Semiconductor Industry T Company: Excelling in Global Logistics Management to Shine on the World Stage

The semiconductor industry is one of the most critical technology sectors globally. The degree of automation and intelligence in international logistics operations determines the responsiveness of the supply chain. This article showcases a leading semiconductor foundry’s success story, demonstrating how it leveraged the Toplogis logistics cloud platform to achieve intelligent international logistics management, addressing challenges in the global supply chain.

To address shipping abnormalities or bottlenecks, import/export departments historically relied on manual statistics and email-based processes for logistics improvement plans and performance management. This approach incurs high time costs, risks human errors, and lacks the ability to monitor and respond to exceptions in real-time. Such traditional methods lead to prolonged problem-solving times, with clients seeking more efficient improvement plans and tangible results.

International logistics involves thousands of cost items. Previously, the processes of obtaining quotes, comparing prices, and allocating shipments were all handled manually, which was both time-consuming and error-prone. First, vendor selection was conducted without a comprehensive database of market intelligence. Then, each charge item in quotations was manually compared—a daunting task given the thousands of logistics fee items globally. Finally, allocations were made based on route risk considerations. Moreover, quarterly or annual cost analysis proved challenging, especially with numerous global suppliers, limiting the ability to identify the best vendors and affecting logistics operation quality.

The platform’s Global Event Manager uses a visual red-yellow-green alert system to assess event severity. Acting like a neural network for the supply chain, it automatically detects anomalies, triggers alerts, and initiates corrective plans. This reduces response time, ensures smooth transport processes, and minimizes disruptions.

The platform detects internal and external logistics anomalies automatically, creating improvement plans and scoring performance based on accuracy and timeliness. It eliminates manual statistics and email communication, enabling management to assess logistics service quality via a centralized platform for better strategic decision-making.

By digitalizing the comparison process and standardizing cost coding, the platform streamlines supplier selection and cost analysis. Features like conditional scoring and pricing rankings ensure transparency, accelerate decision-making, and enhance negotiation strategies with clear cost structures.

Power users identify the visual shipment monitoring feature as the most practical. The use of red-yellow-green indicators and bar charts provides a clear overview of global inbound and outbound anomalies.

This feature enables supply chain parties to communicate in real-time on a single platform, reducing errors and resolving issues quickly.

The Sourcing and e-Billing modules allow customizable cost coding, simplifying pre-quotation comparisons and enhancing post-cost analysis, enabling precise international logistics cost management.