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FourKites today announced the addition of two vice presidents to its leadership team, strengthening the company's ability to help customers transform their supply chains through AI. The appointments come on the heels of FourKites' recent launch of Intelligent Control Tower™, which combines the world’s most comprehensive network of real-time supply chain data and continuously updated digital twins with an AI-powered Digital Workforce to drive supply chain automation.

FourKites®, the leader in AI-driven supply chain transformation and pioneer of the Intelligent Control TowerTM, has announced the release of its Premier Carrier List (PCL) for the second half of 2024, recognizing carriers that have shown outstanding tracking performance across all modes of transport globally.

FourKites®, the leader in AI-driven supply chain transformation and pioneer of the Intelligent Control TowerTM, today announced that it is withdrawing from the Gartner Real-time Transportation Visibility Platform (RTTVP) Magic Quadrant evaluation process, citing the need to prioritize breakthrough AI innovations using RTTVP that are fundamentally reshaping supply chain operations.

Today at Manifest Vegas, FourKites announced the general availability of Tracy and Sam, the first digital workers in a new system of AI agents purpose-built for supply chain orchestration. This launch marks the company’s fundamental shift from software-as-a-service to service-as-software, where AI agents don't just assist human workers but autonomously perform complex supply chain workflows.

As they face persistent challenges with complex systems, network blind spots, and translating data into timely, actionable insights, U.S. supply chain leaders are optimistic about AI's potential to automate routine operations. That’s according to survey findings released today in a new report, Why You Should Rethink Your Supply Chain Tech, by FourKites, the leader in AI-driven supply chain transformation.

FourKites today announced the next evolution in supply chain technology with the launch of Intelligent Control Tower™. The result of years of deep innovation alongside customers, the FourKites® Intelligent Control Tower™ is a radical departure from the backward-looking planning and reporting control towers that previously defined the market. Powered by a new digital workforce of AI agents, Intelligent Control Tower™ can take autonomous action across complex supply chain workflows, in addition to surfacing insights, assessing risk, and making prescriptive recommendations.

Leading real-time supply chain visibility platform FourKites® today announced that for the seventh straight year, it has received FreightWaves’ prestigious FreightTech 25 award, which recognizes the 25 most innovative companies in transportation and logistics over the past calendar year. Selected by a judging panel of approximately 80 supply chain CEOs, leaders, academics and investors, FourKites is one of only three companies to be named to the list every year since the awards’ launch.

FourKites today announced that it has resolved two legal disputes with project44. The first involved a complaint by FourKites over project44’s hiring of two FourKites employees. The second involved an older complaint by project44 regarding two emails sent five years ago by FourKites founder and CEO Mathew Elenjickal to three individuals associated with project44.

Leading real-time supply chain visibility platform FourKites® today announced it has been chosen by chemical manufacturer Organik Kimya to provide supply chain visibility for its global shipments.

Leading real-time supply chain visibility platform FourKites® today announced the recipients of its annual customer awards, celebrating outstanding customer and partner accomplishments, ingenuity and collaborative initiatives that bring unparalleled value to complex supply chains. This year’s accolades include the Golden Kite Awards as well as the High Flyer Award, which recognizes individual users who advocate for visibility within their organization.

Leading real-time supply chain visibility provider FourKites today announced a strategic partnership that brings AI-platform provider EAIGLE’s advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) and computer vision platform to FourKites’ groundbreaking Dynamic YardⓇ and Appointment ManagerTM solutions. The integration of EAIGLE’s AI platform within FourKites’ pioneering yard management solution (YMS) and site schedule optimizer enables full automation in gate and yard operations and gives facilities managers powerful new capabilities to streamline operations, optimize labor, and reduce lost loads through continuous yard monitoring and data collection.

Leading real-time supply chain visibility provider FourKites® is proud to announce the release of its Premier Carrier List (PCL) for the first half of 2024, highlighting carriers that have demonstrated the highest standards of tracking across all modes of transport. For shippers, working with carriers on this list means delivering best-in-class service, ensuring reliability, operational excellence and a superior experience for their customers.

