AI Agents & Automation

Shipment Monitoring Agents

Not just seeing that something is going wrong, but doing something about it.

Schematic illustration for Shipment Monitoring Agents

Tracking shipments is one thing. Following up on what happens when a shipment deviates is where most of the time goes. A shipment monitoring agent monitors your shipments continuously and takes action itself when something does not go according to plan. The agent finds out what is going on, takes the agreed next step and keeps everyone involved informed.

01

What does a monitoring agent do?

Chasing missing information
If an expected status update does not arrive, the agent contacts the carrier itself to request it. Your employees no longer have to chase it by phone.

Assessing deviations
Not every delay is a problem. The agent assesses whether a deviation affects the agreed delivery time and how big that impact is.

Preparing follow-up actions
If a delivery is at risk of arriving late, the agent prepares the next step. That could be a message for your customer, a proposal for a new time slot or a notification to the right contact person.

Escalating when needed
The agent immediately refers situations that fall outside the agreements to an employee, with all the relevant information already set out.

02

The difference from alerting

Alerting tells you that something is wrong. A monitoring agent also takes the follow-up work off your hands. You can read how the underlying alerting works under Proactive disruption alerts.

03 Results

What does a monitoring agent deliver?

  • No more chasing calls for missing statuses
  • Faster follow-up of deviations, even outside office hours
  • Customers informed sooner when a delay is looming
  • Escalations with context, so your team can act immediately

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Having your shipments monitored by AI?

Would you like to see how a monitoring agent takes over the follow-up work in your transport process? We are happy to show you in OrangeChain.

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