HERE and Amazon Web Services collaborate to improve supply chain visibility

HERE Technologies, which supplies a supply chain data and technology platform, has entered a five-year strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help organizations improve their supply chain visibility, transportation and logistics (T&L), fleet routing, and estimated times of arrival (ETAs) from the first-to-last mile of delivery.
 
According to Gartner, “real-time transportation visibility continues to be a key priority for shippers and 3PLs, and their customers.” By 2023, 50% of global leading enterprises will have invested in real-time transportation visibility solutions. Another Gartner report states that, “increasingly, supply chain visibility adoption is no longer a ‘nice to have’ for any organization— no matter the size, geography or industry.”

As part of the collaboration, HERE will list its supply chain solutions that are utilized by T&L companies globally in AWS Marketplace, a curated digital catalog that customers use to find, buy, deploy, and manage third-party software, data, and services to build solutions and run their businesses. Additionally, HERE will work with AWS to bring to market advanced capabilities for T&L participants to leverage, such as warehouse and yard management, predictive ETA calculations, and CO2 fleet emission solutions.

“At the center of supply chain visibility is location intelligence. We have seen now that deep insights on the ‘where’ and ‘when’ dimensions of operations deliver tremendous value, from optimizing inbound and outbound logistics to middle- and last-mile delivery execution,” says Edzard Overbeek, CEO at HERE Technologies. “We are proud to work with AWS on deploying these cost and time saving solutions for companies to minimize dwell times, predict ETAs more accurately across every stage, and begin the crucial step of measuring fleet CO2 emissions as the transition to EV vehicles accelerates and economies decarbonize.”

“T&L companies around the world rely on real-time visibility for customer satisfaction and operational efficiency. When shipments do not arrive on time, or don’t arrive at all, someone’s bottom line is impacted,” said Bill Vass, vice president, AWS Engineering. “The AWS Services for data management and aggregation power HERE supply chain solutions using AWS Services required for the most relevant customer data to be conflated with the latest location intelligence to solve the visibility and predictability problem throughout a supply chain.”

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