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Home » FourKites Closes a Record-breaking 2021 at the Forefront of Supply Chain Visibility
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FourKites Closes a Record-breaking 2021 at the Forefront of Supply Chain Visibility

FourKites Closes a Record-breaking 2021 at the Forefront of  Supply Chain Visibility
December 14, 2021
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FourKites, the world’s leading real-time supply chain visibility platform, today announced a year of record growth as the company executed on its vision to build automated, interconnected and collaborative global supply chains that span transportation, warehouses, stores, trucks and more. The company saw triple-digit growth in total shipments and shipments by mode; drove 50% growth in new customers – including Barilla Group, Beyond Meat, Cardinal Health, Haworth, Kwik Trip, LyondellBassell, McCain Foods, Roehm, Rove Concepts and Yamaha Motors; significantly expanded its carrier network; and extended real-time visibility to more than 2,800 ports and 2.5 million facilities worldwide.

More specifically, in 2021 FourKites saw:

●105% growth in total shipments, having tracked over 112 billion miles and computed over 5 billion estimated times of arrival
●Significant multimodal volume increases, with 5X growth in ocean volume; 161% growth in rail volume; and 116% growth in air volume
●126% growth of its global carrier network to over 600,000 carriers, as well as a 50% increase in downloads of its CarrierLink mobile app for drivers
●Significant growth in Europe, with 148% growth in shipment volume; 2X new customers; and 35% growth of its carrier network
●120% growth in APAC shipment volume, now tracking loads in 42 countries, with 50% growth in its regional carrier network
●A $100 million financing round that included several strategic new investors who share FourKites’ vision for the future of digital supply chains, including Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P., with participation from Qualcomm Ventures, LLC, Volvo Group Venture Capital AB and Zebra Technologies

Alleviating disruptions with innovative solutions for every mode
Amid another year of constant supply chain disruption, FourKites doubled-down on its customer-driven innovation model, with more than 65 new features in FourKites’ platform resulting from customer feedback. These industry-first capabilities help FourKites users track shipments end-to-end across all modes and geographies, from sourcing to manufacturing to final destination.

●FourKites’ newly patented Smart Forecasted Arrival (SFA) capability, based on breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and machine learning, brought real-time visibility to loads that previously couldn’t be tracked, providing ETAs on 97% of untracked loads.
●Dynamic ETA® for Ocean now provides shippers, carriers and 3PLs with the market’s most accurate ETAs for 100% of their ocean shipments across all lanes worldwide, with powerful new tools for mitigating demurrage and detention risks. FourKites now covers 98% of global ocean traffic.
●Dynamic ETA® for Air has revolutionized the tracking of air shipments by enabling real-time visibility into 100% of air freight, with extremely accurate and predictive ETAs, so the supply chain can protect its investments in a critical but expensive mode of transport.
●A major upgrade to Dynamic Yard® enables highly accurate and granular data down to the level of individual SKUs, so inventory can be located more quickly and disruptions resolved proactively. Customers are seeing up to 30% improvement in workforce efficiency, 40% better dock throughput, and 40% to 80% reduction in detention costs.
●Order Intelligence Hub integrates order data, multi-modal load information, yard shipments, inventory visibility and other critical third-party systems to provide a new single-pane-of-glass view of the entire lifecycle of every order.
●Powerful new collaboration features – including Instant Messaging, an updated CarrierLink mobile app and enhancements to Partner Hub, its self-service, secure GPS onboarding solution – are helping shippers, carriers and brokers work together to increase customer satisfaction, reduce costs and improve on-time delivery performance.

Forging powerful new partnerships to accelerate end-to-end visibility
In 2021, FourKites forged new strategic partnerships with global supply chain and technology leaders as it continues to execute on its bold vision for the future of digital supply chains, where automated, interconnected and collaborative supply chains are optimized by real-time visibility data and machine learning.

New partnerships in 2021 include a global partnership with Zebra Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: ZBRA), in which Zebra is now reselling FourKites’ Dynamic Yard and real-time visibility platform as part of its suite of asset visibility solutions. Additionally, Zebra’s MotionWorks Yard solution has been integrated with Dynamic Yard and Zebra locationing hardware and professional services to increase the in-yard and over-the-road capabilities of its customers. FourKites also partnered with Consumer Brands Association's new Supply Chain Health and Performance Task Force, which includes 15 leading CPG companies that use FourKites to identify shared bottlenecks and inefficiencies. The company also announced a strategic partnership with DAT Freight & Analytics that will bring FourKites’ real-time, end-to-end supply chain visibility to DAT’s 10,000+ broker customers and 100,000+ carriers to enable them to enhance equipment utilization, increase driver productivity and run an efficient, sustainable freight network.

“It’s been another year of tremendous challenges, but also extraordinary collaboration and progress as a supply chain community,” said FourKites founder and CEO Mathew Elenjickal. “Behind each FourKites success and innovation are tenacious and passionate employees, customers and partners who continue to redefine what’s possible. I'm grateful to be part of such an awe-inspiring community.”

https://www.fourkites.com
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