Optimise Processes, Maximize Profit Margins
From road freight transport to the use of driverless conveyor systems in the smart factory: the logistics sector has many facets. While the benefits of the Internet of Things call, the pressures of rising fuel and freight costs rise. Logistics and transportation businesses need now more than ever an intelligent view of their business data in order to identify new business opportunities, optimize processes, maximize margins, offer outstanding customer service and create space for genuine innovation.
DATA ANALYSIS FOR MORE SUCCESS IN LOGISTICS AND TRANSPORTATION
A software solution from Cubeware for the logistics and transportation sector keeps you ahead of the competition. Our Business intelligence and performance management software creates space for a view of what's important: see your customers and goods behind your data. Give your teams all the important information they need. Help them to make well-informed decisions. Reduce complexity in daily work. Show your employees opportunities and how they can exploit them efficiently as well as where risks may lie. We ensure that you always have an overview of all your entire logistics and transportation business – from head office to individual shipments. This frees up space for innovative logistics and transportation concepts.
Use your logistics data to generate valuable insights in order to continuously improve the processes along your entire supply chain. Monitor all the relevant numbers in real time. Perform detailed cost-benefit analysis. Simplify and improve your overall supply chain management. Incorporate impending bottlenecks into your planning at an early stage.
Effectively combine strategic, tactical and operational data and information – giving you a lever for increasing efficiency. Harness previous flows of goods and commodities early on to ensure fleet capacity utilisation. View route planning, driving behaviour, delivery deadlines and vehicle wear at a glance.
Quehenberger Logistics uses BI software from Cubeware
Salzburg-based Quehenberger Logistics offers seamless logistics processes from its numerous locations in Austria and Eastern Europe. A comprehensive BI platform for financial and operational controlling supplies a company-wide, standardised set of figures – implemented by Cubeware Certified Partner NumeriCon Information Consulting GmbH.
- Used in financial controlling, operational controlling and management
- From comprehensive reporting to ad hoc analysis
- Transparency down to the individual customer order
BI & PM SOLUTIONS FOR THE LOGISTICS AND TRANSPORTATION SECTORBe inspired by our tried-and-tested customer solutions!
Reporting with SAP Data
- BI platform for all planning and reporting processes
- Quick and flexible evaluation of SAP-MM-data
- Scalable system with uniform database
Essener Verkehrs-AG (EVAG) moves 300,000 passengers daily, making it one of the largest providers of local transportation in the western Ruhr region. True to the motto "Wir bewegen Essen" (We get Essen moving), around 1,800 employees ensure that passengers have access to friendly, cost-efficient mobility. EVAG manages their operational business processes with SAP R/3. However, the transaction-oriented platform is not adequate for handling the analytical controlling tasks. An OLAP solution that was originally used, a combination of the TM1 database and Microsoft Excel, was no longer able to handle the increasing demands of reporting. As a result, the existing solution was to be replaced with a controlling platform that is also capable e.g. of handling growing data volumes and presenting qualitative information.
“Importing the data to the SQL-Server created a uniform data source that we can analyse in a flexible manner with the Cubeware Cockpit and present in a standardised manner.” Michael Feller, Head of Business Management at Ruhrbahn GmbH
Application: Reporting & analysis, planning
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit, Cubeware Importer, Cubeware Connectivity for SAP® Solutions
Industry: Transport services
Dynamic yield management
- Detailed sales analysis of all booking data
- Complex simulations: fast and easy
- Exact requirements for targeted sales promotions
Travel operator FTI Frosch Touristik worked with Cubeware to develop an extensive yield management system. The system generates up-to-date forecasts on the sales development of flight bookings. This enables FTI to manage its sales systematically and to achieve optimum utilisation of its purchased flight quotas at the best possible price.
“We use Cubeware Cockpit to create precise, up-to-date forecasts of dynamic sales growth. The sales measures that we derive from this are therefore cost-efficient and extremely successful.” Stefan Gibfried, Department Manager, Capacity Management at FTI
Application: Reporting & analysis, sales controlling, yield management
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit, Cubeware Importer
Industry: Tour operator
Steering sales in the travel industry
- Flexible sales and financial analysis
- User friendly reporting system
- Reduced effort through automated data import
Hapag-Lloyd Kreuzfahrten (HLKF) has developed a BI solution for sales analyses using Cubeware Cockpit and Cubeware Cockpit. The sales department thus obtains analyses tailored to its need significantly faster. The ABC analyses of the travel agents – HLKF's sales partners – provide a sound basis for sales negotiations and commission agreements. In addition, the controlling and IT departments safe considerable time and effort thanks to the automation of the ETL and reporting processes.
“Cubeware Cockpit satisfies the different requirements of reporting to a very high degree. It offers different users deep analytical possibilities or paper reports at the press of a button according to their needs; we therefore see a high level of user acceptance.” Uwe Hass, Senior Controller / Project Manager at Hapag-Lloyd Kreuzfahrten GmbH
Application: Reporting & analysis, sales controlling
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit, Cubeware Importer
Industry: Tour operator
Management reporting for all management reports
- Comprehensive BI platform for reporting, planning and analytics
- Halved effort for monthly reporting
- Automated calculation for divisins with complex internal performance relations
IFTEC provides comprehensive maintenance solutions for rail vehicles and infrastructure. The specialist's complex projects involve complicated in-house service charging and were very difficult to model in controlling using Microsoft Excel. This is why IFTEC implemented a Cubeware solution for integrated company, departmental and sales controlling that standardises reporting across the company and brings greater quality, efficiency and flexibility to reporting.
