Container Terminal Operations are increasingly versatile with many systems and processes to plan, schedule and manage operations. There are added pressures on terminal operations from owners and customers to augment profitability, increase throughput, exceed customer service goals.
Bringing clear visibility into the various Terminal operational processes in the day to day operations is the first step. Next one would be to build comparison of real-time events with historical performances and future targets.
The ability to take business decisions improves when you create periodic view of performance (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly etc) with options to drill down to the bottom of the issues in the past and current operations and take corrective measures for the future. And get some concrete information to decide what could be done to optimize performances of Terminal operations.
Business Intelligence in Terminal operations provide immediate visibility to critical data for terminal and port operation managers to analyze the port and terminal performance.BI Reporting Analytics combined with KPIs & Dashboards help executives at terminals to achieve continuous improvement, get quality and timely reports, and make strategic decisions faster.
Above are some of the key Terminal operations processes where Business Intelligence could be used for optimization and improvement. Each area needs its own special way of analysis.
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