Optimizing an organization's logistics is never an easy task. Labor shortages, rising costs, and rampant regulations are just three of the many challenges that prevent businesses from achieving the efficiency and accuracy needed to maintain their already tight margins and meet the increasingly high expectations of their customers. But there is a solution that can help you meet these challenges: automation. Here's how creating custom business applications can advance your organization, improve operations, and reduce costs.
Automate your logistics
At all stages of the logistics journey, automation has a positive impact. From order processing to product shipping, from stock movements to storage, and from inventory management to distribution, it's a cost-effective way to improve the efficiency and consistency of your operations.
In addition, you develop a series of strategic advantages for your customers:
- Cost reduction Of transport
- Eliminating bottlenecks to reduce delays
- Fewer mistakes by eliminating the human factor
- Better visibility of freight activity, which helps you allocate resources.
- Greater compliance
- Centralized data to support audits
- Freeing colleagues so they can focus on other business growth initiatives
Hardware automation may consist in using robotic arms, automatic vehicles or lifting modules to improve inventory management. But you can also use robot-software to manage transactions, inventory, and customer service. This one works with process Low-code to transform the end-to-end process by orchestrating people, systems, robots, and data.
What applications for your business?
While automation can be the key to reducing costs and improving operational efficiency, you can go even further with business applications. In fact, these custom applications are designed according to your goals and needs. And this, in order to allow you to obtain the best possible results.
In this way, creating business applications will help you: fill logistics gaps that cannot be resolved by your existing systems. You will not only automate isolated tasks, you will create pSeamless end-to-end processes while giving your staff modern and intuitive interfaces.
Business applications are:
- Rapides to build, deploy, and update
- Highly secure and always available
- Cloud Natives, mobile and accessible
- Intuitive and personalized
By optimizing the development of your business applications, you will therefore be in a position to exceed your competitors.
A few examples of success stories...
If you're still not convinced of the value of automation for your logistics processes, take a look at these results.
Unilever automated processes to help ship products worldwide, ensuring that all shipping documents were present and correct for 1900 shipments in the first 7 months. During the process, ERP systems were updated in all regions.
Cofco International Transports annually million tons of cereals worldwide. Their logistics are all the more complex as they have to keep up to date with the evolution of standards and laws. They decided to automate logistical tasks in order to provide better visibility of end-to-end processes on a unified platform. It also helps them manage their compliance issues through complete traceability through a centralized data source.
Finally, CBC Perform more than 200 million transactions every year. By automating its processes globally through tailor-made applications, it was able to speed up price approval by 12 times. They deployed 17 processes in less than three years while maintaining 100% of their service level agreements.
Customized applications designed for your automation
To stay competitive, you need to streamline your logistics processes as much as possible. Customized business applications are therefore the ideal solution to develop your business while optimizing costs and efficiency.
About StoryShaper:
StoryShaper is an innovative start-up that supports its customers in defining their digital strategy and the development of automation solutions tailor-made.
Sources: StoryShaper, Bizagi
