November 2013
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was, find who the carrier was and figure
out how to log in to the carrier’s website
to find a tracking information and then be
able to give that information to your cus-
tomer that was looking for it.”
He says five minutes per shipment is
kind of a conservative number based on
all of the departments and systems that a
shipment crosses ... procurement, logis-
tics, transportation, supply chain, compli-
ance, finance, etc. The point here is that
Agistix provides the means to save time
and money. “So what we really do is fa-
cilitate communication, data capture and
data exchange across those departments
within an organization,” says Read, ac-
knowledging that for some clients, it’s an
immediate eye-opener.
“It’s really interesting for clients where
there are relationships across those busi-
nesses on a corporate level ... they may
have never seen all of their shipment data
all in one place. It’s uncharted territory.
It kind of gives them greater economies
of scale that they haven’t really seen in
the past relative to their supply chain en-
vironment,” says Read.
While some supply chain partners
typically move freight, Agistix aims to
be the technology partner in the supply
chain whose expertise involves moving
data. As Read affirms that demand for
supply chain enhancements will continue
to drive development of “the next great
thing,” he says, “Quite honestly, we think
we have the next great thing right now.”
