FlowLogix Designer comes with an assortment of valuable features
he Boyd Companies operates three entities; Boyd Brothers Transportation, WTI Transport and Mid Seven Transportation. Each entity also operates
a logistics division. The Boyd Companies operates from Clayton, AL; Tuscaloosa AL; Birmingham, AL; and Des Moines, IA. Boyd Transportation and WTI Transport haul and broker mainly legal loads while Mid Seven hauls and brokers over dimensional loads.
“We realized the ROI quickly with FlowLogix Designer,” says Vickie Johnson, Director of Business Technology for Boyd Bros. Transportation. “There are so many capabilities within this tool that I haven’t even touched yet. Your options are almost limitless.”
FlowLogix Designer gives you flexibility
“You have all kinds of options when you create FlowLogix programs. You can set up a Rapid Alert, use a menu item, import a spreadsheet, make use of an API or third-party interface, apply the ‘magic button,’ and more. We love that flexibility.”
The modular aspect of FlowLogix Designer simplifies the work and saves time
“FlowLogix Designer has debugging, tracing, and logging functionality built in, and this has proved critical for us. You can also make incremental changes and the change history is recorded so that you can revert to earlier version at any time, if there is the need to do so.”
FlowLogix helps with missing data
“Some of our orders are spot-quoted and in those cases we need the user to enter the fuel surcharge. Our staff is pretty good about doing this, but of course there are times when it doesn’t get done. To handle that we developed a FlowLogix process that detects loads that are missing fuel surcharges and notifies the appropriate people to get those exceptions fixed. It was a quick and easy project that has huge benefits.”
FlowLogix helps us handle special circumstances
“We reaized th ROI quickly wih FowLogx
Dsiger.” – Vickie Johnson, Director of Business Technology for The Boyd Companies
“There are always some customers who require extra work. We have one customer who updates location appointment instructions every thirty days and we enter the new instructions as comments on the location. With the FlowLogix program we created, handling this is much less time-consuming. Every time we add a load, the program adds the current instructions to the comments. If a location is changed, the program will detect it, change the location, delete the old comments, find a
“The FlowLogix solutions you design can be modular, which means that you can change one piece of the program without needing to recreate the entire string of commands. You can also copy part of one design and paste it into another program that needs that same function. This saves time over and over again.”
new appointment instruction, and add the comment to the stop. This used to be a big headache that consumed a lot of time and attention, but with the FlowLogix program in place now, it’s not a problem any longer.”
We use FlowLogix to help with Sarbanes- Oxley compliance
“We are a publicly traded company, so SOX compliance is a huge issue. Some of the programs we’ve created help
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