Shipment Tracking
Extreme weather, port congestion, and labor shortages can cause major shipment delays and have costly impacts. While disruptions throughout the shipping cycle are inevitable, ocean shippers need to quickly respond and communicate changes to supply chain stakeholders and customers to mitigate the impact.
However, it can be challenging with data sources and systems that offer inconsistent shipment status updates, out of sequence events, high latency information flows, and a lack of context about delays. Shippers and the many departments that rely on the shipping updates, require faster access to data, increased visibility to proactively manage potential disruptions, and insights to improve performance.
Whether you want updates through a single platform or you would like to extract updates by APIs, IQAX offers powerful data through multiple channels so that you can increase visibility to best serve your operations and customers.
IQAX TrackIt
Collaborate on predictive insights and carrier performance
Start each day with a bird’s eye view of your shipments, analyze potentially delayed shipments, and take action with your colleagues to mitigate risks. Visualizing your shipments through an intelligent platform removes the detective work so that you can optimize your performance.
Empower Your Team with Predictive Visibility
IQAX TrackIt is a real-time ocean shipment visibility platform for shippers to visualize and gain insights about their cargo in transit. Its sophisticated engine combines data from multiple sources and leverages a digital twin, AI, and machine learning to continuously harmonize the data with enriched route information to correct and fill shipment visibility gaps through the shipment journey.
Displaying a unified view of your shipments, IQAX TrackIt empowers you to identify potential delays, view predictive ETDs and ETAs for better planning on a map and in a calendar view, and stay one step ahead of your shipments.
Each potentially delayed shipment that you catch earlier can mean avoiding tens of thousands of dollars in detention and demurrage charges, chargebacks, lost sales, or factory waiting times.
Elevate Your Supply Chain Operations
Gain control of your shipments with predictive insights
- Proactively manage potential disruptions with earlier notice to work with your carriers to make corrections, implement contingency plans and communicate updates with customers
- Discover the context of delays to understand the disruption type to determine how best to respond and analyze for future performance improvement
- Manage unforeseen events with predictive ETDs and ETAs so that you have a more accurate picture of departure and arrival times for planning
Reduce costs by improving your responsiveness to disruptions
- Manage downstream logistics with a bird’s eye view of your vessels’ locations to save time analyzing multiple data sources and have a single version of truth for your shipments
- Monitor transit times and dwell times to quickly prioritize and drill down on the details of carriers, ports, and shipments that need immediate attention
- Focus on your most critical shipments that could have costly impacts if delayed by having multi-dimensional views and analytics of your shipments
Streamline supply chain operations with enhanced collaboration
- Quickly identify, investigate, and add comments to shipment disruptions for teams to save time determining cargo status and avoid not repeatedly investigating delays
- Improve customer service with comprehensive information and quick responsiveness for customer-facing teams to access directly from the platform
- Analyze reasons for delays to support discussions and negotiations with carriers
Boost future performance with on-time and transit time analysis
- Visualize the monthly trends and severity of delays to see your overall performance
- Identify the port pairs and carriers that need the most improvement to find alternate routes and carriers
- Analyze transit time performance trends for your past shipments to improve planning
Take Action on Your Shipment Data, from Any View
AWARD WINNING SOLUTION
Accelerate Shipment Tracking
A large auto parts exporter uses IQAX TrackIt to look up shipment status faster for customers and gain insights about exceptions earlier than ever before.
Collaborate for Higher Performance
A chemicals exporter turns to IQAX TrackIt for their global teams to access the same view of their shipments to improve efficiencies and service discussions with carriers.
Reduce Supply Chain Bottlenecks
A large sporting goods exporter requires detailed, real-time insights to identify bottlenecks in the cargo flow and prioritize follow-up actions.
IQAX Shipment Tracking API
Build advanced shipment visibility into your systems
Continuous shipment updates from multiple data sources are hard to combine and reconcile to determine the latest status, yet it is critical for parties in the supply chain to know the latest shipment status to ensure cargo is delivered on time and to optimize performance.
IQAX offers the Shipment Tracking API for shippers to access their active shipments’ route and event milestones throughout the shipment cycle. Make your enhanced shipment updates accessible to your enterprise systems and create new apps to optimize your supply chain planning and analysis.
Access trusted shipment tracking data with intelligent insights
Combining your shipment data from multiple sources and harmonizing and enriching the data to correct and fill in visibility gaps, the Shipment Tracking API provides a unified data model of your shipments. With both the original and the harmonized data, you can follow up with your carriers to investigate differences.
For added insights, IQAX leverages a digital twin, AI, and machine learning to provide predictive ETDs and ETAs that can alert you to updates requiring attention and help you improve planning.
IQAX offers the API in a push or pull interface to integrate with your application design.
Business Benefits
Make Enhanced Shipment Updates Accessible to Systems and Apps
- Integrate visibility data with your TMS and ERP systems, saving time consolidating and entering data
- Combine tracking data with your data to create reports and run analyses
Fuel Your Systems With Shipment Tracking APIs
- Active shipments’ route and milestone details
- Predictive ETAs for the last port of discharge
- ATDs and ATAs for each leg of the journey
Boost Your KPIs With Enriched Data
- Gain control over complex global supply chains with trusted data to remove supply chain bottlenecks
- Make faster, more accurate decisions
- Evaluate supply chain efficiency and performance
IQAX Tracking Link API
Share active shipment information with your trading partners on an interactive map
While port congestion and extensive shipment delays persist in 2022, shippers need to continuously let their customers know when their cargo will be arriving, which can be time consuming with prolonged delays and often shared by emails and calls.
