Nominee Name: CityLIGHTS Award: FourKites
Award category:CityLIGHTS - for companies with $25MM+ in revenue
About the nominee:FourKites is the fastest-growing predictive supply chain visibility platform, with the largest and most intelligent network of supply chain partners and data providers in the industry. In addition to tracking real-time freight and providing the industry's most accurate predictive ETAs, the platform helps companies identify trends in their supply chains’ performance over time in order to reduce costs, improve service and create more efficient, transparent, and sustainable operations. Through data science breakthroughs, machine learning, and the world's largest pool of logistics data, FourKites tracks shipments across all modes of transportation in 176+ countries, and extends visibility beyond transportation into yards, warehouses, stores, and beyond.
With a network that now includes more than 600 of the world's top shippers and their broker and carrier partners — including 18 of the top-20 food and beverage companies and nine of the top-10 CPG companies — and tracking over 2 million loads and over $100 billion in freight in the platform every day, FourKites is leading the evolution of traditional supply chain into a modern connected ecosystem, all built on a foundation of real-time data.
Why they should win:FourKites has built the largest, most intelligent network of supply chain partners that provides real-time visibility and the most accurate data to help companies improve on-time delivery and optimize operations.