Eliminate D&D Costs

Current Challenges

Fragmented, siloed, incomplete data from booking creation through container empty return.

Poor visibility to schedules, ERDs, Cut-Off Dates, and various holds.

Low quality predictive insights such as ETAs and ETDs for key locations.

Limited visibility to standard D&D rates; inability to upload and leverage custom contractual rates.

Lack of effective exception management tools to stay on top of risk.

Inflexible data integrations prevents data sharing with other applications/partners regardless of maturity

Negative Consequences

Incomplete and low-quality shipment data lead to poor decisions.

Missing port, terminal, and vessel schedule changes leads to container delays and higher fees.

Unreliable ETAs and ETDs lead to poor exception management.

Lack of accurate rates and free time increases D&D risk.

Sub-par exception management results in process inefficiencies, increased frustration, and elevated risk.

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

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)

40%

Reduce Avg. Detention Cost per Container

25%

Improve D&D Management Process Efficiency

40%

Reduce Avg. Demurrage Cost per Container

15%

Reduce Container Turnaround Time

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

Free Time

Order/Inventory Data

Committed/Promised Dates

Example data points (OUT)

ETAs and ETDs

D&D Event Milestone dates

Actual Delivery Dates

Actual Dwell Times

D&D Fees

Plan

Origin

POL

POD

DEST.

Leverage historical free time utilization data to improve contractual free time allocation.

Access rich network of port and rail terminal dwell time data to improve container routing.

Track containers dispatched empty but not yet gated-in full.

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

Flag containers incurringor at risk of incurring detention fees at Origin.

Locate containers moving on rail incl. ETAs to the port of loading. (North America export only).

Track containers gated-in full but not yet loaded on vessel.

Monitor changes to vessel schedules to minimize unplanned dwell time.

Flag containers incurringor at risk of incurring demurrage fees.

Detect containers rolledoff the vessel at the portof loading.

Leverage predictive ETAs to avoid unplanned dwell times.

Track containers discharged but not yet gated-out full.

Detect containers on hold such as customs holds and carrier holds (North America import only)

Flag containers incurringor at risk of incurring demurrage fees.

Identify containers available for pickup.

Upload manage drayage appointments and status updates.

Track containers gated-out full but not returned empty.

Locate containers moving on rail incl. ETAs to the destination rail ramp (North America import only).

Leverage timely delivery notification to ensure warehouses unload containers in timely manner.

Flag containers incurring orat risk of incurringdemurrage fees.

Identify containers available for pickup.

Plan

Leverage historical free time utilization data to improve contractual free time allocation.

Access rich network of port and rail terminal dwell time data to improve container routing.

Origin

Track containers gated-in full but not yet loaded on vessel.

Monitor changes to vessel schedules to minimize unplanned dwell time.

Flag containers incurringor at risk of incurring demurrage fees.

Detect containers rolledoff the vessel at the portof loading.

POL

Track containers dispatched empty but not yet gated-in full.

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

Flag containers incurringor at risk of incurring detention fees at Origin.

Locate containers moving on rail incl. ETAs to the port of loading. (North America export only).

POD

Leverage predictive ETAs to avoid unplanned dwell times.

Track containers discharged but not yet gated-out full.

Detect containers on hold such as customs holds and carrier holds (North America import only)

Flag containers incurringor at risk of incurring demurrage fees.

Identify containers available for pickup.

Upload manage drayage appointments and status updates.

DEST.

Track containers gated-out full but not returned empty.

Locate containers moving on rail incl. ETAs to the destination rail ramp (North America import only).

Leverage timely delivery notification to ensure warehouses unload containers in timely manner.

Flag containers incurring orat risk of incurringdemurrage fees.

Identify containers available for pickup.

Eliminate D&D Costs

Measuring Success (metrics that matter)

How ADAMA reduced costs by $20mm

Join the growing number of leading companies that trust UnitySCM to optimize their supply chain operations

Eliminate D&D Costs

Measuring Success (metrics that matter)

How ADAMA reduced costs by $20mm

Join the growing number of leading companies that trust UnitySCM to optimize their supply chain operations

Join the growing number of leading companies that trust UnitySCM to optimize their supply chain operations