Global Visibility Platform (GVP)

Global Visibility Platform (GVP)

You have millions of dollars in equipment and freight constantly on the move. When they stop moving, you need to know about it. TransCore’s Global Visibility Platform (GVP) includes multi-modal command and control features that give you unprecedented visibility into your fleet and non-fleet equipment. Manage your shipments proactively from origin to destination, with a focus on exceptions. Knowing where your shipments are, and more importantly, when they will arrive at their destination, gives you the power to make better, faster business decisions, improving your bottom line and customer service. With GVP, you can:

  • Reduce distribution chain inventory
  • Improve asset utilization
  • Select optimal transportation modes
  • Minimize operational costs
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Shipment Visibility

Our track, trace, and intervention services help you:

  • Make better business decisions with accurate and timely data
  • Gain visibility into your pipeline with powerful reporting and alerting features
  • Improve customer relations with advanced communication tools
  • Locate shipments on commonly-used digital maps, including HazMat or TIH shipments

Multimodal Services

TransCore GVP provides a single platform which can track your rail, truck, container, barge and ocean shipments. Our multimodal tracking platform provides:

  • A single world-class web visibility tool for all modes
  • Track, trace, data completion, and intervention services
  • Mode-spectific integrated exceptions, alerts, pipleine reporting analytics and KPIs
  • B2B communciations with transload faciliites, TMS solutions, ERP systems, and barge/ocean carriers
  • Global expandability

BOL Generation

TransCore GVP offers a BOL Generator which provides a single location from which you can bill all your shipments. Our BOL Generator includes

  • A common EDI platform which connects to all carriers and reduces overhead
  • BOL templates that provide an efficient, automated environment
  • Ability to transmit BOLs electronically or manually

Asset Management

TransCore GVP includes an Asset Management Module that allows users to maintain lease information and monitor repair costs. GVP’s Asset Management module includes:

  • Lease cost management including audit, reconciliation and payments
  • Lease and contract information retrieval, including early out dates, expiration, rental rates and rider details
  • BRC uploading and review
  • Financial and cost analysis and allocation tools
  • Reconciliation of invoices to approved estimates before repair bills are flagged for processing
  • B2B integration with your ERP system

Asset Distribution

TransCore GVP includes an Asset Distribution Module that monitors assets and supports empty diversion decisions. GVP’s Asset Distribution module offers:

  • Timely fulfillment of transportation asset demands
  • Jeopardized plant pipeline tool that identifies plants in short or excess supply, highlighting assets that could be diverted
  • Release alert subsystem that identifies the assets that are available for diversion

Analytics

TransCore GVP has a robust analytics module which allows users to construct and distribute pivot table and graph style analytics.

GVP's BEAM (Business Event Analytics Manager) can provide:

  • Lane and carrier performance measurement capabilities
  • Scorecard and an integrated dashboard to measure, publish, and distribute KPIs
  • Benchmarking across traffic lanes and carriers
  • Overall fleet performance metrics
  • Comparison of service levels of different carriers
  • Correlation of plant loading/unloading times to vehicle types and identification of opportunities for improvement
  • Identification of carriers that have better transit times on specific carrier competitive lanes
  • Calculations of equipment utilization
  • Information on lanes that cause unusual wear on your equipment
  • Comparison of the amount of time your customers hold equipment while unloading material

Yard Management

TransCore's GVP rail yard management module provides both command and control and visibility to rail yards around the globe.Our YardRunner rail yard management module provides:

  • Cross-platform visibility to both yard management and in-transit track and trace from a single platform
  • Fixed or hand-held AEI tag readers
  • Reduced cleaning and cycle times
  • Advanced planning
  • Cross-platform KPIs and metrics
  • Empty inbound visibility

VMI

Our Global Vendor Managed Inventory module provides differentiated service to shippers and their customers by reducing working capital. TransCore’s GVMI module provides:

  • Accurate & timely delivery of inventory info via the internet
  • Turnkey installation
  • Reduced supply chain costs
  • Automatically triggered orders using advanced XML technology
  • CPFR (Collaborative Planning, Forecasting & Replenishment) integrates forecast and shipment details to optimize your supply chains
  • 30% - 50% reduction in inventory
  • Elimination of non-optimal shipment mode utilization

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