FourKites announces enhancements to its AI-enabled Slot Manager
FourKites says it has implemented several new capabilities within its AI-enabled Slot Manager to bring further automation to distribution centres, warehouses among other things.
FourKites says it has implemented several new capabilities within its AI-enabled Slot Manager to bring further automation to distribution centres, warehouses among other things.
The company claims its Slot Manager enhancements provide supply chain partners with a more “seamless slot management process that saves time, increases on-time performance, improves auditing accuracy, reduces detention fees and slashes dwell times”.
According to FourKites’ itself, the features added to Slot Manager include:
- Automated Rescheduling. Leveraging FourKites’ AI-powered Dynamic ETAs® Slot Manager will automatically reschedule early or late slots as potential exceptions are encountered. This relieves frontline workers from tedious administrative tasks and allows them to focus on managing their daily activities. For hauliers, automated rescheduling eliminates the need to continuously and manually monitor freight for exceptions. Leveraging FourKites AI-powered Dynamic ETAs® and haulier-provided ETAs, as needed, calendars are automatically updated and kept in sync, eliminating time-consuming calls and emails between shippers, haulier and drivers.
- Communication Hub. Now, shippers and hauliers can easily communicate within the Slot Manager tool itself for more efficient operations and faster auditing. Hauliers can invite drivers to manage and collaborate on each slot with a unique URL so that each party can add their own notes and updates, consolidating all communication in a single portal.
- Improved Haulier Access. Through deeper integration with each Haulier’s TMS, shippers can now provide hauliers access to detailed reporting, such as reschedule recommendations, haulier slot compliance, facility metrics and more. This enables a self-service environment for hauliers, streamlines communication and drives continuous improvement with shared metrics and shipper-haulier relationships.
Commenting on the added features, Priya Rajagopalan, FourKites Chief Products Officer, said:
“Slot Manager breaks down the silos between systems and teams to significantly reduce slot bottlenecks. Now, shippers, hauliers and drivers can all collaborate and communicate within one, integrated, AI-powered slot system that enables greater productivity, agility and efficiency — and, ultimately, better decision-making in real time when exceptions arise.”