Utilizing Elemica's world-class business process network (BPN) and state-of-the-art automated processes, the Terminal & Warehouse Solution enables new levels of operating efficiency, service capabilities, and profitability for suppliers and logistics partners.

Terminals and Warehouses: Operational Challanges Impede Customer Satisfaction

Suppliers often outsource terminal and warehouse functions to Third Party Logistics Providers (3PLs). These partners store materials in a network of terminals and warehouses to maximize distribution and storage efficiencies. 3PL networks can become quite complex, with multiple communication streams and growing operational challenges. Ineffective manual processes often result in costly delays and errors, which ultimately leads to customer service issues and dissatisfaction:

• Excess and out-of-sync inventory levels
  • Lost sales
  • Excess working capital
• Error-prone manual order management
• Delayed shipment and receipt confirmations
• Technology and process overload

Meeting these diverse challenges demands a robust infrastructure solution that can unify, integrate and streamline business processes between producers, terminals and warehouses, carriers, and customers - regardless of company size, location or industry.

What can Elemica's Terminal & Warehouse Solution do for your business? 

• Streamline planning and management of shipment transactions
• Reduce inventories and increase control over capital
• Standardize and automate processes to increase efficiency and reducce costs
• Speed invoicing and receipt transactions
• Reduce errors via automated business process monitoring and alerting
• Synchronize shipper and 3PL inventories
• Speed ATP (Available To Promise Process)

Remove Complexity and Streamline Your Operations

The Elemica Terminal & Warehouse Solution drives operational efficiency by replacing complex, costly manual approaches with streamlined, automated processes. Utilizing intelligent business rules and unique exception-based alerting capabilities, Elemica automates order management, eliminates errors, and proactively notifies customers regarding interruptions. Elemica also strengthens collaboration among producers and 3PLs by eliminating communication and transactional barriers.

Producers receive numerous benefits:  

• Accelerated time-to-invoice and month-end closing
• Fewer missed, late or rushed shipments
• Reduced inventory levels
• Fewer errors and discrepancies due to automated auditing
• Reduced IT and electronic exchange costs
• Improved data security by eliminating remote access
• Standardized message formats and business processes (while allowing warehouses to maintain current technical capabilities)

Terminal and Warehouse operators realize significant operational advantages: 

• Increased margins due to improved resource and capacity planning and lower internal costs
• Proactive issue resolution, including exception-based alerting and PGI/PGR positive confirmation
• Reduced exception events due to "event change" and "cancel post-shipment" capabilities