Supplier Visibility Activation at Network Scale
What we deliver
The Problem (Before)
Retail, high-tech and other inbound-heavy shippers don't know when their purchase orders will arrive. Inbound is run on emails, phone calls and incomplete ASN data, and where freight is collect-dominant and supplier-managed, visibility into supplier shipments sits at 30% or less.
Logistics Manager, Supply Chain Manager
The Outcome (After)
Supplier Connect AI identifies which of the buyer's inbound suppliers are already tracked on the FourKites network and activates shared visibility. SAM agents handle outreach to non-connected suppliers to receive current updates on orders and shipments. The network effect converts 30% inbound visibility to 80-90% without onboarding a single new carrier.
Only FourKites has the network density (500K+ carriers, 300+ Fortune 500 shippers) to enable cross-company visibility activation. Competitors without a multi-tenant network cannot offer this outcome.
Tracy
How it works
By activating existing network connections between suppliers already tracked on FourKites and the retailer's inbound lanes, FourKites converts the industry's largest carrier network from a carrier tracking asset into a supplier visibility asset.
FourKites Network Graph (500K+ carriers, cross-shipper matching) This intelligence exists because the Graph aggregates behavior across 882 enterprise shippers, 10,164 carriers, and 3.6 million facilities over 11 years. No single company's data could produce it.
Only FourKites has the network density (500K+ carriers, 300+ Fortune 500 shippers) to enable cross-company visibility activation. Competitors without a multi-tenant network cannot offer this outcome. The intelligence layer is what makes the difference. Building the basic capability is straightforward. Building it on top of 11 years of cross-company supply chain intelligence, with continuous learning from 2.5 million agent actions per month, is what took a decade and cannot be replicated with software alone.
Shipment Twin, Order Twin
Tracy executes the workflow. Every action recorded with full decision trace.
Cross-company intelligence powering every decision
- FourSight AI: "What percentage of inbound suppliers are connected?"
- Custom Insights: Inbound coverage dashboards
Carrier Management Transformation
- 24/7 Autonomous Carrier Follow-Up
- Multi-Channel Carrier Facilitation
- Touchless FTL Carrier Tendering
Validation
Deployment Evidence
Expected Impact Range
Related outcomes
Every supplier document processed and linked to orders automatically. Zero manual data entry. For supplier-managed shipments, FourKites creates shipments and updates orders directly from these documents, eliminating manual shipment creation entirely.
New suppliers live on the platform in days, not weeks. No IT projects required. FourKites onboards suppliers by leveraging documents and the underlying carriers already connected through our existing 500K+ carrier network.
Ocean bookings triggered and managed autonomously. The system monitors carrier performance against live arrival and dwell data, identifies when a carrier-lane pair is structurally underperforming, and re-tenders the booking before detention accrues. No human in the loop.
One billion hours of operational work completed by AI agents over the next decade.
