Inbound Control Tower™

Real-time inbound visibility, built for mission-critical programs.

One product, one operating discipline. The Inbound Control Tower is the named software layer of the RK Innovation Center — the system we built to keep mission-critical production lines uninterruptible. Three audit-able commitments. Pilot it in 30 days.

Three Audit-able Commitments

Specifics, not adjectives. Each one written into the SLA.

Every 3PL claims "AI-assisted exception management." We commit to three numbers and put them in the master service agreement. Miss them and you get gainshare credit back.

60s

Visibility latency

When an inbound shipment status changes — at origin, in transit, at port, on dray, at our dock — it appears on the customer dashboard within 60 seconds. p95.

8hr

Exception resolution

When the engine flags an inbound exception, a named RK operator owns it within 8 business hours with a documented mitigation plan. Dedicated programs only.

Same wk

Post-mortem

Any high-severity event gets a written post-mortem with documented root cause and counter-measure, delivered to the customer the same calendar week.

Architecture

Five layers. One product.

The Inbound Control Tower is a stack: data sources, ingestion, the exception engine, operating dashboard, customer dashboard. Built by the RK Innovation Center and operated under one team's accountability.

LAYER 01 Data Sources Carrier EDI / API Customs & freight Supplier ASN Customer ERP Dock scans WMS events Yard / drayage Weather / port LAYER 02 Ingestion Schema mapping Identity resolution Event normalization p95 < 60s Built for high-cardinality multi-customer streams. LAYER 03 Exception Engine ETA prediction Dwell anomaly Carrier scoring Reroute proposal Alert routing Owner assignment Hybrid model stack, private-cloud hosted. LAYER 04 Operating Dashboard Account team UI Floor leader UI Exception queue Variance reports KPI scorecard Post-mortem builder LAYER 05 Customer Dashboard SC leader view Inbound lookahead OTIF / accuracy Exception alerts Customer API Audit log export
Hosting

Private-cloud, US-only data residency by default. Customer data segregated at the tenant boundary. Audit log on every record.

Models

Hybrid stack of dedicated time-of-arrival and dwell-anomaly models. Customer data is never used to train cross-customer models. Sub-2-second p95 inference for the inbound prediction path.

API

Customer-facing REST API for inbound visibility events, exception lifecycle, and KPI export. Documentation and rate limits available under NDA.

Pricing Tiers

Three tiers. Buyable on every program shape.

Tier 01 · Pilot

Inbound Pilot

30 days · fixed fee
  • Up to 3 inbound origins
  • 2 customer users
  • Visibility + exception alerting
  • Weekly variance review
  • Documented hand-off to Program tier
Best for: prove-the-value before a full program commit.
Most common
Tier 02 · Program

Program Operate

Annual · gainshare optional
  • Unlimited inbound origins per program
  • Named operations leader
  • SLA: 60s visibility · 8hr resolution · same-week post-mortem
  • Customer-facing dashboard + API
  • Quarterly business review
Best for: a single mission-critical program already on RK floor.
Tier 03 · Enterprise

Multi-site Enterprise

Multi-year · open-book
  • Multi-site / multi-program coverage
  • Dedicated infrastructure tenant
  • Custom SLA + audit packet
  • Executive sponsor + monthly business review
  • Innovation Center backlog access
Best for: enterprise customers with multi-facility programs.

Pilot the Control Tower in 30 days.