Software

There is not a single process in business today that is not reliant upon software, and logistics is no exception. Software has been helping logisticians do their jobs for decades and more recent advances in technology have only helped them simplify ever more complex tasks.

Big data has become in vogue over the last few years, but the practice of logistics has always been about dealing with overwhelming volumes of data. Logistics software has long helped to organize and analyse data in support of process automation, optimization, and better decision making.

Logistics operations have increasingly emerged at the core of the modern enterprise, providing critical links between customers, channels, manufacturers and suppliers and facilitating global trade. The accuracy and reliability of logistics information, accessible to executives, logistics managers and line-of-business personnel, has become essential to business success.

Logistics information runs the enterprise gamut as does the software that analyzes and exploits that information. Transportation management, inventory, shipment tracking, international trade compliance, shipment management, optimization, contract management, inventory and fulfillment management, multi-mode logistics planning and optimization, and contract pricing optimization are all handled by different species of logisitcs software.

If you think about company operations such as manufacturing, supply chain management and procurement at a high level, what ties them all together is logistics. And what makes logistics manageable is software.