Capture Revenue on Schedule

Current Challenges

Latent and incomplete visibility to shipment deliveries.

Low quality ETAs to delivery location based on incoterms.

Lack of effective reporting tools to stay on top of sales order delivery confirmations.

Inflexible data integrations prevents key data points like ETAs and delivery confirmations from being pushed to ERPs or CRMs to automatically trigger invoices.

Negative Consequences

Incomplete and low-quality delivery data delays customer invoicing.

Unreliable ETAs mask potential delivery delays impacting revenue and  cash flow.

Sub-par exception management prevent customer service teams from proactively identifying and mitigating order details.

Inflexible integration forces reliance on emails/spreadsheets, impacting decision quality.

Lack of collaborative tools, like shared views, limits information sharing and collaboration.

Why Unity?

Direct carrier connections and a vast partner network covering ocean and rail data.

Associate shipments and related orders including order details.

Find orders and shipments by SKU, batch numbers, or lot numbers.

Frequent ETA updates for shipment deliveries at the sales order level based on incoterms.

Mature exception management tools: alerts, notifications, and reports.

Industry leading platform architecture. We support two-way integrations and shared views with any system or partner regardless of maturity. API, EDI, flat-files, spreadsheets, emails, etc.

Positive Business Outcomes

Stay on top of container and sales order status with high-quality data and ETAs.

Improve origin and destination operational efficiency using timely port and vessel schedules, incl. ERDs, cut-off dates, and various holds.

Manage exceptions using alerts, notifications, and scheduled reports.

Improve data quality and increase collaboration between supply chain partners with flexible data integrations and shared views using Unity’s Data Versatility platform.

Measuring Success (metrics that matter)

15%

Reduce Days to Invoice

10%

Reduce Days Sales Outstanding

Improve Cash Conversion Cycle

25%

Improve Customer Invoicing Process Efficiency

50%

Reduce Avg. Dwell Time

10%

Reduce Contractual Free Time Costs

High-quality connections to carrier, ports/terminal, rail, and partner data increases data quality (timeliness, accuracy, completeness, granularity).

Example data points

Booking, B/L, and container event data

Predictive ETAs and ETDs for key locations

Vessel routing and schedules

Port/Terminal schedules including rail ERDs, marine terminal ERDs, and cut-off dates (North America Only)

Various Customs Holds and Releases

Available for Pickup Confirmations Market D&D rates and free times by carrier and port

Rail station-by-station tracking and terminal ETAs (North America Only)

Flexible integration layer designed to accommodate varying levels of maturity. We support API, EDI, Email, Excel, CSV, etc.

Example data points (IN)

Contractual D&D Rates

Order/Inventory Data

Example data points (OUT)

ETAs and ETDs

Actual Delivery Dates

Orders/Inventory Delivered

Plan

Origin

POL

POD

DEST.

Utilize historical carrier transit times to assess tradeoffs between cost and service by product, customer, etc.

Monitor the Earliest Return Date (ERD) and cut-off dates to avoid unplanned delays (North America export only).

Improve revenue predictability with accurate ETAs.

Automate invoice generation immediately following a delivery confirmation based on INCOTERMS.