project44, the leading supply chain visibility platform, announced that the company was selected as a 2023 winner of the Chicago Innovation Awards, recognizing its Movement by project44™ platform. Movement, which combines the project44 product suite on a single platform, creates an AI-driven digital infrastructure that delivers end-to-end visibility and enhanced capabilities across all transportation modes and geographies. From more than 300 nominations, project44 was one of just 20 innovators honored during Thursday’s awards ceremony that was attended by Chicago Mayor, Brandon Johnson, and Illinois Governor, J.B. Pritzker.
“project44 is a global company, but Chicago is where we were founded, so we’re especially grateful to receive this award that recognizes innovators in this growing tech hub,” said project44 Founder and CEO Jett McCandless. “Uniquely, Movement by project44 enables supply chain professionals to increase velocity, minimize costs and improve sustainability. The Movement platform and other project44 innovations are changing how businesses move products globally, and it all started in Chicago.”
In addition to the recognition by Chicago Innovation, project44 earned a second distinction: the Lessen Entrepreneurial Spirit Award. This award is an annual honor bestowed by event sponsor Lessen (formerly SMS Assist) to recognize companies with a unique approach that disrupts industries. The Movement platform is transforming the way leading brands manage supply chains, leveraging the world’s largest real-time transportation dataset and the industry’s most advanced data science.
Prior to Movement by project44, users had to toggle across multiple screens and systems to get information since global supply chains are complex and involve numerous geographies and modes. Movement provides a view that didn’t exist before, delivering real-time, end-to-end visibility. The platform is accessible across systems and roles, empowering shippers, logistics professionals and carriers with real-time data that enables workflow automation and enhances collaboration across the entire supply chain.
“With Movement in place, we can more effectively plan freight movement,” said Mr. Morihisa Nakamura, Manager, Supply Planning and Operation Group, Production Control Department at Roland. “Since Movement brings data from all modes and geographies onto a single platform, we expect its deployment to reduce our logistics workload by 30%, and also to enable us to communicate and provide feedback to freight forwarders on shipment routes in a timely manner based on project44’s real-time transportation visibility and analytics so that we can meet and improve the designated lead time. This partnership with project44 will make our supply chain more flexible, allowing our supply chain professionals to spend more time on strategic tasks.”