BluJay Solutions, a leading provider of global supply chain software and services, announces the launch of BluIQ by BluJay, a data and insight analysis tool that offers real-time, actionable supply chain data in a configurable visual dashboard. This API-enabled data solution provides a two-way connection with BluJay’s supply chain execution applications, to allow for action on specific data directly from the BluIQ dashboard.

“BluIQ by BluJay is designed to be a decision-support tool that sits across BluJay’s applications, extracting data from each application via APIs. This solution is part of the Data component of our DNA strategy. We’re excited about the additional value this innovative tool delivers for customers, who can make data-driven decisions as part of their operational workflow,” said David Landau, Chief Product Officer for BluJay. “The solution is very visual, with graphical charts and maps that are easy and quick to configure based on what you want or need to see; but what distinguishes this new application is its seamless integration to the underlying execution solution. With a single click, users can drive straight from the data visualization into a transactional function to perform the action called for by the data analysis.”

Any BluIQ by BluJay user can set up a customized dashboard view in minutes, with configurable widgets for a wide range of KPIs. In its first release, BluIQ by BluJay features integration with BluJay’s Transportation Management application. Available data views include scores of options to display key metrics for loads, pickup times, delivery times, saved searches, and other datasets.

Users launch the BluIQ by BluJay interface by clicking a button in their application. The tool creates a new dashboard for the user, who can then add widgets to their dashboard and select data sources comprised of their saved searches in the TMS. Data is retrieved for each widget, displayed per the user’s choice of options including gauges, pie charts, bar charts, maps, and tables. Future BluIQ by BluJay releases will include integrations to Customs Management-Global, MobileSTAR Dispatch, and Transportation Management for Forwarders. Beyond this first round of integrations, the company will be evaluating further tie-ins to other BluJay solutions. Customers can create a single dashboard displaying data views from multiple applications.

Landau adds: “Part of the BluJay Way is the innovative problem-solving our teams do every day for the benefit of our customers. Each year, BluJay holds a series of hackathons with our development teams to encourage ‘boundary-free’ thinking. Without fail, new features and investments are made in many of our solutions from the ideas and prototypes developed. BluIQ by BluJay is the first entirely new application that came about as a direct result of one of these hackathons.”

New service aimed at medium-sized companies integrates all the solutions an e-commerce business needs – warehousing, automation, IT solutions and fulfilment – in scalable, multi-user warehouses.

Building upon the e-commerce services that DSV already provides, DSV is launching e-Commerce Solutions, a comprehensive set of e-commerce services for shippers that serve end customers directly. The new service combines a standardised warehousing process, off-the-shelf automation concepts, IT integration and implementation into a streamlined service.

“The beauty of DSV e-Commerce Solutions is that it offers a seamless suite of services for e-commerce, giving customers visibility and control over their operations, stock levels and last-mile delivery to their end customers. The service includes a templated process, off-the-shelf automation modules, operational optimisation algorithms that bolt onto the central Warehouse Management System (WMS) and a pre-configured Distribution Management Platform for last-mile delivery,” says Hugo van Daal, Director e-Commerce of DSV’s Solutions division.

“Over recent years, we have seen a dramatic increase in the number of orders shipped directly to end customers. More and more shippers are asking for integrated solutions and DSV, as one of the world’s largest transport and logistics providers, is ideally equipped to offer these,” explains Van Daal.

“DSV’s activities in setting up sizable e-commerce operations for major consumer brands have gathered pace over the past few years, and we now run multiple mega-sized e-commerce facilities around the logistics hotspots in Europe, North America and Asia,” continues Van Daal. “Our new e-Commerce Solutions extend these capabilities from mostly dedicated warehouse operations into a true multi-user environment. This gives our customers much more flexibility and significantly reduces implementation times.”

Ronald Poort, Chief Commercial Officer of DSV’s Solutions division, adds: “We manage multi-channel operations for the majority of DSV’s long-standing e-commerce customers. It is the combination of retail flows – with the direct-to-consumer flows and notably the fluctuations and shifts or migrations from one channel to the other – that creates complexity. We have now combined our system capabilities with our specialist expertise to tackle these challenges.”

“We expect double-digit growth in single-line and small orders to continue for a number of years, and thanks to DSV e-Commerce Solutions we are now in an excellent position to scale our service offering across the worldwide DSV network,” concludes Poort.

F-drones is glad to have Viswa Group amongst one of its first paying customers. Viswa Group is one of the world leading fuel testing companies, receiving a high volume of bunker samples daily in Singapore.

On 1 May 2020, we collected a 1-litre bunker sample from one of Viswa Group’s customer vessels, which was anchored 2.9km from our drone’s take-off location. The beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) flights only took 15 mins in total, including the time which the vessel crew took to load the payload.

We envision a future where there’s no need for anyone to board vessels to retrieve liquid samples anymore!