FourKites is one of the world’s top real time supply chain providers which has announced its acquisition of European supply chain visibility provider NIC GmbH. The company is leading in the business for quite sometime now, also known as NIC-place. The combination of carrier networks of FourKites with its over the road, ocean and rail carriers and NIC-place, the duo is on the mission to create the largest multi-modal network of carriers in the Europe. This will allow them to serve global shipping services with the complete end-to-end global supply chain platform. The accession of the companies will also help to speed up the adoption of safe solutions for real time visibility, which is specially designed for carriers, at the same time it is also working to reduce the time for shippers with multimodal carrier networks which have complex structures.
FourKites is one of the world’s top real time supply chain providers which has announced its acquisition of European supply chain visibility provider NIC GmbH.
FourKites is world’s #1 suppluy chain visibility company in the world, which is providing services beyond just transportations into warehouses, yards, etc. the company is tracks over 2.5 million shipments on daily basis across, ocean, air, road, rail parcel and any other possible method, that reach 176 countries. The company is a platform with a merger of real time data and machines that help the companies to digitize their supply chain on end-to-end basis.
NIC-place is the leading supply chain in the business which provide specially designed solutions for carriers and logistics, transport business and other requirements. NIC-place is a reliable partner to provide a secure and flexible way to communicate and share the supply chain data with its customers. It also gives the customers assurance of safety and complete control of the data of their business and network. The company was founded in the year of 2016, and headquartered in Germany. Many of the companies like Unterer, Quehenberger, H.Essers and Kuehne+Nagel find NIC-place reliable in order to track millions of shipments.
Pete Jendras who is the founder and Managing Director of the company has said that they are excited to partner with FourKites as it the leading company in thr market in the business of real time supply chain provider. As a part of the FourKites company, NIC-place will keep its focus on solutions for carriers, while the company will leverage the leading shipper network of FourKites to speed up the innovation for itself. NIC-place companies have mentioned that the name and offices will be maintained under the same name in Germany, and will expand the name of the brand and operations from there only. The acquisition of the company will fasten the visibility of supply chain which is very much needed for the company’s growth across Europe.
NIC-place is a reliable partner to provide a secure and flexible way to communicate and share the supply chain data with its customers.
With many of these advanced capabilities of NIC-place, data privacy and security are on the top of the list. NIC-place’s Data Control Centre (DCC) is tentative to some of the tightest security for the data systems and privacy regulations in terms of GDPR. The laws that have been functioned allow the carriers to have absolute control over the data. It also provides the ease of integration with any of the real time visibility provider. The company’s DCC is the only portal which has interfaces to open real time visibility platforms that combines all data from different systems, making it a single hub for all.Â