Digistics, the solution with unbeatable ROI

Reji John
Digistics by Unisys is a cargo solution that leverages digital technologies by simplifying business process and automating them to make the cargo business easier and more reliable. It helps carriers improve agility and process thereby offering an unbeatable return on investment.

Businesses world over are looking for innovative strategies to optimize their resources and digital solutions to improve cash flows and reduce or avoid losses. Airlines today are increasingly looking for cargo solutions that offer unbeatable return on investment.

Air cargo carriers face multiple challenges in today's competitive cargo environment, including the demand for high visibility, the push for automated systems and paperless processes, and maximizing available capacity – all within tight operating budgets. Digistics is a fully integrated system that provides full visibility of the shipment across the air cargo supply chain to all the stakeholders This provides airlines with real-time visibility of their shipments and gives carriers the ability to track and trace high-value products quickly and efficiently for an improved end user experience.

It is a holistic and integrated cargo logistics solution that allows carriers to streamline freight management and improve their operational efficiencies. Digistics enables air carriers to choose from a comprehensive suite of offerings or select the specific cargo services they need, including inventory management, booking, invoicing, and accounting. The system features cross-platform analytics allowing carriers to view past, present and forecast data for enhanced operations.

Digistics Cargo Solution delivers end-to-end cargo support. It leverages digital technologies, allows for simplifying business processes, and automates them to make the cargo business easier and more reliable. The digital logistics solution helps carriers to be more agile and offers them better visibility that helps them improve their business outcomes.

Digistics is about aligning technology to the business needs of carriers to improve competitiveness thus driving success and growth. From the largest carriers and integrators to specialist ground handlers and forwarders to the low cost carriers, Digistics by Unisys helps them manage their operations more efficiently in a profitable, secure and flexible manger while making compliance simple.

Improved speed to market, a competitive game changer in the cargo logistics industry, is a key value proposition offered by Digistics. Unisys’ community approach of running one version of the system for all clients ensures the latest functionality and updates for its client base. The solution’s backend rules engines configure updates in a day rather than weeks. This, according to Unisys, translates speed of change to value at the lowest cost for clients helping them in revenue and margin optimization.

"Digistics is a business led solution for the air cargo industry that features a modern cloud-based architecture that allows any carrier to easily adapt the solution within their own enterprise system. Carriers can now select and subscribe to the features they need for their business operations, while the advanced level analytics will allow carriers to identify the factors to help them sustain efficient routes, as well as improve processes on less efficient routes,” said Dheeraj Kohli, vice president and global head of Travel and Transportation for Unisys.

Available globally, Digistics is available all over the world and it includes the logistics management system, integrated cargo revenue accounting , cargo portal services, as well as additional value-added services such as mobility, piece level management including RFID support, service level monitoring , and advanced analytics. The integrated cloud solution enables pay-for-use billing for reduced costs, as well as fast implementation and regular enhancements based on feedback from Unisys' active cargo user group community providing optimal performance for carriers.