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Opendock Overview

What is Opendock?

Opendock is a digital dock scheduling solution for warehouses and facilities that delivers full visibility into a warehouse’s daily/weekly/monthly schedule, including which carrier is coming in, when they are coming in, and the load type they have. Warehouses are able to digitally publish their schedules online so carriers can book their own appointments. Users are also able to track in/out times for each truck/appointment, and this data is automatically calculated and logged into a carrier scorecard. From the appointment setting features, Opendock can also calculate the percentages for on-time, late, cancel, no-show, and reschedule in addition to average cancel lead time metrics. Opendock is SOC2 Type II compliant.

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Product Description

Opendock allows carriers, brokers, and dispatchers to book, update and cancel dock appointments with warehouses. Opendock works with AppointmentPlus and other dock scheduling software to allow online booking for your warehouse.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Opendock delivers real-time schedule visibility, enabling warehouses to decrease dwell times and detention fees through more efficient planning. Users are also able to cut down on labor costs with more accurate insights into the daily/weekly schedules, avoiding unnecessary overtime.

With Opendock’s reporting capabilities, warehouses can benchmark their own facility network along with their carrier network. Insights into average dwell times at facilities can help identify areas of improvement, and appointment volume metrics will allow users to further increase operational efficiency by allocating labor more strategically across all facilities. When it comes to carrier benchmarking, users can monitor carrier performance in real-time to strengthen their negotiating power, and provide leverage when disputing detention claims.


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Loadsmart
Year Founded
2014
HQ Location
Chicago, Illinois
Twitter
@LoadSmartUS
1,351 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
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472 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

Loadsmart revolutionizes the logistics landscape by combining cutting-edge technology with high-level transportation services to optimize freight spend, increase efficiency, and enhance service quality. Whether it be through managed transportation services, new generation TMS, dock scheduling software, truck management solutions, dynamic freight brokerage, or tailor-made optimization solutions, we empower shippers, carriers, and warehouses to move more with less. An independent auditor has confirmed Loadsmart as a SOC
Type II compliant company.


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Colin C.
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Colin C.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"The program is very helpful, and it keeps all the shipments organized for me."
It's great to know when the product will be delivered, and it helps to plan out the week. This way I can figure out if product will last until new...
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Oscar P.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Great tool and user friendly"
The whole platform streamlined our logistic service, now it is way more organized and we have complete traceability of everything we move in or out...
Alex (Abbos) A.
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Alex (Abbos) A.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"User friendly platform"
Simplicity of the platform. Any user with even lowest computer management skills may understand it.
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Opendock Demo - Grid View
The Grid View is the main operational page of the system. Here, you can visualize the appointments for the day, week, or month. It is highly customizable in terms of fields displayed and offers drag and drop functionalities to reschedule and/or change appointments docks.
Opendock Demo - My Carrier Contacts
Within the contacts page you can manage your favorite carriers so it's easier to schedule with them. Favorites can belong to one or multiple warehouses within the Organization.
Opendock Demo - Unplanned Arrivals
Capture arrivals without an appointment and link them to specific appointments for tracking or to reject.
Opendock Demo - Scheduling Portal Warehouse Search
Within the Scheduling Portal, carriers schedule the appointments by themselves, searching for warehouses by location name, address, or organization.
Opendock Demo - Scheduling Portal Warehouse Details
Carriers can visualize instructions, get contact information, see PPE requirements, amenities, operation hours and a yard map of the warehouse before scheduling.
Opendock Demo - PowerBI Insights
Warehouse and Carrier Performance reports to analyze operational numbers and improve throughput.
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What do you like best about Opendock?

Every morning, the first 2 things I open are my e-mail and opendock. It is such a big part of how we operate and what we use every day. We love being able to schedule and track our carriers daily for on time, lates, damages and being able to add our own unique tags. We also love have the metrics available to look back and see what carriers are doing well, who needs to do better and who we should think about letting go. We have had relatively few complaints about using opendock, and once getting past the extremely small learning curve, the ease of use for both us and the carriers has ben obvious.

It was extremely easy to set up, I actually had 90% of it set up before my phone call with the set up team and it was only the finer points that I had not yet realized were available. We have only had to contact customer support once and quickly realized it was our own mistake that caused us a minor problem, but they were quick and easy to get in touch with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Opendock?