“Flexibility and reliability are the two characteristic properties of our current reporting and which make our controlling efficient effective.” Christian Steiner, Head of Business Controlling, IFTEC & Co KG
Application: Reporting & analysis, planning, sales controlling
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit, Cubeware Importer
Industry: Services: maintenance of trams in Leipzig
Efficient QuAlity And contrAct controlling
- All-in-one solution for integrated quality and contract controlling.
- Modern web portal for reporting, planning and analysis.
- Easy to control from the specialist department.
Together with their Cubeware partner TIMETOACT, NordWestBahn has developed a system solution for integrated contract, quality and financial controlling, which supports not only efficient reporting to contractors but also internal
reporting. Thanks to the user-friendly BI solution, the specialist department responsible for task bearer management has control over the data and can control the optimization of quality, contractual penalties and in a target manner.
“Thanks to the Cubeware solution, we are now able to efficiently meet our reporting obligations instead of just managing our operations.” Heiko Schwafert, Division Manager Contract Management and Quality NordWestBahn GmbH
Project: realized by TIMETOACT Software & Consulting GmbH (Cubeware Certified Partner)
Application: Reporting, industry-specific sales controlling
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit, IBM Cognos TM1, Oracle 12c Enterprise Edition (DWH), Talend DI Enterprise (ETL), diverse feeder systems
Industry: Private regional passenger rail market
Making logistics more logical
- Universal BI platform for international logistics company.
- Integrated access to ERP and industry solutions.
- Drill-down capabilities to original receipts in a visual archive.
Salzburg-based Quehenberger Logistics offers seamless logistics processes from its numerous locations in Austria and Eastern Europe. A comprehensive BI platform for financial and operational controlling supplies a company-wide, standardised set of figures, which also allows detailed benchmarks on international business activities. The Cubeware solution has resulted in a significant increase in the efficiency of reporting and in transparency throughout the company.
“Cubeware has enabled us to optimally implement our information requirements exactly as we wanted.” 'Head of Controlling at Augustin Quehenberger Group GmbH
Project: Realised by NumeriCon GmbH (Cubeware Certified Partner)
Application: Reporting & analysis, financial controlling, operation controlling
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit, Cubeware Importer, Cubeware Connectivity for SAP® Solutions
Industry: Logistics, forwarding
Efficient logistics
- Operational BI for the analysis of the worldwide flow of goods
- Universal finance and process controlling
- Monthly reporting available two days sooner
The forwarding and logistics company SENATOR INTERNATIONAL has developed a Cubeware solution for financial and process controlling. The BI solution does not just provide classic financial analyses but is also used to analyse operational processes, which assists the efficient management of international flows of goods.
“The Cubeware solution makes our process and financial data available using standardised BI logic. This has made our reporting process faster and more flexible – we can generate detailed comparative analyses at the press of a button.” Patrick Schochardt, Senior Expert Controlling at SENATOR INTERNATIONAL Spedition GmbH
Application: Reporting & analysis, financial and process controlling, operational controlling
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit, Cubeware Importer
Industry: Logistics, forwarding
SuppLy ChAin MoniToRing with DATA AnALyTiCS
- Reporting- and analytics solution for logistics provider.
- Transparency of business processes through aggregation of daily updated data.
- Data quality reporting and data maintenance with write-back function.
STAR PUBLISHING serves demanding just-in-time and just-in-sequence supply chains in the automotive industry. The inventory planning with Excel was no longer sufficient for the agile logistics service provider and was replaced by a modern control system from Cubeware. The powerful BI solution supports detailed reporting and brings comprehensive transparency to business processes by aggregating daily updated data. Integrated predictive analytics ensure flexible and predictive inventory planning.
“The Cubeware solution supports our JiS and JiT delivery through sophisticated automotive Supply Chain Monitoring with predictive analytics.“ Wolfgang Kraiss, General Manager STAR SYSTEMS GmbH
Application: Reporting and analysis, aggregation of data, data management and maintenance.
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit, Cubeware Importer
Industry: Services
OUR SOLUTION EXPERTS FOR LOGISTICS AND TRANSPORTATION Strong partners for your success in the logistics and transportation sector
Numericon GmbH is an independent and wholly owner-managed business consultancy. We assist our customers in planning, designing, implementing and operating their business intelligence solutions. Whatever the desired scope, we help our customers analyse their current status, compile requirements for the coming system, define the target status, select suitable software products, implement and test the system – with possible customisation – all the way through to go-live.
Besides technical expertise, we also offer help with business-related and organisational issues. This approach enables us to offer the complete range of services required for planning, implementing and operating a software solution for automated, efficient reporting, planning and analysis as well as consolidation.
Core sectors: logistics, automotive, finance
Star Systems GmbH is a part of the Star Cooperation Group, which was founded as a wholly owned subsidiary of Daimler AG in 1997. Today, the Star Group is an independent, international company with more than 650 employees. Our principal areas of focus are business intelligence, SAP, requirements engineering and e-commerce.
Our solutions play an active role in shaping our customers’ success since we implement business intelligence in virtually all areas of a business. We assume responsibility for conceptual planning, process analysis, implementation and rollout as well as for training and coaching. Our customers appreciate the experience we have in complex corporate structures that we can contribute to the pragmatic requirements of SMEs. This results in transparent projects with clear added value.
Core sectors: services, publishing, wholesale and retail trade
As the business intelligence business unit of Cologne-based TIMETOACT Software & Consulting GmbH, we operate as planning and analysis specialists from our location in Münster, using technologies such as Cognos, Infor BI, IBM as well as Oracle. We are thus an independent and neutral solution provider for the public and private sectors in the field of strategic and operational controlling.