The IQAX Tracking Link API lets shippers track active shipments on a map and share information with your trading partners. The pre-built UI allows shippers to easily extend visibility to customers and vendors for the latest shipment status, alerts, route details, and position on a map to save time communicating shipment updates and improve customer service.
Business Benefits
Share Shipment Route, Location, and Exceptions With Customers
- Access an interactive view of in-transit shipments
- View the latest schedules and container milestones
- Spot shipment delays and changes
Illuminate Your Customers' Visibility
- Improve communications and customer service
- Save time finding out shipment status
- Discover exceptions early to take corrective action
Empower Your Developers
- Easily extend visibility without sensitive data
- Save time developing a user interface to access route, map, status, and alerts of a single shipment
Start sharing in-depth shipment information and context through custom-generated URLs to extend visibility directly to customers who do not have access to your internal systems.
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WHITE PAPER
Mitigating Risk in Ocean Shipping: A Supply Chain Executive's Action Plan
Real time visibility into where shipments are, where they are going and when they will get there is key for shippers to minimize and mitigate risks to supply chains brought about by shortages, climate change, labor scarcities and pandemic fatigue. A high level of visibility is also key for CSCOs and other executives to maintain the integrity and efficiency of their operations. According to the 2021 Gartner View from the Board of Directors survey, six out of ten boards of directors of manufacturing companies ramped up digital initiatives to address disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Download our white paper to tap into powerful digital solutions for transformative visibility to better deal with unexpected disruptions and eliminate blind spots in increasingly complex supply chains.
IQAX TrackIt
Collaborate on Predictive Insights from Origin to Destination
Extreme weather, terminal issues, and labor shortages can cause major shipment delays and have costly impacts. While disruptions throughout the shipping cycle are inevitable, ocean shippers need to quickly respond and communicate changes to supply chain stakeholders and customers to mitigate the impact.
However, it can be challenging with data sources and systems that offer inconsistent shipment status updates, out of sequence events, high latency information flows, and a lack of context about delays. Shippers and the many departments that rely on the shipping updates, require faster access to data, increased visibility to proactively manage potential disruptions, and insights to improve performance.
Empower Your Team with Predictive Visibility
IQAX TrackIt is a real-time ocean shipment visibility platform for shippers to visualize and gain insights about their cargo in transit. Combining live vessel locations, continuously harmonized vessel schedule data, and your shipment data, IQAX TrackIt uses a digital twin, AI and machine learning to provide you with situational awareness about your shipments. The platform’s intuitive data model unifies shipping data from multiple carriers and provides easy access to the progress of shipments. IQAX TrackIt empowers you to identify potential delays requiring attention, view predictive ETDs and ETAs for better planning on a map and in a calendar view, and stay one step ahead of your shipments with enriched route information that fills and corrects shipment visibility gaps through the shipment journey.
Each potentially delayed shipment that you catch earlier can mean avoiding tens of thousands of dollars in detention and demurrage charges, chargebacks, lost sales, or factory waiting times. And, opening up the highly interactive maps and dashboards beyond the logistics teams to sales, purchasing and support can improve communications and elevate customer service.
Feature Highlights
Take Action on Your Shipment Data, from Any View
Business Benefits
Gain control of your shipments with predictive insights
- Proactively manage potential disruptions, such as prolonged container dwell time at the port of origin that may mean it is missing documentation or will miss a connecting vessel on its route, with earlier notice to work with your carriers to make corrections, implement contingency plans and communicate updates with customers
- Discover the context of delays to understand the disruption type to determine how best to respond and analyze for future performance improvement
- Manage unforeseen events with predictive ETDs and ETAs so that you have a more accurate picture of departure and arrival times for planning, even when carrier schedules are not yet up to date
Reduce costs by improving your responsiveness to disruptions
- Effectively manage downstream logistics by having a bird’s eye view of your vessels’ locations to save time analyzing multiple data sources and have a single version of truth for your shipments
- Monitor transit times and dwell times to quickly prioritize and drill down on the details of carriers, ports, and shipments that need immediate attention
- Focus on your most critical shipments that could have costly impacts if delayed by having multi-dimensional views and analytics of your shipments
- With over a dozen predictive and actual exception alerts, take corrective actions earlier to update documentation to avoid cargo holds, minimize detention and demurrage charges, or make alternate arrangements to meet delivery dates
Streamline supply chain operations with enhanced collaboration
- Quickly identify, investigate, and add comments to shipment disruptions for teams to save time determining cargo status and avoid not repeatedly investigating delays
- Improve customer service with comprehensive information and quick responsiveness for customer-facing teams to access directly from the platform
- Analyze past performance to support discussions and negotiations with carriers to identify problems and improve service
Accelerate Shipment Tracking
A large auto parts exporter uses IQAX TrackIt to look up shipment status faster for customers and gain insights about exceptions earlier than ever before.
Collaborate for higher performance
A chemicals exporter turns to IQAX TrackIt for their global teams to access the same view of their shipments to improve efficiencies and service discussions with carriers.
Reduce supply chain bottlenecks
A large sporting goods exporter requires detailed, real-time insights to identify bottlenecks in the cargo flow and prioritize follow-up actions.
