The most comprehensive ETA e-book for logistics professionals
You can take business decisions on shipment ETAs only if you are confident about their reliability. Factors such as undisclosed route plans, traffic accidents, missing data or switching the delivery truck in the middle of an ongoing shipment may invalidate even the best model’s prediction.
We are delighted to share with you how to overcome these challenges and improve your supply chain efficiency and customer service. Read on to learn about the added value of real-time ETA in more detail.
We are delighted to share with you how to overcome these challenges and improve your supply chain efficiency and customer service. Read on to learn about the added value of real-time ETA in more detail.
Maksim Mišin, PhD
Lead Data Scientist
Chapters included
- The Key Benefits of ETA in transport logistics
- Pushing the envelope on ETA calculation. How AI & machine learning help predict the best ETA in logistics
- Overcoming Challenges of ETA Calculations. An insight into the real-world challenges of poor quality data that affect ETA calculations
- Getting ETA right each time. The meaning of ETA in different practical applications
Chapters included
- The Key Benefits of ETA in transport logistics
- Pushing the envelope on ETA calculation. How AI & machine learning help predict the best ETA in logistics
- Overcoming Challenges of ETA Calculations. An insight into the real-world challenges of poor quality data that affect ETA calculations
- Getting ETA right each time. The meaning of ETA in different practical applications
Key takeaways
Benefits of ETA
Understanding the benefits of ETA in real-time visibility and integrating those solutions into your business processes and core business applications is a must in today’s efficient supply chain management.
- Having ETAs and delay alerts in place reduces the need for check calls to drivers — and thus manual labour — by up to 80%.
Secret ingredient
The secret ingredient behind accurate ETAs:
- correct input data;
- accounting for external influences;
- a wealth of experience;
- domain expertise.
Providing good ETA
Even if all the necessary components of ETA calculation aren’t available, it is still possible to provide a good ETA estimate as long as the algorithms behind the calculation and supporting processes are designed to work with:
- missing data;
- errors;
- uncertainty.
The core benefit
The core benefit delivered by real-time visibility in logistics is accurate prediction of estimated time of arrival (ETA) of shipments. Using ETAs in bulk improves a variety of business processes like:
- customer service;
- warehousing;
- strategic planning.
Understanding the benefits of ETA in real-time visibility and integrating those solutions into your business processes and core business applications is a must in today’s efficient supply chain management.
- Having ETAs and delay alerts in place reduces the need for check calls to drivers — and thus manual labour — by up to 80%.
The secret ingredient behind accurate ETAs:
- correct input data;
- accounting for external influences;
- a wealth of experience;
- domain expertise.
Even if all the necessary components of ETA calculation aren’t available, it is still possible to provide a good ETA estimate as long as the algorithms behind the calculation and supporting processes are designed to work with:
- missing data;
- errors;
- uncertainty.
The core benefit delivered by real-time visibility in logistics is accurate prediction of estimated time of arrival (ETA) of shipments. Using ETAs in bulk improves a variety of business processes like:
- customer service;
- warehousing;
- strategic planning.
Radu Palamariu from Alcott Global
Thomas Muschalla from Saint-Gobain
Sarah Barnes Humphrey from Let's Talk Supply Chain