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FourKites × Arrow Electronics

FourKites x Arrow Electronics, from 60-day-old data to real-time inbound control

Supplier compliance moved from 30-to-60-day-old data to near-real-time visibility

Stale retrospective reports to real-time intervention

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Why it works

The core before-state is blindness: Arrow could describe last quarter's problems but could not see or act on this week's, which makes Clarity the right primary tag. The story is honest about being mid-transformation and avoids overclaiming, which builds credibility. The mechanism is specific enough to follow: an AI agent reads existing supplier documents, extracts data, and creates shipment records, with named supporting workflows and a single north-star metric tracking progress.

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The case study explicitly names the north-star metric Arrow is tracking (order-to-shipment linkage) and explains the data foundation must be built before claiming a return. Framing an in-progress deployment around a single traceable metric, rather than premature ROI claims, is a replicable and trustworthy structural move.

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  • Vendor FourKites
  • Customer Arrow Electronics
  • Industry Industrial / Manufacturing
  • Trigger Supplier compliance judged on data 30 to 60 days old with no ability to intervene in current problems
  • Format Written narrative
  • Structure Challenge-Solution-Results
  • Medium Web page