Logistics | Equipment Management
Improve Equipment Tracking, Manage Imbalances, and Reduce Charges with Container Management
Insight and visibility to track and manage equipment effectively
Efficiency and cost savings accompany visibility, but equipment is often as difficult to track as the goods contained inside. With e2open Equipment Management, you can now consolidate status updates and standardize the data from multiple sources. With this insight, logistics teams can easily manage equipment movements—whether for day-to-day operations or strategic decisions. The overall results are lower demurrage, detention, and lost container charges.
Lost revenue due to inefficient equipment management
Missing, poorly positioned, or idle equipment weighs heavily on margins
Maintaining control of equipment is costly and difficult for carriers. Besides the cost of the equipment itself, transporting a container—full or empty—costs money. After import containers are unloaded, they need to be quickly re-used for exports to eliminate empty runs. When this is not possible, truckers must find and retrieve empty containers. With thousands of containers moving all over the world, carriers can quickly lose track. The result is not only lost revenue opportunities but also asset book write-downs if phone calls and emails fail to help locate the containers.
Save with equipment transport planning
Control equipment moves, reduce handling costs, and decrease or eliminate empty runs and wait times. Equipment Management includes capabilities for shippers, trucking companies, and ocean carriers to meet all container transport needs.
Increase profits
Fewer empty miles lead to increased profits. Artificial intelligence (AI) and real-time data help you lower costs by improving equipment utilization.
Optimize street turns
Re-using discharged import containers for export bookings helps you increase efficiency and optimize street turns.
Automate drop-off and pick-up changes
Requests for drop-off and pick-up changes can be made electronically or automated for recurring moves, reducing errors and manual steps.
Collaborate for effective transport
Shippers get access to nearby equipment, trucking companies haul full—not empty—containers, and ocean carriers lease containers and transport goods.
Lower your carbon footprint
Fewer unnecessary container moves reduces your carbon footprint and contributes to improved sustainability.
Minimize fines and penalties
By reducing driver and shipper delays, you minimize the risk of incurring fines and penalties from ocean lines and port terminal operators.
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Manage container movements efficiently