There isn't much I would change at this point. Possibly the abilty to hide canceled appointments without completely deleting them, but not having them still visible with the active schedule is about my only input. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Opendock solving and how is that benefiting you?

Previously, we ran FCFS, but now being able to schedule out our day we are more productive both in loading/unloading trucks and our responsibilities in the warehouse and production floor. Not having 10 trucks lined up for 6 hours as we try to take the next one in line as they arrived has greatly improved stress and overall planning for myself and my team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Opendock?

The number of features is wonderful. Moving/rescheduling appointments is so easy and we love that when there is a NO SHOW it will send an email to the carrier right away. This feature is super helpful.We don't have to personally send emails or make phone calls. Opendock really has helped us a lot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Opendock?

Nothing to dislike for us. We all love how simple Opendock is to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Opendock solving and how is that benefiting you?

The ability to allow carriers to schedule their own appointments has helped us tremendously. Before we were having to make phones calls send emails to get loads scheduled. This has given us the ability to focus on other things other than scheduling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amy M.
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What do you like best about Opendock?

Opendock is very user friendly. The grid view is easy on the eyes. It is easy for vendors and shippers to add their appointments. It is also easy for them to edit their delivery appointments or add notes. We had no problem getting vendors and shippers to jump on board with us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Opendock?

some users were frustrated when their slot was filled but they were coming anyway and had no choice, like coming across multiple states.. what to do ?

we told them just to email us but pick the closest availalbe slot anyway Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Opendock solving and how is that benefiting you?

not knowing what day and what time vendors are coming to bring product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Opendock?

The ease of using it. It is really easy to locate the appointments that i need to find. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Opendock?

With the recent update you can no longer get all your appointments one one screen. You only get 30 now and have to go to next page. Also that you cannot click on the appointment and pull it up. you have to go to the eye to pull the appointment up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Opendock solving and how is that benefiting you?

All our customers make appointments on opendock and that makes my job alot easier. It used to be a problem setting appointment and having non-appointed trucks, with opendock the carriers make their own appointments so there is no longer problems making aoointments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Opendock?

Easy to use platform as a spectator role. Upgrade has made it easier to view appointments and visualize scheduling by docks and locations, especially in grid view. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Opendock?

Overall as a spectator there are not a lot of things I dislike, it's overall easy to use and navigate. I think the option to search for POs in grid view would be nice instead of just list view as I am usually in grid view

A waitlist of sorts for carriers would be nice as I get a lot of emails when appointments are backed up or there are not options for their specific day Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Opendock solving and how is that benefiting you?

Supports appointment scheduling with our third party warehouse

easy platform that users from both companies can navigate Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

KV
Material Coordinator
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Opendock?

I love how organized and color coordinated the calendar is, makes it easy to read and follow. I also love how flexible the features are and how we can make edits to existing appointments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Opendock?

I wish there was a cross-dock functionality where businesses with mulitple warehouses can change warehouses as an option when carriers setup appointments at the wrong facility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Opendock solving and how is that benefiting you?

Having drivers show up whenever they had pleased - this caused a lot of downtime and inventory issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Opendock?

visibility of scheduleing and the analytics off the back end to make use of the data created. We went from operating blindly to having full visability of our docks nation wide. In addition we use the data from the system to help build carrier score carding for future business discutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Opendock?

There are not many downsides, it solved our scheduling needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Opendock solving and how is that benefiting you?

It has solved the communication issue between the loading dock crew and the carrier . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mary O.
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What do you like best about Opendock?

I love how easy it is to use Opendock on a daily basis to track all of our incoming shipments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Opendock?

I wish we could add in features like USPS and Fedex ground. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Opendock solving and how is that benefiting you?

How many shipments arrive at once so it is allowing the teams to work more consistently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Opendock?

The ability to clone shipments saving time when you have mutliple deliveries coming from the same vendor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Opendock?

We are new to using the new version so have not come across anything yet we can advise on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Opendock solving and how is that benefiting you?

Again we are new users so haven't found any problems yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Response from Colissa Pollard of Opendock

Thank you for the amazing review, Melinda!

You can now favorite your carrier contact directly from the appointment. This was a great idea to add the "Favorite" button on the Appointment Details modal.

We sincerely appreciate your feedback!

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