Two manufacturing companies ‘A’ and ‘B’ sell the same product. Both companies have good profit margins, employees are happy and the management is satisfied. Despite being in the same product, none of them pose a threat to each other as they have independent customers and more or less fixed revenues. Now that’s not the entire…
GoComet’s innovative freight shipment tracking solution has received an honorable mention in Gartner’s Research Report for Supply Chain Operational Visibility Vendor Guide 2019. The research report provides supply chain professionals with an in-depth analysis of the world’s leading operational visibility solutions Gartner defines the real-time transportation visibility platform (RTTVP) market as follows “Real-time transportation visibility…
GoComet’s CO-FOUNDER & DIRECTOR Chitransh Sahai takes to the TEDx stage! 👏🏻 Chitransh Sahai talks about how to move outside your habitual thinking style to get a more rounded view of a situation. He shares his life experiences of School and IIT where he claims of meeting the most wonderful people in his life in…
Did you know? 8 is the luckiest number in Chinese culture because of 八 sounds like 發 (fa), which means “wealth”, “fortune”, and “prosper” in Chinese. Even in Japan 8 is considered a lucky number because it is nearly homophonous to the word “Prosperity” (繁栄 han’ei), It is also homophonous to Hachikō. Now you might…
Are you delivering in full and on time? Is your supply chain department working efficiently? There’s a way to measure your supply chain efficiency and be sure about it. That’s with the DIFOT rate. In this post, we will discuss DIFOT(Delivery in full, on time) why it matters and how you can improve. Let’s start…
Do you outsource your shipment tracking process to third party logistics services? We have observed that numerous organizations outsource their third-party logistics needs to get to the adaptability and scalability that an outside vendor can offer. If their shipping needs increase rather than employing additional staff or extending distribution center space, they hire 3PL merchants…
Let me begin with a simple question… How much time and effort do you spend on tracking and tracing your shipments? To find the answer, let’s break this down. Let’s assume you have 500 shipments a month and you work with 7 to 15 shipping lines. To know the current location of all your 500…
You did it — you finally dispatched your shipment! It’s smooth sailing from here, right? WRONG. On average, one intercontinental shipment includes hundreds of interactions and more than 20 players involved– freight-forwarders, port handlers, marine insurers, inland transportation and so forth. In this context, shippers frequently whinge about the difficulty in getting actual-time visibility of…
Do you feel that adopting technology is difficult for you? Do you struggle to keep up with the new advancements in technology? Are you hesitating to try out new products because of your fear of not being able to learn? Agreed that GoComet is the latest technological product in international freight procurement. Obviously, it is…
We all know this simple fact. No customer satisfaction means no retention. No retention means shrinking customer database & straight drop of profit. By 2020 customer experience will be the main differentiator factor predicted by Walker Consulting. Not the price nor the product itself. It will first and foremost be about the experience – and…
Now straight off the bat, you’ll be thinking that the above looks a little strange. How on earth could the biggest cricketing tournament in the world helps reduce my freight charges? Well, as the teams are about to break for drinks, let’s read on, to find out how. First, let’s set the field. You’re a…
We always strive for the convenience of our users. We received a lot of positive feedback to have a GoComet mobile app to increase the accessibility and ease of use. So here we are with the all-new mobile app. The App enables you to upload quotes and stay updated with the status of your rank….
We have made some major improvements to the GoComet dashboard. Now you can have an overview of your freight cost analysis along with the number of containers shipped at a glance on the dashboard. There are two more new additions to the dashboard, Top Logistics Service Providers (LSP) and the Top Export/Import countries based on…
Have you ever wondered to look at the month on month or year on year trend of the freight that you have been paying for your export and import shipments? Would it not be helpful in order to predict the future freight movement or in making sales decisions by factoring in the likely logistics costs?…
In the pharmaceutical industry, a large percentage of the business is export-oriented. Since the goods are sensitive, i.e. perishable, they require a specific temperature for storing. Due to the nature of the cargo, most of the exports are done via Air cargo only. The freights today are very dynamic and every air shipment is unique…
There are 40 major shipping lines that transport your cargo from a POL to POD. Once the containers are booked, the job is not done. It is very essential to track the status of the cargo as: 1. The cargo is worth thousands if not millions of dollars2. Lack of knowledge of delays in exports can spoil…
GoComet is a cloud-based platform that helps you in automating your international freight procurement and rate reduction process, leading to the lowest freights and increased savings month on month. Now the question is how much of your time needs to be invested to start GoComet? From the management’s point of view, not more than 30…
Manufacturers all over the world have been importing and exporting for ages. While international trade has existed throughout history, its economic, social, and political importance has been on the rise in recent centuries. This has brought along with it similar operational processes, issues and inefficiencies worldwide. In all the countries, the shipper needs to negotiate…
Research shows that only 30% of shipping quotes from forwarders are provided in 48 hours or less. 14% take over 4 days and over 40% of quote requests are never responded to. What happens when your forwarder does not quote to you in time?1. Your shipments get delayed because you don’t have clarity on the price…
According to freight waves, Businesses overspend on shipping by a minimum of 13% every year. In this challenging scenario, manufacturing companies and shippers are struggling to deal with soaring freight costs to secure competitive prices. Without an efficient solution in place, freight bidding can become a painstaking process that can take weeks of back-and-forth vendor…
