Debug Your Datacenter Equipment Delays

Stop datacenter equipment delays before they happen

Your $44.5 billion datacenter expansion depends on equipment from limited qualified suppliers. When GPUs, specialized servers, and components arrive late, construction stalls and Azure capacity suffers. You need visibility into inbound materials before delays become crises.

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Datacenter Logistics Challenges Holding Back Your Expansion

Your specific challenges:

Limited qualified suppliers control their own freight – You only have a few qualified suppliers for GPUs, servers, and networking equipment, and they manage their own logistics. Any disruption impacts your ability to meet Azure demand, and you depend on them for updates.
Multiple freight forwarders require manual coordination – Tracking inbound equipment across DB Schenker and other global freight forwarders requires manual status requests across time zones.
Multi-modal complexity – Tracking inbound equipment across DB Schenker and other global freight forwarders requires manual status requests across time zones.
Equipment delays stall construction – When critical components arrive late, datacenter projects stall, impacting your $35.4B in construction commitments and Azure capacity targets.

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Multi-Forwarder Consolidation Status Automation Multi-Modal Tracking Predictive Alerts

Multi-Forwarder Consolidation

One Command Center Across All Your Freight Forwarders

Consolidate visibility across DB Schenker, Kuehne+Nagel, and every other freight forwarder managing your datacenter equipment into a single platform. No more logging into multiple portals or coordinating status updates across time zones—FourKites automatically pulls data from all forwarders and gives you one unified view of everything inbound to your datacenter construction sites.

Impact:

One dashboard replacing multiple freight forwarder portals
Eliminate manual coordination across DB Schenker and other LSPs
Real-time status across all inbound datacenter equipment
Know what’s arriving—and when—across your entire global network

Status Automation

Unsubscribe from Manual Status Updates

AI Agent automatically monitors shipments 24/7 and retrieves status updates from DB Schenker and other freight forwarders. No more check-in emails, portal logins, or human intervention.

Impact:

90% reduction in manual status check tasks across your global logistics teams
50% reduction in email volume in the first 8 months
2-3 hours saved per person daily
Automated updates without human intervention

Multi-Modal Tracking

Outlook: Consolidate All Transportation Modes

Bring together all inbound materials from air, ocean, rail, and truck into one platform. Know when components will arrive no matter which freight forwarder manages shipment or how it’s transported.

Impact:

Manage air, ocean, rail, and truck shipments all in one place
Automated updates across all freight forwarders and modes
Know when components will arrive regardless of transportation mode
Coordinate datacenter equipment from Asia, Europe, and domestic sources

Predictive Alerts

Patch Delays Before They Impact Operations

AI analyzes real-time data across your supplier network and 3M+ daily global shipments across 1,600 supply chains to predict delivery failures weeks before impact. Automated alerts on critical datacenter equipment delays give you time to act.

Impact:

5-6 weeks advance notice of supply disruptions
Prevent construction timeline slips on your $35.4B in commitments
Reduce expedited shipping costs from late-discovered delays
Right-size equipment inventory without excess safety stock

Access Granted: How We’ve Solved These Challenges for Technology Leaders

Arrow Electronics

Automating Supplier Coordination Across a Fragmented Network

The Challenge: Arrow Electronics, a $28B global electronics distributor, struggled with supplier coordination across a fragmented global network. With hundreds of suppliers managing their own logistics, Arrow’s teams spent hours manually coordinating shipments and entering data across multiple systems.

The Solution: FourKites auto-built shipment records from minimal supplier data and integrated seamlessly with Arrow’s Oracle TMS, eliminating manual coordination overhead.

The Results:

70% reduction in manual work on supplier coordination
5x faster supplier onboarding without requiring supplier portal usage
80% lower integration costs than custom-built solutions
Enhanced decision-making across supplier network

Why This Matters for Microsoft: Like Arrow, you have limited suppliers who control their own logistics. The same automation can eliminate your dependency on suppliers for updates.

Major Cloud Data Services Company

Conquering Datacenter Logistics Complexity

The Challenge: A leading cloud infrastructure provider faced critical challenges coordinating inbound datacenter equipment from limited qualified suppliers across multiple global freight forwarders. With billions in datacenter expansion commitments, any equipment delay threatened construction timelines and capacity targets. Their teams spent hours manually tracking shipments across different freight forwarder portals and time zones.

The Solution: FourKites consolidated visibility across all their freight forwarders—ocean, air, rail, and truck—into one platform. The AI-powered system automatically monitored shipments 24/7 and provided predictive alerts on potential delays weeks before impact.

The Results:

Unified visibility across all freight forwarders and transportation modes
90% reduction in manual tracking tasks across global logistics teams
5-6 weeks advance notice of supply disruptions affecting datacenter construction
2-3 hours saved per person daily eliminating check-in emails and portal logins
Prevented construction delays by proactively rerouting critical components

Why This Matters for Microsoft: Like this cloud provider, you’re managing limited qualified suppliers across multiple freight forwarders with billions in datacenter commitments at stake. The same multi-forwarder consolidation can transform your operations from reactive coordination to proactive orchestration.

Henkel

Eliminating Manual Tracking Burden

The Challenge: Henkel, a multinational industrial company, needed to eliminate the manual burden of tracking nearly 1 million annual shipments across their Oracle TMS and multiple freight forwarders. Customer service teams spent hours manually checking shipment status.

The Solution: FourKites integrated with Henkel’s Oracle TMS and automated shipment monitoring, eliminating manual tracking and providing status in minutes instead of hours.

The Results:

Eliminated manual tracking burden from customer service teams
Minutes instead of hours for shipment status
Substantial time and cost savings across logistics operations
Better freight provider accountability with automated performance data

Why This Matters for Microsoft: Your teams face the same manual coordination overhead. The same automation can save 2-3 hours per person daily across your global operations.