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French technology specialist, Wiremind Cargo recently unfurled CargoStack, a comprehensive SaaS Cargo Management System (CMS) suite that has propelled enhanced air cargo activity using AI-driven capabilities to new heights.

CargoStack is Wiremind Cargo’s first holistic product suite designed to ensure seamless interaction between airlines, GHAs, GSAs, and forwarders. Built around a SaaS core system, airlines can use the CMS to manage their entire cargo activity from schedule to live capacity and bookings, from products and customer management, to flight optimization and loading.

Since all data points within CargoStack, such as rates or capacity information, are linked to respective Applications Programming Interface (APIs), its strategic modules can easily be integrated into the IT landscapes of the airline, whether to its own systems or those of its forwarding customers, as well as its GSA and GHA partners.

The entire system architecture has been designed to enhance the airline’s competitive advantage. To get better acquainted with the newest technology offering, Global Supply Chain conducted a one-on-one interface with Nathanaël De Tarade, CEO, Wiremind Cargo, for the lowdown and detail spiel on the subject.

Global Supply Chain (GSC): For those unfamiliar, give us a brief profile of Wiremind Cargo and the parent company Wiremind Group?

Nathanaël De Tarade (NDT): Wiremind is a software company specialized in the transport industry, created in 2014 and based in France, which employs around seventy people. While we are the European leader in Revenue Management Solutions for the railway industry, we also have launched Wiremind Cargo as a dedicated entity to address the needs of the Air Cargo industry.

GSC: Wiremind Cargo recently unfurled CargoStack CMS. Give us the update on this newest introduction?

NDT: CargoStack is a Cargo Management Suite that is built around a core CMS. We believe that this CMS is the most innovative of the industry: if you look at the user experience, at the way you can handle quotes, bookings, schedules, flights, allotments, and other parameters as well as at the AI-powered forecast for revenue optimization, we offer multiple solutions that make it a very different yet effective CMS compared with legacy systems.

GSC: Why was it necessary to introduce CargoStack? How did it emerge?

NDT: In a nutshell: looking at the level of maturity of the industry combined with the level of maturity of the technology, it appeared to us that it was the right thing to do.

We have implemented SkyPallet with more than 15 clients in the past three years, and we saw how there was the potential to go much further: the industry is undergoing a large digital transformation and our skills and expertise can bring something to the table that other providers do not. In every recent discussion I had with customers, there was a moment where the question ‘can you do more?’ came up.

GSC: What are the advantages and USPs (Unique Selling Propositions) of CargoStack?

NDT: We have four clear differences with our competition. We are a standout in the following segments

Firstly, in the UI (user interface) usage. The ‘look and feel’ of a system is no longer something which is “nice to have.” It has become a must-have if you want to retain talent. CargoStack offers the best UI in the market.

Secondly, in the unique capacity management approach with our embedded SkyPallet module, which is also unique in the market.

Thirdly, in our Data Science capabilities. We have deployed AIpowered models in production, not just PoCs or research. As an example, we have a Deep Learning model that optimizes revenue for 150 million pax bookings per year for our biggest railway client.

So, we know how to use AI, and we also know where in Air Cargo it makes sense to rely on it. Demand forecast,