The Challenge
Effective Freight Solutions (EFS) moves freight, and freight runs on data: loads, lanes, costs, and on-time performance. That data typically sits across operational systems and spreadsheets, which makes a clear view of the business slow to assemble and easy to get wrong. EFS needed its data integrated and turned into reporting that people could actually use to make decisions, rather than rebuilding the same spreadsheets every week.
What Evocate Delivered
In 2023, Evocate delivered a Power BI integration and reporting solution:
- Data source review: identified where the operational data lived and how to connect to it
- Integration: brought the relevant sources together into a consistent data model
- Power BI reporting: built dashboards and reports for the metrics that run the business
- Validation and handover: checked the figures with EFS and enabled the team to use and extend the reports
Outcomes
EFS has Power BI dashboards drawing on integrated data instead of manual spreadsheet work. Decision-makers can see the metrics that run the business in one place, refreshed rather than rebuilt by hand. Reporting that once took manual effort is now repeatable, and the numbers come from a single, consistent source.
Why This Matters
Logistics margins are thin and decisions are time-sensitive. Operators who can see performance clearly and quickly make better calls on pricing, routing, and service. EFS shows how Evocate’s Power BI and Power Platform capability turns operational data into a working decision tool: the kind of reporting backbone any logistics or operations-heavy business needs to run on facts instead of guesswork.
