Building Real-Time Terminal Dashboards: From Excel to Operational Intelligence
The Problem: When Excel Becomes the Bottleneck Terminal planning at GCT ran on a collection of Excel spreadsheets that had accumulated over years. Volume forecasts were in one sheet. Actual crane moves were in another. Dwell targets were in a third, manually updated by the planning team each morning. There was no connection between the three — no automated refresh, no single source of truth, no way to see the gap between plan and actual in real time.
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