BlueBox Enhances Intelligent Air Freight Tracking Solutions

BlueBox Systems, one of the leading developers of intelligent air freight tracking solutions, now offers its customers even more accurate access to advance and real-time information about the estimated time of arrival (ETA) for all shipments. This feature is important for both shippers and carriers, as it allows them to better understand their transport and logistics processes and plan accordingly. Those who can quickly and accurately capture their arrival times reduce the consequences of irregularities such as delays and lower transportation costs.

The last few years have clearly highlighted the vulnerability of supply chains: labor shortages, material shortages, the Covid-19 pandemic, and ongoing political tensions and conflicts have disrupted the flow of goods and services. This has created uncertainty for shippers and carriers. In the past, the industry worked with loose ETA timeframes and ranges, but that is no longer sufficient. Customers want and demand precise insights: Where is my shipment right now? When will it arrive?

Users of BlueBox Systems include shippers, transport companies, and logistics service providers. Knowledge of accurate arrival times enables them to support customers quickly, as the impacts on processes or production can be assessed. With the latest feature from BlueBox Systems, ETAs are more accurate than ever before, opening up new opportunities to make the entire supply chain network more efficient and reduce costs.

“We continuously track thousands of shipments every day. From this, we have built a database from which we can derive the estimated arrival time of new shipments. This intelligent feature provides shippers and carriers with the best possible prediction based on the available information,” explains Martin Bernemann, Chief Technical Officer at BlueBox Systems.

With precise ETA predictions, logistics professionals can accurately estimate where the shipment is and when it will arrive at its destination. This allows for proactive adjustments to downstream activities in the supply chain, such as rescheduling loading dates. This can help avoid delay fees or optimize personnel deployment. Resources spent on manual processes can also be improved. Those who spend hours manually tracking shipments are wasting time.

“Many companies struggle with delays, costly disruptions, and dissatisfied end customers because they have only limited insights into their air freight shipments. Real-time tracking and accurate ETA predictions can therefore provide a real competitive advantage. We use BlueBox Systems to elevate our 4PL services for our customers to a new level. By using this software, we can optimize logistics processes and provide our customers with better transparency and control over their air freight shipments,” says Franziska Damm, Director at 4flow.

Supply Chain Transparency Plays an Important Role

“If you don’t know exactly where the expected deliveries are and if you don’t meet customer expectations regarding deliveries, all other positive services can become meaningless. For this reason, supply chain transparency plays an important role. We want to solve one of the biggest challenges in the supply chain with BlueBox Systems – inaccurate ETAs from carriers,” says Martin Bernemann.

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