for more actionable decision-making during a time of ocean chaos. Not everyone in the supply chain is the same, so FourKites uses APIs, EDI and RPA technologies to connect your organization with your supply chain partners quickly and easily, allowing you to start seeing value within days. FourKites is your one-stop solution for managing your ocean freight. They are the only solution on the market to go beyond traditional track and trace visibility with predictive ETAs, multimodal leg connectivity and yard visibility in a single pane of glass. Get critical shipment information for every leg of your multi-modal journey with complete end-to-end visibility. FourKites combines real-time visibility with the predictive Dynamic ETA®, giving shippers the most accurate tracking connecting every mode from port-to-door in your container’s journey.
Network Visibility: See Everywhere, Optimize Everything
Your competitive advantage lies in your ability to see into every corner of your supply chain — both for pre-paid and collect inbound freight. With FourKites, you connect to the largest global network of vendors, shippers, retailers, carriers and 3PLs on the planet. Over 1,200+ of the world’s most recognized brands are tracking over three Million Shipments every day, which gives you unprecedented opportunities to bring visibility to your inbound freight and create real collaboration with your suppliers. Drastically reduce inbound customer service calls and manual processes. Better plan labor and dock usage with improved collaboration between suppliers and fulfillment teams. Optimize planning and reduce inventory with critical real-time supplier data. Reduce your safety stock and improve your overall forecast accuracy. Improve vendor relations and performance by collaborating in real time with your suppliers and fulfillment teams.
About | Matt Elenjickal
Matt Elenjickal is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of FourKites. He founded FourKites in 2014 after recognizing pain points in the logistics industry and designing elegant and effective systems to address them.
Prior to founding FourKites, Matt spent seven years in the enterprise software space working for market leaders such as Oracle Corp and i2 Technologies/JDA Software Group. Matt has led high-impact teams that implemented logistics strategies and systems at P&G, Nestle, Kraft, Anheuser-Busch Inbev, Tyco, Argos and Nokia across North America, Western Europe and Latin America. Matt is passionate about logistics and supply chain management and has a keen sense for how technology can disrupt traditional silo-based planning and execution.
Matt holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from College of Engineering, Guindy, an MS in Industrial Engineering and Management Science from Northwestern University, and an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.