GIS for Import-Export Businesses

Location is a crucial factor for import-export businesses, making GIS software a vital business tool.

Whether you’re a global multinational or smaller operator interested in growing your business, eSpatial OnDemand GIS™ will help you to analyse your business data to:

• Understand the geography of your current business, and its impact.
• Optimise and streamline the logistics and supply chain.
• Discover opportunities to grow your business.
• Make more effective business decisions.

Understand customer demand

Understanding which products are in demand in different markets is key to your success.

Use eSpatial OnDemand GIS to upload retailer data and discover:

• The geographical spread of your current retail customers, and:
  • Which products or categories you already supply.
  • Products or categories they have indicated interest in.
• Whether there are geographical trends related to demand for certain products or categories.

Add prospective retailer data and discover:

• The location of prospective customers in relation to current customers.
• In which areas are reaching saturation – and where you require additional retailers.
• Whether you can offer current or prospective customers exclusivity for product lines or categories.

Optimise logistics & your supply chain

Timely, efficient movement of goods from manufacturer to retailer is critical. In an increasingly global market, even a short delay can create significant losses.

eSpatial OnDemand GIS helps you to plot and view the entire journey taken by each product – from manufacturer to retailer.

View the journey:

• Upload manufacturer and product data to establish a point of origin for each product.
• Add in retailer and product data to establish a destination point – or series of destination points – for each product.
• Connect the two points by uploading data related to the delivery of each product, including the actual route taken, scheduled stops, customs points, and preferred storage facilities.

With your current routes mapped out, directly compare them to alternatives:

• View all ports, railways, motorways and airports in a specific area, and examine whether alternative options will:
  • Reduce costs.
  • Reduce delivery time.
  • “Green” your business by reducing fuel consumption – and your carbon footprint.

Grow your business

Whether you want to build new relationships or augment existing ties, eSpatial OnDemand GIS helps you to examine and target geographic opportunities to grow your business.

Upload data on current manufacturers and retailers and examine the relationships that exist between them:

• Which retailers already carry certain manufacturers’ products?
  • Create a targeted sales and marketing campaign focused on related categories or products from the same manufacturers.
• Which routes between manufacturer and retailer are particularly cost-effective?
  • Create a targeted sales and marketing campaign focused on moving more products between these manufacturers and retailers.
• Which retailers are poorly served by your current manufacturers?
  • Search for manufacturers in areas where you have optimised the logistics and supply chain.
• Which manufacturers would you like to grow you business with?
  • Search for suitable retailers in selected areas, and create a targeted sales and marketing campaign aiming to introduce them to new products from the manufacturer.

Ready to find out more?

We’re here to help you to learn about how GIS software can most effectively deliver value to your retail business. Please contact us and we’ll get in touch!