| The Logistics and Transportation industry is evolving driven by increasing customer demands and the myriad of challenges faced by the players in the industry. With globalization, organizations have reached for newer horizons and to support their expansion, they are increasingly seeking newer and higher value-added services from their LSPs either at same or reduced costs. |
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Cognizant provides solutions to clients across the Transportation industry, such as Air Freight, Express and Mail, Logistics, Ocean Freight, Rail Road , Motor Freight, and Infrastructure clients. Our goal is to help them compete effectively in an environment of change. |
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| Cognizant's
Portfolio of Service Offerings for the Logistics
and Transportation Industry |
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| We provide
solutions across the supply chain. |
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| Solution
Frameworks: |
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| Cognizant develops
unique solutions for pain points faced by
clients and not addressed by off-the-shelf
packages, by building innovative business
solutions leveraging past experiences and
industry best practices. These solution
accelerators benefit clients by providing
access to industry best practices, providing
flexibility to incorporate client-specific
features, and reducing time to implementation,
greatly impacting project costs. |
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| We have several
solution frameworks for the Logistics and
Transportation industry based on best practices
that help in reducing go-to-market speeds.
Some of our solution frameworks are for: |
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| Asset
Management |
Asset utilization and improved turnaround spells improve margins for transportation companies. Cognizant's solution for asset management enables our clients to improve asset utilization and performance by
- Ensuring real-time visibility of assets
- Better positioning and allocation of assets to business needs
- Fleet optimization
- Reduction in driver frustration due to minimized asset search time, and
- Management and monitoring of trailer pool commitments to customers favorably impacting both the bottom line and top line.
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| Yard
Management |
Managing yards has never been easy. Yards play a crucial role in distribution and transportation management. With an increased flow of vehicles in and out of the yard and complexity in the downstream supply chain, managing yards efficiently has become a daily challenge. Cognizant's highly acclaimed innovative Web-based business solution "Yardelligent" provides for
- Cost-effective end-to-end yard management by automating daily yard activities
- Drives efficiency with improved visibility of vehicles in the yard
- Reduces capital expenditure by optimizing the fleet size.
- Integrated distribution management by interfacing with WMS, TMS, and external trading partners
- Implementation within a shorter time frame.
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| Pricing |
Arriving at optimum pricing, executing and enforcing the prices has always been a challenge for our motor freight clients. To estimate prices for their transportation services, clients have used traditional methods like Excel sheets, which do not capture all requisite information and are error prone. Cognizant's "Pricillence" helps our clients
- Respond to customer requirements with the most optimum price based on key parameters, such as customer type, lane profitability, lane volumes, and back-haul.
- Increase revenues with improved pricing options
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| Department
of Transportation (DOT) Compliance |
Regulations imposed on the transportation industry have been changing continuously. Failure to track and comply with the regulations can prove to be expensive and can expose transportation organizations to fines, lawsuits, and higher insurance costs impacting the bottom line and shareholder value. Cognizant's Department of Transportation (DOT) compliance framework
- Encompasses all features that would help an organization comply with DOT regulations effectively through an innovative technology architecture.
- Supports a well-detailed business process flow taking into account the business needs of the enterprise and the regulatory guidelines of DOT.
- Helps clients manage information on drivers, fuel, trailers, and drivers' adherence to drug and alcohol tests governed by regulations.
- Alerts clients to comply with the regulations.
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"We continue to deepen our relationship with Cognizant because they are team-oriented,
highly responsive, provide flexibility and scalability to quickly ramp up large
project teams, and have multiple competencies."
Tim Brennan,
IT Director,
US Cold Storage |
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