Leading real-time supply chain visibility provider FourKites® today announced that it has expanded its relationship with outdoor retailer Orvis. A longtime FourKites customer, Orvis is now using FourKites’ Order Insights to improve on-time delivery (OTD), inventory management and customer satisfaction.

Leading supply chain visibility provider FourKites today announced it has been chosen by Clariant, a sustainability-focused specialty chemical company, to provide comprehensive supply chain visibility for its ocean shipments. In just six weeks after implementing FourKites, Clariant achieved its highest-ever tracking percentage for international shipments, paving the way for rapid return on investment, streamlined operations and improved customer satisfaction.

Honda’s divisions of Motorcycle and Power Products Operations has strategically selected BuyCo and leading real-time supply chain visibility provider FourKites to streamline their container shipping operations. With a focus on boosting efficiency and enhancing visibility, Honda's collaboration with these industry-leading technology providers marks a significant step toward advancing their supply chain.

Westlake Global Compounds announced a significant enhancement to its logistics and customer service offerings: real-time shipment tracking in collaboration with leading supply chain visibility platform FourKites®. FourKites’ innovative technology and market-leading data quality are set to transform the way Westlake Global Compounds services its clients across North America. In addition to the company’s innovative solutions, including custom stocking programs and specialty packaging, the company will now leverage FourKites’ real-time supply chain visibility to predict and prevent disruptions to its shipments.

Leading real-time supply chain visibility provider FourKites® today announced its role as a Collaborator in the Scheduling Standards Consortium (SSC) as the first real-time visibility platform participating. FourKites joins organizations involved with the SSC — including Arrive Logistics, BlueYonder, Coyote Logistics, DHL, e2open, Echo, J.B. Hunt Transport, Lineage, Mastery, One Network Enterprises, Oracle, Ryder, TI NTG, Uber Freight, Werner and Worldwide Express — which aims to foster greater efficiency within the supply chain technology landscape.

Leading real-time supply chain visibility provider FourKites today announced that it will join Bayer and Graphic Packaging International in two separate tracks at the upcoming Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo™ 2024, where the world’s chief supply chain officers (CSCOs), experts and supply chain leaders meet to share insights and strategies that can drive tangible impact in their organizations.

Leading real-time supply chain visibility platform FourKites® and BuyCo, a top-tier container shipping platform, today announced a strategic partnership to provide Fortune 500 shippers with comprehensive visibility and control throughout the entire container shipping process. This visibility spans both inland and ocean shipments, from initial planning and booking to real-time transportation visibility, carbon emissions control and inventory management.

Leading real-time supply chain visibility company FourKites® today announced that, for the fourth consecutive year, it has been named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Real-Time Transportation Visibility Platforms (RTTVPs)*. Gartner evaluated seven vendors for its report, and FourKites has been recognized as a Leader both for its Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision.

Leading real-time supply chain visibility provider FourKites® today announced the promotion of Priya Rajagopalan to President of Product, Technology and Operations, as well as the appointment of Ron Richardson as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). These appointments underscore FourKites’ focus on rapid growth and innovation, with an eye toward solving customers’ most pressing needs.

Leading real-time supply chain visibility provider FourKites® today announced the appointment of Dan Abramson, Senior Vice President and Head of Sales, to the Board of Directors of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM). Joining industry giants such as Dow Inc., Toyota, ExxonMobil, General Mills and others, Abramson will bolster NAM’s leadership in policy advocacy, legal action, workforce solutions and operational excellence.

Barilla, the world leader in pasta production, announced today that it has achieved 80% visibility into the entire lifecycle of its ocean and road shipments, thanks to leading supply chain visibility provider FourKites®. The end-to-end transparency offered by FourKites allows Barilla to see exactly where its goods are anywhere in the supply chain, as well as when they’ll arrive at their final destination. In the face of military conflict in the Red Sea, disruptive weather events and supply shortages, this comprehensive visibility is critical for Barilla to achieve a resilient supply chain that ensures products get to customers in the most efficient way and with the best service.

