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Warehouse and transport visibility

Logistics dashboards for warehouses, fleets and the customers who rely on them

Vantage Systems builds logistics dashboards that combine your warehouse management system (WMS), transportation management system (TMS) and billing data into one view of service and cost. Operations leaders see on-time in full, dock-to-stock time, cost per shipment and carrier performance by site, lane and customer, and customers can get their own service report from the same numbers.

Key facts

What it is
Service and cost visibility across warehouses, transport and customer accounts.
Who it is for
Distributors, third-party logistics providers, carriers and shippers with their own distribution centers.
Reads from
WMS, TMS, electronic data interchange (EDI) status messages, telematics, billing and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.

Which logistics measures belong on the first dashboard?

The ones your customers judge you on, followed by the ones that decide your margin. On-time in full comes first because it is the promise; dock-to-stock time and order cycle time explain why it slipped; cost per shipment, per order or per pallet tells you whether keeping it was profitable.

Each measure is defined once, in writing, with your operations and finance leads. On-time against the requested date or the promised date, and in full by line or by unit, are decisions that change the number, so we make them before building.

  • On-time in full by customer, site and lane
  • Dock-to-stock time from trailer arrival to putaway confirmed
  • Order cycle time, pick accuracy and backlog by shift
  • Cost per shipment with freight, labor and accessorial charges separated

How do you score carriers fairly?

By measuring every carrier against the same events from the same sources. Tender acceptance, on-time pickup, on-time delivery, tracking compliance, damage claims and invoice accuracy come from the TMS, carrier status messages and your freight audit, not from a carrier's own report.

Scorecards break down by lane and by month, so a carrier that is strong on one corridor and weak on another is treated that way at the next bid. Freight paperwork that still arrives as scans can be read by our freight document agents and added to the same records.

Can each customer get its own service report?

Yes. A third-party logistics provider can publish a customer view that shows only that account's orders, inventory accuracy, on-time in full and claims, refreshed daily from the same data your team uses internally.

That ends the monthly scramble to assemble a business review deck by hand. The account manager walks into the review with numbers the customer has already seen, and any dispute is about an order, not about the math. Our operational dashboards service describes how these customer views are secured and shared.

What we build for logistics operators

  • A network service view

    On-time in full and order cycle time across every site, with drill-down to the late order.

  • Warehouse flow screens

    Inbound, dock-to-stock, pick and ship status by shift, read live from the WMS.

  • Carrier scorecards

    Performance by carrier and lane, built from your own event data and ready for rate negotiations.

  • Customer-facing reports

    Per-account service views your customers can open themselves, limited to their own data.

  • Cost to serve

    Cost per shipment and per order by customer, joining freight bills and labor with volumes.

How an engagement works

  1. Pull a month of real data

    We extract recent orders, shipments and freight bills to see how clean the WMS and TMS records actually are.

  2. Settle the definitions

    Operations, finance and account management agree how each measure counts before it reaches a screen.

  3. Launch one site and one customer

    A pilot warehouse and a pilot customer view go live first, adjusted weekly from user feedback.

  4. Roll out and maintain

    Remaining sites, carriers and customers follow, and we keep the feeds running as systems and contracts change.

Frequently asked questions

Do we need to replace our WMS or TMS?

No. We read from the systems you run today, including older ones, and leave them as the systems of record.

Our sites run different warehouse systems. Can they share one dashboard?

Yes. Every warehouse system is translated into common order, shipment and location records before anything is charted. The heavier lifting there falls under our data infrastructure work.

How current is the data?

As current as the source allows. Warehouse scans can update within minutes, while freight bills and carrier invoices arrive on their own cycle, and each screen says how fresh its data is.

Can customers log in without seeing other customers' data?

Yes. Customer access is limited to its own account at the data level, not just hidden on screen.

Can it include fleet and driver data?

Yes, for private fleets. Telematics and Global Positioning System (GPS) data can add stop times, dwell and miles to the transport view.

Who is this a good fit for?

Operators with several sites, several systems or demanding customers. Read more on our logistics and distribution industry page.

Built for operators with real scale. Most engagements are scoped in the tens of thousands of dollars and up.

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