What is Blue Yonder Network Transportation Visibility?
Blue Yonder Network Transportation Visibility gives shippers real-time, end-to-end track and trace for movements across transportation modes—using tracking events, dashboards and map views to detect delays and provide predictive ETAs—along with milestone and exception tracking, document management and configurable alerts.
In the past, once a truck left the dock, shippers often lost sight of it until the driver called or the goods arrived. Network Transportation Visibility changes that by capturing tracking events from carriers—sent by EDI, EDIFACT, API, user interface or the driver mobile app—and turning them into a live view of where shipments are and when they will arrive.
Why It Matters: From 'Reactive' to 'Proactive'
Knowing a shipment is late after it misses the delivery window is useless. You need to know it will be late while you can still react. Only then can you adjust plans to keep production moving and customers happy.
- Customer Satisfaction: It allows you to alert the customer. 'Your order will be 2 hours late due to traffic' is a much better customer experience than silence and a missed delivery.
- Inventory Efficiency: When you are confident in the arrival time of inbound raw materials, you don't need to hoard extra inventory 'just in case' the truck is late.
Key Capabilities
- Multimodal Tracking: Track inbound and outbound shipments end to end, domestically and globally, across modes.
- Predictive ETAs and Delay Detection: ETA computation flags delays so teams can act before a delivery window is missed.
- Milestones and Exceptions: Track milestones and related exceptions, with configurable alert notifications.
- Prepaid and Non-Operational Freight: Vendor-managed (prepaid) shipments and non-operational freight such as dunnage, point-of-purchase materials and returns can also be represented for visibility.
- Document Management: Manage logistics documents alongside the shipment.
The Blue Yonder Difference
Network Transportation Visibility is part of the multi-enterprise Supply Chain Command Center—Logistics on the Blue Yonder Network. Visibility is shared with the trading partners who need it, and it extends beyond collect freight to prepaid shipments, which helps receiving facilities predict arrival delays and manage dock capacity when dock appointments are enabled.