Technical01
Surface the blind spots
Expose the feeder / origin milestones and full Class I rail events that IMS cannot reach today — visibly, on in-scope containers.
Executive Proposal · Validation Findings
What we found validating the Control Tower against Lowe’s own data.
You asked us to test the case for a single, unified Supply Chain Control Tower. This page walks through where the visibility gaps are today, what they cost, and how one layer across ocean, feeder, rail, and depot closes them.
Prepared for Cheryl Welch, Vice President, Supply Chain – Transportation, Lowe’s
Gnosis · August 27, 2026 · Confidential — under mutual NDA since February 2026
The outcome
Reduce total freight spend by 1–3%
That is the number the Control Tower is built to move, and it is grounded in what we have analyzed across Lowe’s data so far and what we deliver for other large shippers today. Everything that follows — the blind spots, the ISF wedge, the demurrage exposure — is a concrete proof point for how we get there.
1–3%of total freight spend
01The Vision
A single Control Tower across ocean, feeder, rail, and depot.
One unified visibility and execution layer instead of fragmented systems and manual spreadsheets — a single coherent data model for the entire inbound supply chain.
It sits on top of Maersk Supply Chain Platform and Blue Yonder TMS, which handle different functions across different parts of the chain, and unifies what they see while adding the layer they don’t cover.
At the same time it replaces IMS as the DCM and visibility layer, delivering the same function on a modern data model.
This is the direction you have already been moving toward, and the sections that follow lay out the evidence behind it.
End-to-end visibility
Predictive ETAs
Demurrage mitigation
ISF / customs compliance
Unifying layerGnosis Control TowerUnified DCM & visibility layer — replaces IMS
Replaces IMS
Execution
Maersk Supply Chain Platform
Ocean & SCM execution
Execution
Blue Yonder TMS
Domestic transportation execution
Long term — the destination
The Control Tower you’ve already committed to
A unified Supply Chain Control Tower is a stated Lowe’s initiative, not something we’re introducing. The question was never whether the destination is right — it’s whether a partner can actually deliver it. We have built this layer for other large shippers, and it is running in production today.
Delivered for shippers like
- A leading furniture manufacturer & retailerCompliance detection — ISF alarmsMulti-millions in penalty findings surfaced and mitigated
- A national value / discount retailerEnd-to-end ocean and rail visibilitySingle view across ocean carriers and Class I rail
- A major appliance manufacturer — and a current Lowe’s vendorLowe’s vendorUnified DCM across all inboundOne execution layer across every inbound carrier
Shared under the mutual NDA in place since February 2026. Named references and reference calls available on request.
Short term — where we start
Distinct problems we can solve now
You don’t have to buy the whole platform to see the value. Each item below is a discrete, painful problem we can close on its own, on your own data, inside the POC. Individually they pay for themselves; together they are proof points for what a full Control Tower partnership with Gnosis looks like.
02What We Found
Three things IMS can’t see today.
None of these are visible in your current systems, and each one is something we can surface within the first week of the POC. The first two are pure visibility gaps, where the data either shows up or it doesn’t, while the third translates directly into cost.
Blind spot
Feeder & origin milestones, low latency
Real-time visibility into feeder and transshipment moves, plus the 2–3 day origin gate-in to vessel-departure window that is dark today. Lowe’s flagged this window as P1.
2–3 day
origin window currently unseen
03The Compliance Wedge
One capability that also reduces compliance risk
The customs-timing intelligence that mitigates exam and appointment demurrage is the same capability that validates whether ISF filings are on time and correct.
Because that one capability produces value in two different places, it makes the case for a unified platform rather than a set of point solutions — you build the intelligence once and it pays back across both demurrage mitigation and compliance.
Every late or incorrect ISF filing carries a direct penalty, and the timing intelligence needed to prevent it is something Gnosis already produces.
CBP penalty
$5,000
per late or incorrect ISF filing — avoidable with timing intelligence Gnosis already produces.
04The Quantified Case
The exposure, sized on your own numbers
This is one of the concrete levers behind the 1–3% total freight spend reduction — how it actually adds up. You can adjust each assumption below; we have kept the model deliberately conservative, so even at cautious capture rates the addressable savings hold up.
Assumptions
100,000
2%
$1,500
30%
Gross annual exposuregross exposure (illustrative estimate)
$3,000,000
100,000 containers × 2% × $1,500
Gnosis-addressable savingsto be confirmed against Lowe’s actual data in the POC
$900,000
$3,000,000 × 30% capture
These figures are hypotheses to confirm in the POC rather than guarantees. Soft savings, such as the FTE hours currently spent disputing charges manually, would be additional and are not modeled here.
05Architecture
Where Gnosis fits in your existing stack
End-to-end visibility
Predictive ETAs
Demurrage mitigation
ISF / customs compliance
Unifying layerGnosis Control TowerUnified DCM & visibility layer — replaces IMS
Replaces IMS
Execution
Maersk Supply Chain Platform
Ocean & SCM execution
Execution
Blue Yonder TMS
Domestic transportation execution
Gnosis replaces IMS as the DCM and visibility layer, and sits on top of Maersk SCM and Blue Yonder TMS without disturbing them.
The systems Gnosis replaces are used primarily by the logistics and transportation org that you own, which keeps the line of ownership clean from decision through to deployment.
Proven architecture
This same layered approach — unifying visibility on top of Maersk and a domestic TMS — is live today with a comparable big-box importer, using the same partners.
06The POC
A 60-day POC that generates the business case from your own data.
The POC is built around three jobs.
Financial02
Measure the real spend
Quantify Lowe’s actual demurrage and detention spend and ISF exposure from your own historical container data.
Capture03
Prove the recovery
Show what Gnosis’s ~30% capture rate would have saved on real Lowe’s containers last quarter, so the business case is built entirely from your own figures.
Exit criteria
Agreed up front so success is unambiguous
- Visibility
Gnosis surfaces feeder / origin and full Class I rail events IMS does not, on 95% of in-scope containers.
95% - ETAs
Predictive ETA accuracy beats current IMS ETA error by 25% (baseline captured at POC start).
25% - Financials
Measured demurrage / ISF exposure on POC containers reported as actual dollars; annualized addressable savings at the agreed capture rate.
Actual $
07The Close
What the POC proves, and what you’re actually buying
Feeder milestones, Class I rail, and demurrage and ISF exposure aren’t the product in themselves; they are the proof points. They represent the hardest, most granular corners of your supply chain, the ones IMS can’t reach, and delivering on them sets the standard you can expect across the entire Control Tower.
The POC measures those corners, but what you are ultimately investing in is the complete picture across the whole chain.
Phase 1
POC — prove the corners
Validate the hardest, most granular corners against Lowe’s own data over 60 days.
Phase 2
Control Tower platform
The unified visibility and execution layer spanning ocean, feeder, rail, and depot in a single view.
Future
Optional modules
FinOps / freight audit, drayage TMS, and ERP integration as the platform expands.