How to Combine Analytics & Shipping Tech for End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility 

This article was contributed by our leading supply chain technology partners at Open Sky Group

In the world of modern logistics, every second and every shipment matters. Customer expectations for fast, accurate, and transparent deliveries have never been higher. Meanwhile, enterprises are juggling complex networks of carriers, warehouses, and partners, all while trying to manage escalating costs and razor-thin margins.

Sound familiar? You’re not alone. Many enterprise shippers and 3PLs find themselves asking:

• How can we see what’s really happening across our supply chain in real time?
• How do we adjust our shipping strategy before small issues become expensive disruptions?
• And how do we keep every carrier and rule in sync—especially during peak season?

This is exactly where the powerful combination of Open Sky Group’s Kaleidoscope and ProShip’s enterprise-grade multi-carrier shipping software comes into play. Together, these two solutions create a unified, data-driven approach that gives you full control from insight to execution.

The Challenge: Fragmented Visibility and Rising Pressure

Let’s start with a familiar scenario.

A major retailer is heading into peak season. Orders are skyrocketing, but so are carrier surcharges, shipping exceptions, and service-level delays. The warehouse team is pushing to meet daily fulfillment targets, while the transportation team scrambles to reroute shipments when a carrier network becomes overloaded.

The problem? Data is scattered across multiple systems including shipping software, WMS, and ERP, and by the time insights reach decision-makers, it’s too late to act.

That lack of real-time visibility and seamless execution leads to missed SLAs, unhappy customers, and inflated costs.

What if you could see problems as they emerge and automatically act on them, before they impact your customer promise?

The Solution: Real-Time Insight + Intelligent Execution

Step 1: See Clearly with Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope by Open Sky Group is a supply chain execution analytics platform designed to shine light on your warehouse and shipping operations. It connects the dots across systems like warehouse management (WMS), transportation management (TMS), labor management (LMS), and enterprise resource planning (ERP) to give you a true, real-time picture of performance.

Its four supply chain-focused modules: Enhanced Client Billing, Supply Chain Portal, Supply Chain Chat, and Supply Chain Insight, equip operations teams with powerful visibility tools. Whether you’re a 3PL needing transparent client billing, a shipper tracking KPIs, or an operations manager monitoring anomalies, Kaleidoscope delivers actionable intelligence through intuitive dashboards, alerts, and trend tracking.

The result? You can pinpoint inefficiencies, understand your true cost-to-serve, and respond faster to what’s happening on the floor or in transit.

Step 2: Act Intelligently with ProShip

Of course, visibility is only half of the story. You also need the power to act on what you see.

That’s where ProShip, the industry’s leading enterprise multi-carrier shipping solution, takes over. Designed for high-volume, high-complexity shippers, ProShip automates and optimizes your parcel operations with unmatched speed, flexibility, and compliance.

With advanced capabilities like Time-in-Transit optimization and Advanced Date Shopping (ADS), ProShip helps shippers find the most cost-effective and efficient delivery options for every parcel, while meeting delivery promises. Custom business rules provide full control over automating complex decisions and eliminate costly, manual errors, while ProShip’s versionless architecture means no more forced upgrades, minimal downtime, and real-time access to the latest product enhancements. These features help ProShip ensure smoother operations, lower costs, and the best-fit carrier for each shipment, no matter how unpredictable the environment gets.

It’s fast, it’s scalable, and it’s built to perform even during your busiest weeks.

Integration in Action: From Detection to Execution

Here’s where the real magic happens: when Kaleidoscope and ProShip work together.

Picture this:
Kaleidoscope detects a sudden spike in outbound volume for a key product line and alerts you that your primary carrier’s lane performance is trending downward.

Instantly, ProShip’s platform applies a predefined business rule to divert affected shipments to an alternate carrier with better delivery reliability without manual intervention.

Kaleidoscope detects the issue, ProShip executes the fix.

The cause-and-effect flow creates a seamless bridge between analytics and action. You’re not just seeing what’s happening, you’re influencing outcomes in real time.

