Cubewise - Transport & Logistics

Common challenges

Predicting demand
Understanding demand patterns is key for optimising your operational decision-making and protecting your margins.
- Trouble with cyclic demand fluctuations
  When demand fluctuates, you face challenges when you either can’t meet demand or when you’ve invested in assets that aren’t utilised effectively. If you aren’t proactive about predicting cyclic demand, you’re leaving a lot of money on the table.
- Poor asset utilisation
  In transport and logistics, how you utilise your assets is a key driver of success. When your assets aren’t well managed, you limit your business’s growth potential and put significant pressure on revenue generation. It’s no exaggeration to say your organisation can face an existential threat. The only way to mitigate this threat is to invest in sophisticated data analysis that can facilitate better asset management.
- Data-driven decision making
  Cubewise and IBM Planning Analytics / TM1 offer a comprehensive planning and analysis system that can be used to analyse demand patterns and pull key insights that can inform operational decisions. The system supercharges your asset utilisation and matches your expenditure to demand to maintain robust profit margins.
Modelling external drivers
- Misreading macro-economic cues
  Transport and logistics company are disproportionately affected by macro-economic implications that aren’t under their control. Planning for and mitigating against these risks requires that businesses understand how to read the cues and act accordingly.
- Lack of resilience
  Without the right planning, your business isn’t as resilient in the face of external factors as it should be. A robust planning process allows you to anticipate different scenarios and put measures in place to mitigate against those risks, making your organisation more sustainable as a result.
- Advanced scenario planning
  When you leverage Cubewise and IBM Planning Analytics / TM1 you get highly sophisticated scenario planning functionality that enables highly precise and dynamic modelling of various internal and external factors. All that’s left to do to secure your business’s operations for the long term is to take those insights and act upon them.
Maintaining profitability
- Costs eating into margins
  The transport and logistics industry is notorious for unexpected costs that creep in and damage your profit margins. If you aren’t able to predict and manage these costs, you risk a declining margin that can put pressure on your business’s viability.
- Lower returns on investments
  Sweating your assets effectively is key to delivering a return on your investments and locking in robust profit margins. When you can’t protect your margins, you place pressure on your team and your shareholders, plus put your business’s viability at risk.
- Help with modelling cost drivers
  Cubewise and IBM Planning Analytics / TM1 enable highly advanced financial modelling that can take the complexity of your cost structure and break it down into key drivers that can be dynamically forecast. This allows for a nuanced understanding of what affects your profitability, setting the stage for better risk management and bringing issues to your attention well before they have an outsized impact.

Trouble with cyclic demand fluctuations
When demand fluctuates, you face challenges when you either can’t meet demand or when you’ve invested in assets that aren’t utilised effectively. If you aren’t proactive about predicting cyclic demand, you’re leaving a lot of money on the table.
Poor asset utilisation
In transport and logistics, how you utilise your assets is a key driver of success. When your assets aren’t well managed, you limit your business’s growth potential and put significant pressure on revenue generation. It’s no exaggeration to say your organisation can face an existential threat. The only way to mitigate this threat is to invest in sophisticated data analysis that can facilitate better asset management.
Data-driven decision making
Cubewise and IBM Planning Analytics / TM1 offer a comprehensive planning and analysis system that can be used to analyse demand patterns and pull key insights that can inform operational decisions. The system supercharges your asset utilisation and matches your expenditure to demand to maintain robust profit margins.

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Common challenges

Predicting demand

Trouble with cyclic demand fluctuations

Poor asset utilisation

Data-driven decision making

Modelling external drivers

Misreading macro-economic cues

Lack of resilience

Advanced scenario planning

Maintaining profitability

Costs eating into margins

Lower returns on investments

Help with modelling cost drivers

Trouble with cyclic demand fluctuations

Poor asset utilisation

Data-driven decision making

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