Leading real-time supply chain visibility provider FourKites today published its global Premier Carrier List (PCL), recognizing the growing community of brokers, carriers and 3PLs who are achieving the highest standards of visibility-related operational excellence across all modes of transport. Carriers featured on FourKites’ PCL deliver high-quality and consistent shipment data, facilitating faster turnaround times and optimized performance for shippers and carriers alike.

Leading supply chain visibility provider FourKites® today announced several enhancements to Dynamic Ocean®, its next-generation ocean visibility solution. By providing better context, clarity and control throughout every ocean shipment, these new features help FourKites users worldwide mitigate disruptions, including conflict on the Red Sea and low water levels in the Panama Canal; reduce costly fees like preventable detention and demurrage charges; and exceed customer expectations.

FourKites, a leading supply chain visibility company and a Technology Alliance Partner in the Zebra Technologies’ PartnerConnect Program, will be showcasing its real-time visibility integration with Zebra’s Workcloud Workforce Optimization Suite at NRF 2024: Retail’s Big Show, to be held in New York on January 14-16, 2024 (booth #3203). The integration specifically aligns with Workcloud Task Management and Workcloud Scheduling applications to optimize workforce management and task execution, and to better engage frontline workers. This integration enables real-time mobile updates from FourKites’ market-leading multimodal Dynamic ETAs® and live tracking details, to quickly update labor schedules and assign related tasks based on shipment arrival times.

Leading supply chain visibility provider FourKites today announced the availability of FourKites Academy, a comprehensive training platform designed to help supply chain professionals advance in their careers and business goals with high-quality, industry-recognized training resources. In addition to offering a Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP)-accredited course, the Academy helps FourKites customers and their extended ecosystem — including third-party logistics providers (3PLs), carriers, brokers and transportation management partners — keep pace with FourKites’ latest innovations and derive maximum value from the platform.

Leading supply chain visibility provider FourKites will host a three-part educational series, titled “Accelerating Value from Visibility,” showcasing the impact of real-time supply chain visibility across all segments of supply chain operations. The sessions will feature stories from seven industry giants — Dollar Tree, Cardinal Health, Eastman, Bayer, Niagara Bottling, Reynolds Consumer Products and Relex — who will share their success with leveraging visibility to accelerate value for their teams.

FourKites today announced new additions to its senior leadership team to maximize customer value. Technology industry veteran Sean Fallon returns to FourKites as Chief Strategy Officer to drive strategy and support continued growth. Chief Product Officer Priya Rajagopalan takes on an expanded role that closely aligns customer operations and product development teams to maximize customer value. In addition, Mike DeAngelis joins as Head of International Solutions with a focus on ocean, having formerly worked at Maersk, WiseTech Global and project44.

FourKites today announced that for the seventh straight year, the real-time supply chain visibility pioneer has been named to FreightWaves’ FreightTech 25, which recognizes the most innovative and disruptive companies in the freight technology sector. Selected by scores of CEOs, industry leaders, academics and investors, FourKites is the only visibility provider named to this year’s list — and together with Amazon Freight and J.B. Hunt, is one of only three companies to appear on every list since 2018.

Leading supply chain visibility provider FourKites today announced the availability of a new Inbound Visibility solution that provides customers with a highly predictive, accurate and seamless way to manage all inbound orders and shipments across all modes, through the entire order lifecycle. By analyzing real-time data throughout the freight journey, the solution enhances a company’s ability to manage all inbound shipments and orders accurately. Moreover, it helps users across an organization identify disruptions and prioritize actions based on those that will have the highest impact on the business.

Leading supply chain visibility provider FourKites today announced the addition of Bill Maw as the company’s new chief financial officer (CFO). Maw brings a decades-long track record of successfully leading high-growth companies through financing rounds, mergers and acquisitions, and IPO readiness, and has built finance teams supporting businesses across the globe. He joins FourKites at a time of tremendous opportunity and growth for the company and the supply chain industry as a whole, as the real-time visibility pioneer leads the transition to increasingly automated, interconnected and collaborative global supply chains enabled by real-time execution systems.

