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Fujitsu Adds Support for Mission-Critical Tasks and Dispatch to its Logifit Series of Revolutionary Logistics Solutions

Offers an integrated approach to understanding management income and expenditures, and streamlines delivery operations

Fujitsu Limited

Tokyo, January 27, 2016

Fujitsu today announced the addition of two products to its FUJITSU Logistics Solution Logifit series, which is revolutionizing logistics operations: Logifit TM-Core, a mission-critical tasks solution, and Logifit TM-Dispatch, a dispatch-support solution. Sales of these two products begin in Japan today.

Logifit TM-Core, provided for transportation and delivery companies, is a mission-critical task solution that can batch together tasks in transportation and delivery, such as taking orders, dispatch control, sales, billing and payments management, and management income and expenditures. In addition to supporting a variety of sales methods depending on the type of delivery, such as route deliveries, multiple loading and unloading deliveries, or medium-to-long distance shipping, it also connects with Fujitsu's other systems, such as warehouse and operations management. This enables integrated transportation-related income and expenses management to make it possible to easily analyze management income and expenses based on the actual performance of day-to-day tasks.

Logifit TM-Dispatch, provided for both transportation and delivery companies and companies that perform tasks including deliveries, is a dispatch-support solution that can plan optimal delivery routes and loading, or the use of a consignment delivery service. It can automatically create delivery plans for medium- to long-distance delivery tasks and loading and unloading during deliveries, as well as calculate the corresponding expenses for each delivery vehicle route for different delivery companies from each area's fare table, and then select the appropriate consignment delivery service and route. These enable efficiencies and cost reductions in delivery tasks.

In recent years, as the demand for improved transportation and delivery quality has been growing, there has been an increasing need for the deployment of systems to reduce burden and increase efficiency, due to worsening shortages of drivers and operations managers.

Fujitsu is now strengthening logistics management as a whole by adding these two products, Logifit TM-Core and Logifit TM-Dispatch, to its Logifit series of logistics solutions.

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Features of Logifit TM-Core

Figure 2: Summary of the Logifit TM-Core systemFigure 2: Summary of the Logifit TM-Core system
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1. Supports multiple delivery types, reduces operational burden of sales management

This product features sales management functions that support a variety of different transportation and shipping types, such as route deliveries where the fees are calculated based on the number of trucks used, multiple loading and unloading deliveries from multiple cargo owners, or medium- to long-distance deliveries consigned to a dedicated transportation and delivery company. This enables billing and payments for each type just by selecting the transportation type in the system, reducing workload.

2. Enables users to grasp income and expenditures on a per customer and per site basis

By linking it with Fujitsu's logistics center management system Logifit WM, this product enables integrated management of not only transportation and delivery, but also combined management of billing and payments for warehouse use, as well as billing information for handling(1), storage, and freight. This contributes to improving management by allowing users to get a handle on expenses per customer and per site, such as, for example, when a customer places an order, users can confirm the approximate total amount of warehouse operations expenses, storage expenses, and truck transportation expenses.

3. Enables prompt account settlement through links with operation management, financial and accounting, and HR and payroll systems

This product features a standard interface with Logifit TM-NexTR, which analyzes operating vehicles and supports operations tasks, as well as with the FUJITSU Enterprise Application GLOVIA series of systems for finance, accounting, human resources, and payroll. By linking it with accurate labor information, such as actual operating time, and accurate journal information, such as billing, payments and liabilities, this product offers prompt account settlement.

Features of Logifit TM-Dispatch

Figure 3: Summary of the Logifit TM-Dispatch systemFigure 3: Summary of the Logifit TM-Dispatch system
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1. Improved efficiency in dispatch tasks through a variety of automatic dispatch functions

Fujitsu has improved this function's ability to automatically plan the optimal delivery routes and load amounts, with respect to the daily changes in vehicles and packages, with support for medium- to long-distance transport as well as loading and unloading during deliveries. Furthermore, it lets users create faster and more flexible dispatch plans with the ability, when reviewing the automatically calculated dispatch plan, to manually modify items like trucks and departure times with mouse-based drag and drop, with the resulting changes in areas such as load percentage and predicted arrival times reflected immediately. In addition, because multiple dispatchers can share their dispatch status, trucks in areas with a little extra room can be efficiently used, offering improvements in loading efficiency.

2. Addresses unprofitable routes and offers selection of consigned delivery companies

This product calculates the approximate income and expenditure per vehicle from each delivery company's various rate tables in each delivery area, enabling users to plan profit-conscious routes and select consignment delivery companies. This makes it possible for users to grasp the profitability per vehicle, and connect it with visualizations of unprofitable routes and review consignment delivery companies.

3. Enables budget control through links with operations management systems

This product features a standard interface with the Logifit TM-NexTR operations management system, through which, by comparing dispatch plan data with the actual state of operational progress, users can immediately respond to customer inquiries and schedule changes, and review future planning improvements.

Pricing and Availability

Pricing and Availability
Product Name Price (Tax Excl.) Availability Date
FUJITSU Logistics Solution
Logifit TM-Core
JPY 28 million (full model)
JPY 14 million (standard model)
JPY 7 million (minimum model)
From mid-February
FUJITSU Logistics Solution
Logifit TM-Dispatch
From JPY 2.2 million From mid-February

Sales Target

Sales of 60 copies to 40 companies for Logifit TM-Core and 200 copies to 60 companies for Logifit TM-Dispatch by the first half of fiscal 2018 (Fujitsu's fiscal year ends at the end of March).


  • [1] Handling

    Work related to moving packages into and out of storage in a warehouse or other facility.

About Fujitsu

Fujitsu is the leading Japanese information and communication technology (ICT) company, offering a full range of technology products, solutions, and services. Approximately 159,000 Fujitsu people support customers in more than 100 countries. We use our experience and the power of ICT to shape the future of society with our customers. Fujitsu Limited (TSE: 6702) reported consolidated revenues of 4.8 trillion yen (US$40 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2015. For more information, please see http://www.fujitsu.com.

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Date: 27 January, 2016
City: Tokyo
Company: Fujitsu Limited