A closed autobahn, and the yard never jams

Lukas runs the warehouses of a large air cargo forwarder around Frankfurt Airport. His five warehouses live on tight dock slots. When the autobahn closes near Kelsterbach or a road shuts by Cargo City South, forty trucks arrive late at once. The yard jams, slots are lost, and his team spends the evening rebooking by phone. With xMap Flows, Lukas built Nova. Whenever a road closes near one of his five warehouses, Nova picks out the full closures, says in plain words which warehouse it hits, hands it to the flow his team built to rebook dock slots, and tells the yard team in Teams. On Tuesday at seven, a crash closes the autobahn near Kelsterbach. Within fifteen minutes Nova has told the warehouse team and moved twenty six slots to the afternoon. The yard never jams, and the team goes home at six. Lukas still gets closures. He just stopped getting the chaos that came with them.

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