Everysens, a Lille-based company that publishes several supply chain visibility solutions, has announced the signing of a partnership with Total, the French energy group. The aim of this international contract is to deploy a Transport Management System (TMS) software dedicated to the railway market. The platform will have the particularity of exploiting artificial intelligence to offer real-time information sharing. Another tool, developed by Everysens, will predict technical hazards in order to avoid them.

A partnership between Everysens and Total for rail logistics

Everysens was created in 2015, within the Lille incubator Euratechnologies. The company specializes in logistics visibility and is known for its collaborative Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that provides real-time visibility of freight transport and predictive planning of an organization’s entire operations.

Total transports millions of tonne-kilometres of goods to its customers and storage depots every year. In order to better manage these flows, the company wants to adopt a strategy of digitizing its transport planning processes.

With this in mind, the two companies have signed an international contract sealing their collaboration. Youness Lemrabet, CEO of Everysens, talks about this partnership as well as the project that will be implemented:

“This first deployment with Total in Germany is a strong indication of the level of industrialization of our solution. Being part of a project on this scale also confirms our unique value proposition in the petrochemical market with software that meets the challenges of tomorrow’s rail transport.”

Everysens’ TMS Rail leverages artificial intelligence for the supply chain

As part of this partnership, Everysens offers a TMS software dedicated to the rail market. This tool exploits AI in order to animate in a collaborative way, the entire transport chain thanks to the sharing of information in real time. In parallel, a digital transport assistant named Ralf will also be proposed. Also using AI, it allows operational teams to anticipate potential problems rather than having to deal with them after they have occurred.

Youri Trinh, Supply Sales and Optimization Director at Total in Germany, refers to the solution offered by Everysens for its rail logistics:

“With the Everysens solution, we are digitizing a complex process to plan our product shipments by rail. This simplifies the collaboration between many stakeholders, internally with our production site, our warehouses and externally with our multiple partner rail companies and of course with our customers. This will enable us to plan, execute and monitor our logistics operations more efficiently, so that they can be better optimised. Ultimately, we want to better satisfy our customers while optimizing our logistics costs.”

With this TMS and Ralf’s digital assistant, the aim is to respond to one of the problems of rail transport: the sector needs to offer near-perfect synchronisation between several players and different IT tools in order to centralise all the data needed to plan operations. This process is often manual, even oral, which is a significant waste of time. The automation of this process

The partnership will begin in Germany, one of the French multinational’s major rail logistics hubs in Europe. Later, the firm hopes to extend this partnership to the rest of the European continent, once the business gains have been confirmed.

Translated from Total collabore avec Everysens afin d’exploiter son logiciel dédié à la logistique ferroviaire