Customer story · Envio 360

Optimisation for drayage, on top of the systems companies already run

Envio360 reads the transportation management system a logistics company already has, and turns it into something that can plan. We built the architecture that made that possible.

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About Envio 360

Envio Inc spotted an opportunity in the drayage industry to increase the efficiency of the entire trucking ecosystem with Envio360, an AI-powered optimisation platform for intermodal business owners.

It puts critical information — driver and equipment availability — at a planner’s fingertips, so operations can be streamlined and decisions made on what is actually available.

The problem

Most intermodal drayage companies run a transportation management system to track what they need to plan shipments. But a TMS is often an offline platform with no way to automatically optimise the resources it knows about, let alone visualise trips by urgency or driver availability.

That gap is expensive. A delayed shipment sets off a domino effect down the supply chain and adds cost for the shipping company — so coordination has to improve, and it has to improve without asking anyone to replace the systems their business already runs on.

So the product had to be compatible with legacy systems while offering a clean, modern interface that let people get the most out of it. That is a harder brief than either half alone.

What we built

Working with Envio’s team, we built a way for logistics companies to upload everything in their existing TMS into Envio360 and get the full benefit of the web application without abandoning what they had.

Underneath it, our engineers built a robust multi-tenant architecture — the thing that makes a SaaS product of this sophistication possible at all. On top of it, customers could visualise their information and coordinate shipments in the most efficient order, and Envio360’s algorithm let them make the best use of the resources they had.

How it ran

As a fully integrated part of Envio’s team rather than a supplier alongside it — which is why the product shipped on time and within budget.

The outcome

Envio360 launched as a one-of-a-kind platform in the drayage industry: intermodal business owners making smart decisions about drivers, equipment and shipments, with cost efficiency and performance improved against what a TMS alone could do.

They’re very progressive, and they always bring fresh ideas.
Larry CuddyCCO, Envio 360 · 2020

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