Data Feed

AUTOMATE YOUR SCHEDULE CONSOLIDATION PROCESS

Eliminate errors from the manual process of gathering and aggregating schedule data while providing schedules to your customers at the critical time of booking.

Carrier Schedule Consolidation Engine

Allow INTTRA carrier relationships to provide you with the most comprehensive schedule consolidation engine available in the marketplace.

Ocean Schedules is often the first part of a complex business process. If schedules are incorrect, or inadequate, the entire ocean vessel shipping process can be negatively affected.

Your ocean schedules date feed offering should:

  • Allow efficient and accurate planning for ocean freight movement
  • Provide you the opportunity to focus on your core business without adding development costs
  • Offer a reduction in errors caused by manual intervention The following questions should be asked about any ocean schedules data feed you are considering investing in.

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    Benefits
    Reduce Errors
    Our automated engine will eliminate downstream issues upfront, before it enters your workflow.
    • End-to-end automation
    • No manual entry
    • Eliminates human error


    Features
    Flexible to Fit Your Business Requirements
    • Receive the broadest schedule coverage daily
    • Multiple data formats
    • Select how your schedules are updated (full load vs. deltas)
    • Data elements include CARRIER SCAC, LLOYD’S CODE, VESSEL NAME, VOYAGE NUMBER, etc.


    Executive Brief

    Industry Challenges and the INTTRA Solution

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    A review of schedules is one of the first steps to better decision making in the complex business process of ocean transport planning and forecasting. An automated multicarrier schedules platform offers the most flexibility to analyzing port options, transport times/windows, contract rates and allocations, which all drive better decision making in the transport process.

    Having to gather multiple carrier schedules can be a manual process that is extremely time consuming. Using an automated multicarrier data feed is the most efficient approach to receiving current and quality ocean schedules data into an existing workflow process. The shipping industry faces challenges integrating multicarrier schedules into their existing workflow process. The major hurdle for this integration is the lack of standards among ocean schedules offered by carriers. Standards, among all industries, promote a common starting point, thereby making it easier to integrate applications into business processes (Tech & Trends, Vol.28 Issue 4).

    INTTRA business analysts researched root causes of ocean schedules data errors and then created an enhanced, standardized algorithm for producing the most comprehensive consolidated carrier product catalogue in the industry. Over a period of six weeks, more than the equivalent of one working year (2080 hours), a rigorous examination of ocean schedules was performed. The study highlights the difficulties the industry has in automating significantly dissimilar carrier schedules.

    INTTRA leveraged its expertise to develop an automatic multicarrier data feed, a consolidation engine, that cleans and interprets ocean schedules from multiple carriers. INTTRA has not only worked with carriers to interpret the different systems and challenges that exist, but also has worked with shippers to understand their business processes in order to integrate into existing business work flows. The consolidation engine from INTTRA offers a standardized, automatic single feed for multiple carriers with information streamlined for each carrier. INTTRA believes in the need for an industry standard that allows for consistent and timely information from multiple carriers.

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