Why This Integration Matters

In a landscape where supply chain disruptions are the norm, not the exception, the Open Sky Group/ProShip partnership delivers a strategic edge.

Here’s how enterprises benefit:

1. Real-Time Responsiveness

Instead of reacting to yesterday’s data, your team can adjust to today’s realities. Kaleidoscope’s live dashboards surface issues as they arise, while ProShip’s platform enables tailored business rules to automatically adapt shipping decisions by rate shopping at the pack station in real time. This functionality selects the optimal carrier and service for each package to minimize costs and delays.

2. Peak Performance Under Pressure

ProShip is purpose-built for enterprise shippers that process thousands of parcels daily. Even at peak volumes, it maintains carrier compliance and fast label generation without slowing down your system or requiring version upgrades. With direct integration to a vast carrier library, ProShip provides unmatched flexibility and choice, enabling shippers to dynamically route shipments across multiple carriers and service levels, optimize for speed and cost, and adapt quickly to capacity constraints for reliable delivery and efficient operations even during the busiest seasons.

Meanwhile, Kaleidoscope keeps your leadership informed with dynamic KPIs and alerts, so you can manage by exception instead of firefighting.

3. End-to-End Transparency

From warehouse floors to doorsteps, this combined solution offers a continuous feedback loop. Kaleidoscope visualizes performance and trends while ProShip captures execution data that feeds back into those analytics. The result is a clear, measurable picture of your operation—helping you refine strategies, carrier mixes, and fulfillment priorities.

4. Smarter Cost Control

With deep visibility into cost-to-serve and intelligent rule-based shipping, you can balance efficiency and expense. By integrating with a broad carrier and service library, ProShip’s ADS enables shippers to evaluate 9 data points, including contracted transit dates, last carrier pick-up time, and label creation time to automatically route each parcel. This ensures on-time deliveries, uncovers hidden savings, and provides smarter cost control. At the same time, Kaleidoscope tracks cost trends and anomalies for proactive financial management.

5. Scalable Resilience

Growth shouldn’t require reengineering your tech stack. Both Kaleidoscope and ProShip scale alongside your business, supporting evolving business rules, carriers, and data flows, without disrupting your existing workflows.

What’s in It for You

If you’re leading supply chain, logistics, or IT strategy for a large enterprise or 3PL, the combination of Kaleidoscope and ProShip means:

• No more blind spots. See and understand your operations in real time.
• No more guesswork. Let data drive your decisions and your shipments.
• No more downtime during peak. Stay compliant, consistent, and fast, even when order volumes surge.

Ultimately, it’s about transforming logistics from a cost center into a competitive advantage—powered by analytics, automation, and seamless execution.

The Bottom Line

By uniting Kaleidoscope’s supply chain intelligence with ProShip’s shipping automation, organizations achieve true end-to-end visibility and control. You gain the ability to anticipate disruptions, enforce consistency, and continuously optimize performance, ensuring every shipment contributes to a smarter, stronger supply chain.

Ready to see the power of analytics-driven shipping in action?
Contact us today to schedule a demo and explore how Open Sky Group and ProShip can help you deliver operational excellence from warehouse to doorstep.

About Open Sky Group

Open Sky Group, stands as a global leader in supply chain technology, boasting a carefully curated portfolio with best-of-breed partners and cutting-edge SaaS platforms. Our diverse operational expertise in multiple supply chain solutions empowers your operations with proven and unparalleled service.

Through our extensive supply chain proficiency and customer-centric focus, we operate as an extension of your existing operations. Being a single solution architect with fluent multi-technology translation, Open Sky Group is your premier supply chain advisor. By merging our partner portfolio with our state-of-the-art SaaS platform, you now possess a comprehensive toolkit for achieving end-to-end supply chain excellence.

At Open Sky Group, our supply chain experts are dedicated to revolutionizing the way you manage your supply chain. We work to propel your business toward unprecedented levels of success through maximized profitability and efficiency in an increasingly competitive landscape.