Leading supply chain visibility provider FourKites today announced several new capabilities within its AI-enabled Appointment Manager solution that further automate distribution center, warehouse, plant and cross-dock pickup, as well as delivery calendar management, while simplifying communication between shippers, carriers and drivers.

Leading supply chain visibility provider FourKites today announced that Teva, a global leader in generic and innovative medicines, has achieved a 0.005% incident rate by leveraging FourKites’ global carrier visibility solution, NIC-Place. With NIC-Place, Teva has instant access to and can react to high-quality temperature and theft data, which saves time and avoids loss of goods.

Supply chain leaders cite the need to reduce costs, improve the customer experience and expedite delivery times as their top-three challenges, yet fewer than half are leveraging their supply chain data to inform their strategy and 14% aren’t using supply chain data at all to make decisions. That’s according to survey findings released today in a new report, “Data-Driven Decisions: Why Many Supply Chains Are Falling Behind,” by leading supply chain visibility provider FourKites.

Leading supply chain visibility provider FourKites announced today the opening of a new global headquarters in the heart of downtown Chicago. The state-of-the-art facility with sweeping riverfront views provides a beautiful, modern workspace for employees to collaborate, while allowing them to flex easily between in-person and remote work as they support the company’s growing global customer base and teams.

Leading supply chain visibility provider FourKites has announced the recipients of its annual customer awards, celebrating exceptional customer and partner achievements, ingenuity and collaborative initiatives that bring unprecedented value to complex supply chains. Recognitions this year include the annual Golden Kite Awards; the inaugural High Flyer Award, which recognizes individual users who champion visibility within their organization; and new Innovation Partner and Go-To-Market Partner of the Year awards.

Leading supply chain visibility provider FourKites today announced the launch of Fin AI, a new natural language interface that helps customers surface buried insights; identify opportunities for optimization; and automate time-consuming tasks, such as assessing the impact of events across a shipment network. Leveraging the largest supply chain data network, Fin AI represents a significant milestone in shifting supply chain managers from reactive to proactive decision-making, and achieving automated supply chain orchestration at scale.

Leading supply chain visibility provider FourKites today announced the launch of My Workspace, a customizable dashboard that displays connected insights from across the FourKites product suite in a single, unified view. This seamless experience allows users to access critical supply chain insights faster than ever, while leveraging the FourKites platform as a single source of truth for the entire organization — from operational users to the C-suite.

Leading supply chain visibility provider FourKites today announced that the world’s top supply chain technology innovators will gather at Visibility 2023 to demonstrate the power and value of sharing real-time visibility data across supply chain ecosystems. FourKites technology partners, integrators and consultants will demonstrate to attendees the vast potential for real-time data to drive greater collaboration and smarter, faster decision-making across the end-to-end supply chain — from manufacturing, sourcing and planning, to the yard, distribution and end consumer.

Industry veterans from SAP, Coupa, SAS, Korn Ferry and EY are the latest in a wave of executive-level hires at FourKites to continue to drive accelerated global growth

New program helps companies using other supply chain visibility solutions to easily transition to FourKites’ market-leading platform

Supply chain execs, representing half of the Fortune 500, will convene at the world’s most influential supply chain symposium to connect, learn and grow through real-time visibility

New executive hires from Google and EY underscore FourKites’ unwavering commitment to cutting-edge innovation and customer value

Continued growth among Premier Carriers underscores the importance of real-time supply chain visibility to improve performance and customer satisfaction

New industry veteran hires underscore the supply chain visibility leader’s continued growth and proven ability to deliver customer value and innovation

Trane Technologies schedules one millionth appointment with Appointment Manager, underscoring the solution’s rapidly growing success across all major industries

FourKites enhances supply chain visibility, transparency and customer service for NFI partners across North America

CHICAGO, June 06, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Leading supply chain visibility provider FourKites has been named winner of the 2023 Gartner Marketing and Communications Awards for Excellence in Reputation and Thought Leadership. Selected by a panel of leading chief marketing officers and chief content officers, FourKites was selected for its use of real-time data and dissemination of strong executive perspective throughout the supply chain disruptions of 2022, providing much-needed analysis and insights.

