# Eliminate D&D Costs

## Current Challenges

- Fragmented, siloed, incomplete data from booking creation through container empty return.
- Poor visibility to schedules, ERDs, Cut-Off Dates, and various holds.
- Low quality predictive insights such as ETAs and ETDs for key locations.
- Limited visibility to standard D&D rates; inability to upload and leverage custom contractual rates.
- Lack of effective exception management tools to stay on top of risk.
- Inflexible data integrations prevents data sharing with other applications/partners regardless of maturity.

## Negative Consequences

- Incomplete and low-quality shipment data lead to poor decisions.
- Missing port, terminal, and vessel schedule changes leads to container delays and higher fees.
- Unreliable ETAs and ETDs lead to poor exception management.
- Lack of accurate rates and free time increases D&D risk.
- Sub-par exception management results in process inefficiencies, increased frustration, and elevated risk.
- Inflexible integration forces reliance on emails/spreadsheets, impacting decision quality.

## Why Unity?

- Direct carrier connections and a vast partner network covering ocean and rail data.
- Associate shipments and related orders including order details.
- Find orders and shipments by SKU, batch numbers, or lot numbers.
- Frequent ETA updates for shipment deliveries at the sales order level based on incoterms.
- Mature exception management tools: alerts, notifications, and reports.
- Industry leading platform architecture supports two-way integrations and shared views with any system or partner, regardless of maturity.

## Positive Business Outcomes

- Stay on top of container and sales order status with high-quality data and ETAs.
- Improve origin and destination operational efficiency using timely port and vessel schedules, incl. ERDs, cut-off dates, and various holds.
- Manage exceptions using alerts, notifications, and scheduled reports.
- Improve data quality and increase collaboration between supply chain partners with flexible data integrations and shared views using Unity’s Data Versatility platform.

## Measuring Success (metrics that matter)

- **40%** Reduce Avg. Detention Cost per Container
- **25%** Improve D&D Management Process Efficiency
- **40%** Reduce Avg. Demurrage Cost per Container
- **15%** Reduce Container Turnaround Time
- **50%** Reduce Avg. Dwell Time
- **10%** Reduce Contractual Free Time Costs

High-quality connections to carrier, ports/terminal, rail, and partner data increases data quality (timeliness, accuracy, completeness, granularity).

## Example data points

- Booking, B/L, and container event data
- Predictive ETAs and ETDs for key locations
- Vessel routing and schedules
- Port/Terminal schedules including rail ERDs, marine terminal ERDs, and cut-off dates (North America Only)
- Various Customs Holds and Releases
- Available for Pickup Confirmations Market D&D rates and free times by carrier and port
- Rail station-by-station tracking and terminal ETAs (North America Only)

Flexible integration layer designed to accommodate varying levels of maturity. We support API, EDI, Email, Excel, CSV, etc.

## Example data points (IN)

- Contractual D&D Rates
- Free Time
- Order/Inventory Data
- Committed/Promised Dates

## Example data points (OUT)

- ETAs and ETDs
- D&D Event Milestone dates
- Actual Delivery Dates
- Actual Dwell Times
- D&D Fees

### Plan

- Leverage historical free time utilization data to improve contractual free time allocation.
- Access rich network of port and rail terminal dwell time data to improve container routing.
- Track containers dispatched empty but not yet gated-in full.
- Monitor the Earliest Return Date (ERD) and cut-off dates to avoid unplanned delays (North America export only).
- Flag containers incurring or at risk of incurring detention fees at Origin.
- Locate containers moving on rail incl. ETAs to the port of loading. (North America export only).
- Track containers gated-in full but not yet loaded on vessel.
- Monitor changes to vessel schedules to minimize unplanned dwell time.
- Flag containers incurring or at risk of incurring demurrage fees.
- Detect containers rolled off the vessel at the port of loading.
- Leverage predictive ETAs to avoid unplanned dwell times.
- Track containers discharged but not yet gated-out full.
- Detect containers on hold such as customs holds and carrier holds (North America import only)
- Identify containers available for pickup.
- Upload manage drayage appointments and status updates.
- Track containers gated-out full but not returned empty.
- Locate containers moving on rail incl. ETAs to the destination rail ramp (North America import only).
- Leverage timely delivery notification to ensure warehouses unload containers in timely manner.
- Flag containers incurring or at risk of incurring demurrage fees.
- Identify containers available for pickup.