The control tower dashboard is an alternative way to get insights from the shipments uploaded to your Portcast platform. In this guide we explain how best to extract value from this analytical dashboard, and explain its different components and how to filter the information displayed using container, carrier or voyage filters.

What is included in the Control Tower?

The Control Tower includes a varied set of dashboard components related to your uploads, shipments and routes:

1. Container upload stats & error stats
2. Vessels on journey
3. Containers insights
4. Most used routes

1. Container upload stats & error stats

You can use the Control Tower to better understand the shipments uploaded into your Org. We’ve included three different widgets for this:

• Container overview: Lists the total uploaded containers, successfully or containing errors

• Successfully uploaded containers aggregated by Status: Grouped chart indicating what the distribution of your Org’s containers is regarding its on-time status: Early, On-Time, Delayed or ETA unavailable. Also includes an average transit time (in days) metric for your Org’s containers.

  

  Example of a status-aggregated containers widget, part of the Control Tower dashboard

• Upload errors by category: a table view with errors found during uploads by error type. This can help you debug issues with container uploads; errors found can be of the following categories:

  • Duplicate container upload
  • Incorrect carrier code
  • Incorrect container format
  • Invalid payload in post request
  • Quota exceeded for Org
  • Other

2. Vessels on Journey

The vessels on journey component of the Control Tower lets you see, in a map display, the position of the vessels actively on a journey that contain containers uploaded to your Org:

Vessels are color coded by status: green for on-time voyages, yellow for early voyages and red for voyages where a delay has been calculated.

Hovering over the vessel will show information over the vessel’s on-time status, vessel identifier (IMO number) and how many containers in your Org are on-board of the vessel. If you click on the vessel, a vessel filter will automatically apply to the entire Control Tower dashboard (cf the section on filtering the Control Tower for more information).