In the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Real-time Transportation Visibility Solutions, FourKites continues to be recognized as a Leader for its Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision

Exclusive partnership will bring real-time visibility into purchase orders and inbound shipments to streamline inventory management, manufacturing and distribution

New features enhance FourKites’ end-to-end supply chain visibility across a “single pane of glass”

CHICAGO, May 04, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Leading supply chain visibility provider FourKites today announced that it will join The Coca-Cola Company, North America in a discussion titled, “From Silos to Synergy: How Real-Time Visibility is Putting Data to Work,” on Monday, May 8, 4:00 pm EDT at the upcoming Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo™ 2023. FourKites experts will also lead a session with Reynolds Consumer Products — “The Value of Visibility Everywhere” — that will be held on Tuesday, May 9, 1:05 pm EDT.

New enhancements to FourKites’ Sustainability Hub will help supply chain leaders with advanced emissions tracking and reporting capabilities

FourKites and MKI launch new partnership with fully localized platform and domestic OTR tracking

Adoption of FourKites’ leading supply chain visibility platform signals Pegasus Logistics’ long-term commitment to digitization and superior customer experience

Veteran business leader from SAP, Oracle and Ceridian will lead the company’s customer growth strategy as it drives digital supply chain transformation around the world

CHICAGO, March 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, leading supply chain visibility provider FourKites announced a partnership with Anytrek Corporation, a smart trailer solution provider, to integrate data from the company’s innovative GPS tracking devices into FourKites real-time transportation visibility platform.

FourKites Connect enables any carrier or broker to easily and securely connect to FourKites, while simultaneously improving tracking accuracy for shippers, brokers and other partners

CHICAGO, March 06, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Leading real-time supply chain visibility company FourKites today announced it will bring its network of end-to-end, real-time supply chain data to Spotos’ European customers. German-based Spotos offers a digital freight forwarding platform that gives shippers access to a wide network of carriers across Europe.

Supply chain stakeholders cite customer service, labor shortages and transportation costs as top concerns going into 2023

Real-time visibility helps leading LSP streamline operations and drive huge growth in ocean and OTR business, while providing customers with a world-class experience

CHICAGO, Jan. 30, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Leading real-time supply chain visibility company FourKites today announced a partnership with cargonerds to enhance the digital freight platform with its market-leading supply chain visibility data.

New integration with business intelligence tools provides customers with unprecedented access to trusted, real-time supply chain data to eliminate silos, maximize agility

The connected solution, which optimizes workforce management and task execution based on shipment arrival times, will be exhibited at NRF 2023, Booth #3403

Built In recognizes the company for the third straight year as FourKites continues to attract industry veterans to its leadership team

Recording nearly 50% YoY growth and connecting the supply chains of 50% of the Fortune 500, the world’s leading corporations continue to select FourKites for real-time, end-to-end supply chain visibility

Industry leaders collaborate to better serve customers through unmatched global, multimodal network coverage and market-leading ETAs

CHICAGO, Oct. 26, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Leading supply chain visibility company FourKites and Food Shippers of America (FSA), an industry non-profit association that brings together a community of supply chain, transportation and logistics professionals, today released the results of a survey of more than 115 industry leaders. Survey results shed light on the most pressing logistics challenges in the Food & Beverage (F&B) community, as well as the impact of ongoing economic, geopolitical and supply chain disruptions.

Earning its second patent in two years, FourKites continues to lead supply chain innovation with unprecedented insight into ocean shipment documentation, helping shippers reduce delays and minimize fees

Industry leaders earn FourKites’ annual Golden Kite Awards for demonstrating best practices across their end-to-end supply chain