Kinaxis and 4flow collaborate to reduce transportation costs and emissions

It supports improved material handling processes with seamless integration into RapidResponse sales and operations planning workflows and what-next scenarios. Using optimization algorithms based on real-world constraints, including freight rates and actual transportation capacities, users are provided with actionable planning results.

The application reduces transportation spend and increases capacity utilization by optimizing shipment scheduling to consolidate orders and create fuller, more efficient loads, all while meeting customer delivery commitments.

Partnership for innovative solutions

This development represents the next step in an innovative partnership that already brings together the Kinaxis RapidResponse^® platform with its unique concurrent planning engine and 4flow’s deep understanding of global supply chain processes and the associated IT infrastructures to support customers in digitizing their supply chains.

“We opened up our RapidResponse platform to allow supply chain innovators like 4flow to develop applications to give our customers new functionality and choice and gain more efficiency in their end-to-end supply chain,” said Andrew McDonald, Chief Product Officer, Kinaxis. “As our partner and an established leader in transportation planning and optimization we’re excited to have certified 4flow’s first application on RapidResponse. It is a perfect example of how Kinaxis customers can gain additional value from their RapidResponse implementation, while helping to maintain a sustainable supply chain – something that is critical in today’s business environment.”

“Building on the RapidResponse platform lets us leverage our innovative optimization algorithms to create an application that seamlessly connects supply chain planning and transportation optimization,” said Kai Althoff, CEO of 4flow. “We are pleased to be working with Kinaxis to combine the power of concurrent planning with transportation and load building optimization to help customers save money, gain efficiencies and meet sustainability objectives.”

Kinaxis Transportation Load Optimizer by 4flow has been certified by Kinaxis, ensuring it meets the company’s high standards of security and excellence and is now generally available.

• Kinaxis Inc. is a leading company based in Canada that offers cloud-based software-as-a-service solutions (SaaS).
• Kinaxis RapidResponse^® is a platform and unique concurrent planning engine for managing supply chains. It connects data, business processes and people within supply chain networks, allowing them to work concurrently and make confident decisions.
• Kinaxis^® Transport Load Optimizer by 4flow is an embedded RapidResponse^® application that optimizes load planning to reduce transportation costs, increase profitabililty and speed up the loading and unloading of transportation units.