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Managing 3PL logistics demands advanced technological solutions to ensure operational efficiency, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. With Aratum’s cloud-based solutions, 3PL providers can streamline logistics, enhance visibility, and improve overall service quality.
By addressing key pain points in your supply chain, Aratum enables you to deliver reliable logistics services without the typical operational roadblocks.
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Asset Management
IoT Integration
Real-time Visibility and Insights
To address the growing challenges faced by the 3PL logistics industry, companies must adopt advanced technologies that streamline operations and reduce inefficiencies. Leveraging IoT and cloud-based systems enhances visibility, automates workflows, and ensures route optimization, allowing you to focus on delivering fast, reliable service.
With these technologies in place, you’ll optimize your supply chain and reduce operational costs to stay competitive in the rapidly evolving market.
In 2024, the 3PL logistics industry in the U.S. faces various challenges, including lingering impacts from COVID-19, inflation, and geopolitical tensions. Regulatory compliance, especially with shifting international trade routes impacted by global conflicts, is adding pressure to 3PL providers. These disruptions are lengthening transit times and increasing shipping costs, all while customer demand continues to rise.
Amid these difficulties, customer satisfaction with 3PLs has declined. Shippers increasingly demand advanced technology to improve visibility and operational efficiency, but not all 3PL providers have kept pace. Only 66% of shippers now believe 3PLs help lower logistics costs, compared to 80% in 2023, while the ability to deliver better customer service has also dropped.
3PLs that fail to adapt to these changing expectations could find themselves at a disadvantage in this competitive, technology-driven supply chain landscape.
Source: Brasher, J. (2024, October 8)
Study: 2024 presents challenges to shippers, 3PLs, forcing adjustments
https://www.fleetowner.com/operations/article/55233797/study-2024-presents-challenges-to-shippers-3pls-forcing-adjustments
Aratum Solutions can significantly enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the 3PL logistics industry by addressing key challenges such as visibility, cost control, and operational optimization. By integrating advanced technologies like AI and IoT, Aratum offers tailored solutions that streamline supply chain processes, enhance data visibility, and improve overall customer satisfaction.
Aratum offers advanced technologies and data-driven insights to monitor, streamline, optimize, automate, and manage critical logistics operations. With powerful solutions such as real-time visibility, and IoT-enabled inventory management, we empower 3PL providers to deliver seamless logistics services and meet customer demands. Drive efficiency, visibility, and customer satisfaction in your supply chain operations with Aratum Solutions.
Aratum works closely with your team to tailor precise solutions that fit your unique needs, ensuring 100% satisfaction.
We’ve taken the first step in our digital transformation journey and Aratum Horizons has been critical to this successful beginning. We are already reaping the benefits of automating processes and scaling our operations efficiently and we have only touched the surface. Aratum Silo has brought us quick wins but also caters to our scalability and future rollout.
We are excited to go online with Aratum. From our initial requirements, the specialists of Aratum had helped us tailored a system that meets exactly our needs. We are very happy to have this technology as our business edge, our weapon.
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