Transportation and Logistics

Is everything running as planned? Are you aware of issues as they arise? Are you in control when plans change? Are you doing everything you can to ensure schedule integrity and avoid disruptions? And how do you make sure your customers are kept aware of changes? With competition and fuel prices increasing, margin pressures have increased as well. Dealing with even one unscheduled disruption can cause a chain of events that eats the day’s profits.

At a time, when fuel prices have reached 30% of operating expenses for an average airline, there is no financial buffer room for an error in the schedule. At a time when personnel costs are a key factor in almost any industry, there is no room for crews to sit on stand-by or for people to wait while a vehicle or train goes through unscheduled maintenance. With customer satisfaction a key differentiator, proactive communication is a necessity, whether that means letting customers know where orders and packages are in the process or that their bag did not make their flight and how you will rectify the situation.

"Building interfaces used to eat up about 40 percent of the developers' time. I feel that using TIBCO software in this project has reduced that time by as much as 50 percent. Now our department can be more productive."

- Con-way

In transportation and logistics, process optimization is one of the most important factors contributing to success and competitive differentiation. TIBCO has helped industry leaders including FedEx, AirFrance/KLM, Delta Air Lines, Lufthansa Cargo, SAS, and Southwest Airlines achieve the value of real-time visibility, real-time insight, and real-time action.