- Forecast demand up to 3 months ahead for shipping lines and airlines
- Flag unusual behaviour in booking patterns and customer profiles
- Build your supply chain scenarios by customizing demand forecasts
- Receive coverage of major trade lanes globally
Optimize asset utilization with dynamic Demand Forecasting
Current pricing processes are based on static data, which leads to to suboptimal revenue levels
By using our platform, you possess a real-time view of your booking patterns, customer profiles, external economic trends and seasonalities to make data-driven decisions
Move from manual forecasting and demand management on excel sheets to dynamic demand forecasts based on changes to external indicators in real-time
Achieve dynamic pricing, higher capacity utilization and efficient container repositioning with accurate demand forecasting done on a granular level
Proven with leading shipping lines and air cargo operators
Why Customers Like Us
Forecasting at every level
Demand is forecasted down to the port, airport and product level. By assessing a multitude of external factors, you can make proactive changes to maintain a lean supply chain
Data-driven demand planning
Plan ahead and maximize capacity utilisation with accurate data at your disposal. We forecast millions of time series on a weekly basis so that you can focus on making an impact
Deep domain knowledge
We created the platform in collaboration with the largest logistics asset owners in the world. Want to evaluate Golden week’s impact on demand or 11-11 sales surge patterns? Use Portcast demand forecast platform to automatically factor in thousands of logistics specific patterns
We take platform security very seriously
We created the whole platform with security in mind and follow best practices. On top of that, we are ISO27001 certified and we perform third party penetration tests annually.
Collaborate and build scenarios
Easily collaborate with your team to create scenarios on how pricing and capacity changes impact the demand forecast. We provide a full version control system so that you can keep track of all different scenarios and consolidate different scenarios
Case Study
Cargo Demand Forecasting for a Global Shipping Line
Client: Global shipping line
The Challenge: Improve capacity utilization and price effectively
Solution: Dynamic demand forecasting
0.5% – 3% Revenue Increase
With access to information such as load factors, capacity shortfall and booking trends, the client was able to make better pricing and capacity decisions
>100,000 Hours Saved p.a.
By moving away from spreadsheets to the platform, efficiency improved dramatically. Updates to demand predictions and data are found in one place
Better Frequency and Granularity of Predictions
Demand predictions are made on every level- region, country, port, service and product. Daily (air cargo) and weekly (ocean cargo) forecasts are one click away
Improved Customer Service and Sustainability
Using our predictive software led to better yield management and load factors. In addition, the client was able to carry out sustainable asset repositioning
Our Process
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