Cleo + FourKites: Two Industry Pioneers Collaborate to Improve Supply Chain Agility and Visibility

On July 27, Cleo and FourKites jointly announced that we are partnering to increase supply chain agility and visibility across the extended supply chain ecosystem spanning retailers, wholesalers, manufacturers, and logistics service providers.?

Specifically, we introduced?an integration to?accelerate?data?exchange?for carriers across the global logistics and transportation industry.??Cleo will serve as an integration broker, providing the connections that enable carriers of all types to access FourKites’ APIs, accelerating their trading partner onboarding and improving supply chain visibility by enabling seamless data integration between Cleo Integration Cloud (CIC) and the FourKites platform.

This initiative will fundamentally transform the carrier on-boarding process, and that’s a huge win for our joint customers.??Here’s why.???

FourKites is the world’s #1 real-time supply chain visibility platform. Cleo is the global leader of the ecosystem integration software category.?With two industry pioneers coming together to light up the extended ecosystem by injecting greater agility and visibility into critical global supply chains, it provides an exceptional opportunity for businesses to create value via their ecosystem relationships.

As carriers look to open up B2B eCommerce opportunities, meet more rigid shipper and customer mandates, and stay competitive in the post-pandemic era, using Cleo’s platform to integrate data into FourKites can help them minimize complexity, increase visibility, and accelerate business growth.

FourKites pioneered real-time supply chain visibility in 2014 and has since built the world’s largest visibility platform that helps?over 600 leading global brands?track their shipments across every mode of transportation (road, rail, ocean, air, courier and parcel) and uses machine learning to predict exact times of arrival. This helps organizations lower operating costs, improve on-time performance, and create better customer relationships.?

Further, because Cleo Integration Cloud is the only solution that enables both API and EDI integration from the same platform, carriers will readily gain the supply chain agility and control they need to stay competitive as digital transformation proliferates.

Team Cleo is obviously very excited about the promise and timeliness of this new initiative.??And FourKites is too. Jason Eversole, Vice President, Carrier Strategy and Operations at FourKites, had this to say:?“Our collaboration with Cleo?is beneficial for carriers seeking to gain competitive advantage through improved supply chain visibility and agility.?The fact that the Cleo Integration Cloud platform now has the ability to connect and integrate carriers with the FourKites platform means carriers can sidestep the complex and cumbersome EDI integration development that previously held them back, which will drive immediate operational efficiencies and bottom-line improvements.”?

Well said. And as today’s businesses work hard to overcome supply chain disruptions, outsmart market volatility, and streamline revenue-critical business processes, improving agility and visibility is a vital and rewarding goal.?

I’m thrilled about this new development, and happy that Cleo and FourKites will be delivering integrations that are so unique and powerful that they’ll immediately help our joint customers become pioneers of digital transformation in their own right.??

For more information about the business and technology potential of the new Cleo + FourKites integration capabilities, please contact me or your Cleo representative.??

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