SmartCold Analytics
SmartCold Analytics provides rich insights into hidden trends buried in large datasets within the cold chain industry. Identification and analysis of historical data like temperature tracking, order management etc. leads to better planning, proactive preventive actions and a continuous streamlined processes.
Without Enterprise Performance Management, managers have poor insight into enterprise wide performance drivers and unreliable decisions are made based on partial information. An integrated BI platform can provide a single version of truth about an organization’s financial and operational performance. Many times business goals and strategies are not transformed into meaningful and accountable performance. By using Dynamic Dashboards and Scorecards, managers can get accurate, relevant, consistent and timely data.
Dashboard is a visual presentation that transforms raw data into meaningful insights. Visual Indicators like actual vs. expected sales expense trends by department can help managers to make quicker and better informed decisions. Dashboards can be used to monitor many types of data and to support almost any set of objectives business deems important. There are many ways to categorize dashboards into various types. The way that relates most directly to a dashboard`s visual design involves the role it plays, whether strategic, analytical, or operational. The design characteristics of the dashboard can be tailored to effectively support the needs of each of these roles.
The fundamental challenge of dashboard design is the need to squeeze a great deal of information into a small amount of space, resulting in a display that is easily and immediately understandable. Common mistakes while designing dashboard includes supplying inadequate context for the data, displaying excessive detail or precision, choosing an inadequate measure, choosing inappropriate display media, introducing meaningless variety, using poorly designed display media, encoding quantitative data inaccurately, arranging the data poorly, highlighting important data ineffectively or not at all and cluttering the display with useless decoration. SmartCold Analytics can help you to build dynamic effective dashboards that are easy to comprehend and help in the decision making process.
SmartCold Analytics is incorporated into Flexible Business Intelligence framework to provide deep insight into the status of BOLs, Manifests, Temperature, Tracking, Drivers, Vehicle, Shipment Delivery and Invoices at any point of time for all Time Critical & Temperature Sensitive Deliveries. Apart from these operational reports, it provides Predictive Analytics through Dashboards and Scorecards to measure KPIs as part of decision support systems in various subject areas like:
Customer Relationship Management
Order Management
Logistics and Shipments
Temperature Compliance
Vehicle Maintenance
Driver & Vehicle Inventory
Operations and Performance Management
Finance
Its data analytics tool provides the user with enormous flexibility to “play” with the data warehouse data without impacting the disparate, production databases from which it is drawn. Charting and graphing capabilities and the data analytics tool are tied directly to one another such that whatever is expressed in the data cube at any given point in time can be immediately shown in chart or graph format.
SmartCold Analytics Reporting Capability:
SmartCold database has a built-in STAR schema with dimensions and measures and uses a multidimensional data model, allowing for complex analytical and ad-hoc queries with a rapid execution time to support various kinds of DSS reports. Reporting on the following provides historical, current, and predictive views of business operations:
Shipments Trend Analysis
Orders at various stages
Customer Satisfaction Index
Vehicle Availability at various terminals
Vehicle Maintenance and management
Temperature compliance for Temperature Sensitive Deliveries etc
Reporting & Tracking:
As-of reporting provides instant status of Manifests during Pre-Delivery/Dispatch. It provides powerful integration flexibilities with Temperature Tracking devices to constantly monitor the inside temperature of the vehicles. SmartCold Logistics is also capable of integrating with RFID and GPS in order to provide instant tracking of the position of the registered trailers.
Temperature tracking data captured by SmartTracking solutions are made available in various tracking/reporting formats for users to review and take corrective actions in order to avoid financial loss and ensure safe delivery of temperature critical deliveries. Google and GPS integration capability also provide positions of vehicle status to guide drivers and users in various ways to make the shipment be delivered on time