Four Parties Move One Shipment. Nobody Holds the Whole Line.
The partner knows manufacturing finished. The freight forwarder knows the truck moved. The sponsor’s ERP knows an order is open. No one holds the shipment end to end. Collabrix resolves the order, the shipping documents and the carrier messages into a single shipment record that all sides work from — scheduled before it moves, validated before it crosses a border, tracked while it travels, and carried through to goods received.
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One Shipment Record
Order, documents and carrier messages resolved into one.
Scheduled, Not Improvised
Planned in the pre-shipment view, with a schedule ID.
Condition, Not Just Position
Pallet, weight and sensor data carried on the record.
Validated Before Customs
Extracted fields checked against master data before goods move.
Through to Goods Received
Status syncs to shipped, then received, then the consignee GRN.
Shipment Facts Live in Four Places at Once.
The delivery address sits in the sponsor’s order. The quantity and the storage condition sit in the partner’s packing list. The movement sits in the freight forwarder’s messages. Each party holds a fragment, each fragment is true, and no system holds the shipment itself.
Why Existing Approaches Fall Short
No One Holds the Whole Line
Four organisations each hold part of the same shipment in a different system. Assembling the full picture means asking three of them and hoping the answers agree.
The Cold Chain Breaks Between Handoffs
Truck to air to truck, with no single owner across the handoffs. Manual temperature logs surface an excursion after the product is already lost.
Small Documentation Errors Stall Shipments
A wrong product code, a stale batch reference, a missing origin declaration — each one enough to hold goods at a border, and each one found only once they are already there.
What It Costs Sponsors, CMOs and CDMOs
Sponsors
Goods that have left the partner but not yet arrived are effectively invisible — and the receipt cannot post until someone reads the paperwork by hand.
CMOs and CDMOs
The same dispatch pack is reshaped for every sponsor and every forwarder, and every query about a shipment in transit comes back to the plant.
Both Sides
Logistics is planned after the manufacturing schedule is already locked, so the shipment inherits constraints rather than shaping them.
One Shipment Record, Matched Once, Shared by Everyone Who Touches It.
Collabrix resolves what each party holds into a single record for the shipment — so the line is unbroken from the schedule being raised to the goods being received.
All parties on one backbone
Sponsor order data, partner shipping documents and carrier messages are matched once into a single shipment record, rather than reconciled separately by each side afterwards.
Planned before it moves
Shipments are scheduled in the pre-shipment view and carry a schedule ID from that point on — so logistics is set alongside the manufacturing plan rather than improvised after it.
Condition tracked, not just position
Pallet, weight and sensor readings arrive on the shipment record as it travels, so a storage-condition problem is visible while the product can still be saved.
Checked before it reaches a border
Shipment and certificate documents are read and their fields extracted, then validated against master data — so a wrong code or a stale batch reference is caught before it can stall the goods.
Custody that holds its shape
Each handoff is written to a shared, tamper-evident record, so every party reads the same custody history — and no one has to take another’s word for where a shipment has been.
Carried through to goods received
Status syncs from scheduled to shipped to received, and the consignee goods receipt is generated from the record rather than re-keyed from the documents behind it.
The Shipment Has an Owner.
One line, end to end
A question about a shipment is answered from the record, instead of being put to three organisations and reconciled afterwards.
Excursions caught in time
Condition data arrives while the shipment is moving, so a problem is a decision to make rather than a loss to write off.
Fewer shipments held at the border
Documentation errors are found against master data before dispatch, not by a customs officer after the goods have arrived.
Receipt posts from the record
Goods received and the consignee GRN follow from the shipment itself, so stock exists in the system when it arrives, not when someone finishes typing.
How Logistics Collaboration Works.
One shipment, from the schedule being raised to the goods receipt being generated — with every party writing to the same record as it goes.
The shipment is scheduled
The sponsor schedules the shipment in the pre-shipment view and a schedule ID is generated. From that point the shipment exists as a record both sides can see, before anything has moved.
Pre-shipment documents are read and checked
The partner’s shipping and certificate documents are ingested and their fields extracted, then validated against master data — so errors that would stall the shipment surface before dispatch rather than at a border.
Status syncs from scheduled to shipped
The shipment notice confirms the goods have moved, and carrier messages, pallet and weight detail and sensor readings land against the same record as the shipment travels.
Post-shipment documents complete the picture
Delivery documentation is ingested and extracted into the post-shipment view, held against the schedule it belongs to rather than against an inbox.
Goods received, and the receipt generated
Status syncs from shipped to goods received, and the consignee goods receipt is generated from the record — closing the shipment and handing the stock to Inventory Collaboration.
Cell and Gene Therapy, Where a Shipment Cannot Be Repeated.
The capability is the same one every shipment uses — a single record, custody written as it happens, condition tracked in transit. What changes is the cost of getting it wrong.
One Batch, One Patient
The shipment is the product
A patient-specific therapy cannot be remade from stock. A single mislabelled shipment is an irreversible loss, not a delay.
Custody nobody has to vouch for
Every handoff is written to the shared record as it happens, so the chain reads the same to all sides without anyone reconstructing it afterwards.
What That Changes in Practice
Logistics planned with the schedule
Because the shipment is raised as a record up front, the logistics constraint is visible while the manufacturing schedule is still being set, not after it is locked.
Condition visible across every handoff
Multi-modal legs stop being blind spots: the same record carries the readings through each transfer, so no leg is somebody else’s responsibility.
Where Logistics Collaboration Happens.
One dashboard, read from both sides — the partner working the dispatch and the sponsor working the receipt. Pre-shipment scheduling and documents, the shipment messages as they arrive, status through scheduled, shipped and received, and the post-shipment view that closes it out.
Standardized ingestion
Each incoming dataset is pre-processed into a standard message format, whatever system it came from.
Standardized outbound messaging
Outbound data leaves as a standard message, on defined triggers, to the systems that consume it.
Broad system integration
Data is drawn from ERP, MES, QMS and LIMS across the sponsor and partner estate.
Role-based governance
What a user can see, and what they can act on, are both controlled by role.
Related Solutions
Logistics Collaboration picks up after the purchase order and ends at goods received. The neighbouring solutions cover the order that precedes it, the batch inside it, and the stock position it creates.
Procurement Collaboration
Challenge
Procurement and changes handled over email cause misalignment.
Outcome
Partners stay in sync and procurement moves faster.
Manufacturing Collaboration
Challenge
Sponsors lack timely visibility into production at partner sites.
Outcome
Issues surface early, improving coordination and reducing delays.
Inventory Collaboration
Challenge
Disconnected inventory data drives stockouts and excess.
Outcome
Better coordination and less manual reconciliation.
