Digital Strategies to Improve Logistics, Transportation Operations

Looking to improve operations and save money? Check out some top strategies discussed in our recent webinar — How Digital Solutions Help Reduce Operating Costs in Logistics/Distribution.

Using digital tools to boost efficiency

CLA’s digital team has successfully helped several logistics, transportation, and distribution clients reduce costs through implementing digital solutions. These solutions range from automated reporting to insights into operational and business trends, along with automating manual processes — resulting in a more efficient operating process.

Top digital tools for logistics, transportation

Digital tools logistics, transportation, and distribution should consider include:

• Accounts payable/receivable automation — Manually entering invoice information from PDFs into an ERP system is time consuming — and can cause errors. Using automation such as a form recognizer can pull data directly from PDFs, saving a lot of time.
• Connecting disparate systems — Companies generally deploy numerous software including transportation management systems, warehouse management systems, general ledger, etc. Through connecting these systems and creating custom reporting dashboards, business stakeholders can better understand the data which drives impact and better decisioning across the organization.
• Use case prioritization matrix — Part of any digital strategy is understanding the various opportunities throughout the organization. Once these opportunities are identified, we like to create a use case prioritization matrix to serve as a digital roadmap, whereby ranking (or prioritizing) the various opportunities in terms of impact to the organization and ROI, and execute on the solutions that have the highest ROI first.

See these tools in action

Watch webinar highlights to see how these tools work and how they might help your organization save time and money.

How CLA can help implement digital in logistics

CLA’s digital team is well versed in many digital tools to improve your company’s operations and reporting. We can help create custom systems to suit your needs.