The maritime ship supplies and delivery logistics are highly competitive trade due to vessel’s short order fulfilment cycle, narrow loading window at the port and unpredictable ship arrival schedule change. Ship suppliers have to battle with tough challenges from quick quotation processing to timely port delivery and fulfilment.

Ent-Vision Smart Data for Maritime innovates the Maritime Ship Supplies industry with Intelligent Process Automation (IPA) and Integrated Maritime Supplies Distribution (iMSD) platform, an end-to-end automated solution for Ship Suppliers from Request for Quotation (RFQ) to Sales Order processing and optimised delivery planning.

The solution automates manual data entry, liberates staff from labour-intensive routine tasks to higher value-added customer services. Optimised logistic delivery with maritime data interface improves visibility, brings down logistic cost and eases traffic congestion at port area, utilize-logistics resources and increases sales.

Smart Data for Maritime Solution Suite

Ent-Vision Smart Data for Maritime is supported by Ent-Vision Data Central Platform as the backbone to facilitate end-to-end data flow within the Maritime Ship Supplies Logistics from Sales Quotation process to port delivery.

Intelligent Process Automation

Ent-Vision Intelligent Process Automation (IPA) is a software that combines Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with Artificial Intelligence (AI). It is capable of handling high-volume unstructured data receiving from multiple sources, transforms to standardized format, automates repeatable human decision tasks, and accelerates productivities by making operations more efficient.

Intelligent Process Automation (IPA) Technology

The Ent-Vision IPA consists of several modules. Data Standardisation: standardises irregular data and integrates data from different sources automatically with proprietary algorithms and Machine Learning technology. Contents Extraction: Inputs are broken down to smart attribute level to increase dataset accuracy. NLP and ruled-based algorithm are applied to recognise patterns and characteristics of attributes. Matching & Recommendation: The ability to match data in various formats (both structured and unstructured), coupled with intelligent multi-level ranking criteria. Furthermore, it allows the user to analyse a vast amount of historical data, making predictions and recommendations from data insights.

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Automating Request for Quotation Process

Empowered by Ent-Vision Intelligent Process Automation (IPA), Ent-Vision Maritime Sales Automation offers an automated Request-for-Quotation (RFQ) solution for Ship Suppliers, from receiving RFQs, items extraction, products matching, intelligent product recommendation to generating and sending quotations to customers. The full automated process will significantly reduce response time to RFQs, increase sales conversion rate, improve staff productivities.

RFQ Automation System

Customers’ Request-for-Quotations (RFQ) received through email or third-party platforms are largely non-standardized and inconsistent. During RFQ automation process, RFQ contents are extracted automatically, items requested are compared with the internal product master and evaluated using a Multi-attribute matching algorithm. Products with the highest ranking and best match are recommended while inventory availabilities are checked. The quotation will then be generated automatically and send to the customer via email. Product inventory can be updated to backend ERP via API.  Predictive sales analysis and proactive quotations are made possible from historical purchase data insights. While generating sales orders, logistic resources are coordinated for cost-effectiveness and timely delivery.

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Collaborative Logistic Resources Sharing

Ent-Vision Integrated Maritime Supplies Distribution Platform (iMSD) is a collaborative distribution platform for Ship Suppliers to optimise logistics resources. The platform connects to Singapore Maritime Data Hub to improve visibility of vessels arrival schedule changes, facilitates port delivery logistic planning, enables logistic resources to be shared holistically within the chandlers’ community. The platform helps ship suppliers reduce truck idling and waiting time at port, lower logistic costs, improve ROIs.

Integrated Maritime Supplies Distribution Platform (iMSD)

Ent-Vision iMSD provides Tracking and Notification Data Services. Logistic Service Providers (LSPs) can subscribe Vessel ETA Tracking service, where notification of a particular vessel arrival time change will be sent to the delivery driver’s Mobile App. When LSP has picked up the goods, or upon delivery completion, Pickup or Delivery Notification will be sent to the customers. Ent-Vision iMSD Data Services greatly improve visibility of port-related activities, in particular, vessel arrival time change and loading berth change. The goods delivery status update facilitates logistic planning at the port, improves customer experience and satisfaction.

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Maritime Ship Supplies Data Integration

Ent-Vision Maritime Central Platform is a data foundation that leverage on data profile to facilitate data consolidation, integration and exchange between different systems. It supports interoperable modules, enables information flow and data exchange throughout the supply chain logistic workflow. The Maritime Central Platform allows different systems to communicate, resolves data silos, while Enterprises can continue using their existing ERP systems for operations.

Ent-Vision Maritime Data Central Platform

Ent-Vision Maritime Data Central Platform is a common data platform that allows sub-systems to “talk” and interface with one another to provide decision-makers with full visibility of data flow within the enterprise. Data received are first cleansed, standardised and transformed to a format that is compliant to target applications, enables end-to-end data connectivity. Standard data profile eases web API call, Single data definition facilitates data exchange, ensures data consistency and visibility within the Maritime Ship Supplies operations.

Ent-Vision Logistic Central Data Platform supports various interoperable modules to preserve capital investment, it facilitates interconnected systems while maintaining interdependent processes running, providing a truly seamless data interchange ecosystem.

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Benefits of Smart Data for Maritime

Automated order processing significantly eliminates human errors, reduces labour intensive tasks, increases data quality and improves end-to-end data flow.

Increase sales conversion rate with automated Request for Quotation generation and intelligent product matching and recommendation.

Improve resource utilization and increase productivity through clearer visibility of Ship Vessel Arrival time to optimize delivery route planning.

Empower Employees for higher-value tasks, increasing individual’s value, reducing costs and accelerating business growth.