Network Visibility for Clayton Homes Suppliers

Improve customer experience through collaboration and real-time visibility.

Clayton Homes & You: Winning together with shared visibility from FourKites

With the largest network of logistics tracking data and proprietary machine learning technology, FourKites’ real-time visibility platform gives companies the power to maximize efficiency, avoid risk and delight customers with improved transportation operations.

As a valued supplier of Clayton Homes, connecting to FourKites is easy and it enables you to reap the benefits of the industry’s most advanced real-time visibility platform.

Contact [email protected] to learn more.

What You’ll Get from Sharing Visibility

When you connect to FourKites and share a load through Network Visibility, you gain access to the platform’s valuable tools for tracking and managing your shared shipments.

Increase Customer Satisfaction

Improve on-time delivery performance and allow customers to plan ahead with automated notifications and with prescriptive recommendations

Lower Operating Costs

Reduce dwell time and detention charges origin and destination

Improve Efficiency

Eliminate manual track-and-trace processes and allow staff to focus on managing by exception or other value-add tasks

Why does Clayton Homes want shared visibility from its suppliers?

In addition to the benefits listed above that all shippers gain with FourKites, tracking inbound loads will provide additional value across many areas of Clayton Homes business, including:

Warehousing & Distribution: Reduce labor costs, maximize dock utilization and plan appointment times using accurate predictive ETAs
Procurement: Improve forecast accuracy, reduce stock availability issues, gain transparency in sourcing, ensure network is optimized
Logistics: Increase user efficiencies with automated notifications and alerts, identify backhaul and carrier re-load opportunities

What’s Involved in Getting Connected?

Clayton Homes and FourKites will work with you on a visibility plan. Depending on how your logistics network is operating, FourKites offers a flexible solution to capture the shipments as well as tracking of the carriers. Options include:

Connect your TMS to FourKites through an API or CSV connection
Have a real time visibility provider already? Connect your provider to FourKites through an API Connection
Manual load entry option is available for shippers with small load volumes or limited technical capabilities.
Most carriers are typically in the FourKites network of carriers, if they are not, the FourKites team will onboard the carrier to connect to the ELD/GPS or utilize mobile app tracking.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the timeline for this project?
Clayton Homes is looking to begin onboarding activities immediately to support a complete program launch in Q2 of 2022.

Is my data safe? How can I control what is shared?
As a SOC-2 audited company, FourKites takes data privacy seriously. Suppliers can choose which delivery locations they share with Clayton Homes, as well as applying data masks to elements that the supplier may want to keep private, including carrier name.

Will I have access to the FourKites platform to see the loads that are tracking?
Yes, each supplier will be given access to the FourKites platform with full functionality to track the loads delivering to Clayton Homes locations.

How do I connect to FourKites to provide this visibility?
FourKites has a number of flexible options to allow load creation, ranging from a daily spreadsheet email upload to an API connection.

Get Started Today

As a valued supplier of a retailer in our network, connecting to FourKites and sharing visibility is easy and it enables you to reap the benefits of the industry’s most advanced real-time visibility platform.

Contact [email protected] to learn more

VISIBILITY EVERYWHERE

FOR EVERY MODE

FOR YOUR CHALLENGES

FOR YOUR INDUSTRY

FOR YOUR NEEDS