Infor Nexus Global Freight Management
Gain control of your global supply chain’s first mile
Global logistics control and visibility for cost optimization
Infor Nexus Global Freight Management Software (FMS) is a cloud solution built for cross-ocean, international logistics complexities. The platform connects the activities of international buyers and suppliers through native applications to streamline visibility with a world-wide network of thousands of global logistics service providers.
Key capabilities
Streamline global, multi-leg, multiparty freight planning with automatic updates from upstream changes
Reduce or eliminate time-consuming, error-prone manual freight management activities
Centralize enterprise freight rate governance and carrier contract management for compliance and cost control
Auto-tender shipments to carriers, book ocean freight directly with VGM-compliant data, and execute global plans through many regional forwarders or 3PLs
Track and trace line items through forwarders, 3PLs, and carriers with event-based and real-time data
Communicate, manage, and collaborate with trading partners and logistics service providers
Global freight spend management
- Improve ocean and air freight procurement
- Centralize carrier contract management for truck, air, and ocean
- Support global compliance with preferred carriers
- Accrue for projected freight spend more accurately
- Streamline freight invoice audit, approval, and allocations
Multi-leg planning for global moves
- Automate least-cost shipping plans
- Optimize plans for high volumes of orders
- Accept and track plans from 3PL/external systems
- Monitor shipment progress over multiple modes and geographies (e.g., at origin, over ocean, inland to destination)
- Accurately model complexity for greater control
Ocean and air freight procurement
- Support online, efficient carrier/NVO freight bid events
- Utilize faster bid analysis and counter process
- Conduct scenario modeling to optimize best-cost freight allocation
- Easily see shipping lanes not covered by bids
- Leverage historical shipment and carrier performance data clearly during negotiations
Ocean booking portal convenience
- Access direct connections with 95% of global ocean capacity
- Rely on robust data quality and cleansing features
- Utilize VGM-compliant data for booking efficiencies
- Leverage full carrier communications connectivity to track shipments
- Take advantage of exhaustive reporting and query options
Infor Nexus customers have experienced
$150 million
savings in total transportation spend
12%
reduction in logistics spend as a percentage of sales
25%
reduction in expedited freight spending
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