Echo Global Logistics:
Echo Global Logistics:
Facilitating Digital Transformation with Cloud Migration and GitOps Transition
Industry: Travel, Hospitality & Logistics
Delivery Center: CSA
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Echo Global Logistics:
Echo Global Logistics:
Industry: Travel, Hospitality & Logistics
Delivery Center: CSA
Industry Context
The logistics and supply chain industry today faces numerous challenges, from meeting increasing demands to optimizing the delivery services. Enterprises are confronted with the need to modernize their IT infrastructure to enhance transparency and streamline operations to meet consumer expectations for speed, sustainability, and reliability. Traditional manual processes of supply chain management present significant hurdles to achieve a competitive edge and meet increasing client demands. There is thus an imperative for a transformative strategy with advanced technologies that can bring automation, scalability, security, and efficiency into IT operations.
Client Challenge
Our client, Echo Global Logistics, Inc., is a premier provider of technology-enabled transportation and supply chain management services. With headquarters in Chicago and over 30 offices nationwide, Echo specializes in freight brokerage and managed transportation solutions across all major modes, including truckload, partial truckload, LTL, intermodal, and expedited services. The client recognized the need for a significant IT infrastructure overhaul to support its expanding operational demands and maintain industry leadership. The manual management of their Kubernetes environments and outdated DevOps practices were barriers to scalability and agility. The customer needed a transformational strategy that could introduce automation, scalability, and efficiency into its IT operations to better respond to the dynamic logistics market.
Approach
Encora emerged as a strategic partner in Echo Global Logistics’ journey towards digital transformation, facilitating a comprehensive shift to cloud infrastructure with AWS and pioneering a DevOps to GitOps transition for enhanced CI/CD processes. AWS was selected as a platform of choice due to its comprehensive suite of services, robust security features, and scalability, enabling Echo Global Logistics to efficiently modernize its IT infrastructure and meet the dynamic demands of the logistics industry. We deployed a range of services that include:
AWS Services
Amazon Elastic
Kubernetes Service (EKS)
Amazon Managed
Streaming for Apache
Kafka (MSK)
AWS WAF
AWS Fargate
Amazon Simple
Storage Service (S3)
Elastic Load
Balancing (ELB)
Amazon EC2
Amazon API
Gateway
Results
Echo Global Logistics’ strategic evolution, spearheaded by Encora and powered by AWS, underscores a pivotal shift towards a more automated, scalable, and efficient IT infrastructure. This transformation not only streamlined Echo’s operations but also set a new standard for agility and innovation in the logistics industry:
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