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Case Study · CONTAINER HANDLING

From 25,000 to 200,000 Assets.
Built for Real Warehouse Scale.

How Container Freight Revolution GmbH digitised high-volume vehicle and container inspections in Bremerhaven with Emory Pro

How Container Freight Revolution GmbH digitised
high-volume vehicle and container inspections in
Bremerhaven with Emory Pro

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CFR Warehouse
CFR Warehouse

Client

Container Freight Revolution GmbH

Industry

Container handling & logistics

Container handling & logistics

Location

Bremerhaven, Germany

Use case

Vehicle & container inspections

WHEN WE STARTED

WHEN WE STARTED

25,000+

25,000+

25,000+

Assets managed by CFR
on mobile

Assets managed by CFR
on mobile

PER INSPECTION

PER INSPECTION

75–100

75–100

75–100

Photos captured per container
inspection

Photos captured per container
inspection

Photos captured per container inspection

NOW SUPPORTS

NOW SUPPORTS

200,000

200,000

200,000

Assets on the Emory Pro mobile app,
online and offline

Assets on the Emory Pro mobile app,
online and offline

Assets on the Emory Pro app, online and offline

01
Context

Context

Container Handling at Scale Requires Better Evidence

Container Freight Revolution GmbH operates container handling and transshipment logistics in Bremerhaven. Its operations include container loading and unloading, storage and yard management, vehicle logistics, visual inspections, photo documentation and damage recording.

In this environment, documentation is not simply administrative work. Every asset movement can require detailed visual evidence, and a single inspection may involve dozens of photographs.

Container Freight Revolution GmbH operates container handling and transshipment logistics in Bremerhaven: loading and unloading, yard management, vehicle logistics, and damage recording.

In this environment, documentation is not simply administrative work. Every asset movement can require detailed visual evidence, and a single inspection may involve dozens of photographs.

Container Freight Revolution GmbH operates container handling and transshipment logistics in Bremerhaven: loading and unloading, yard management, vehicle logistics, and damage recording.


In this environment, documentation is not simply administrative work. Every asset movement can require detailed visual evidence, and a single inspection may involve dozens of photographs.

THE BRIEF
The BRIEF
THE BRIEF
Make inspection documentation fast enough for warehouse operations while still producing structured, reliable evidence.
02
The Challenge

The Challenge

When an Inspection requires 100 photos, every Extra Click matters

When an Inspection requires 100 photos, every Extra Click matters

CFR’s processes originally relied heavily on manual workflows. A later digital solution still left the warehouse experience cumbersome particularly for assets needing large numbers of photographs.

THE OLD LOOP, REPEATED DOZENS OF TIMES

THE OLD LOOP, REPEATED DOZENS OF TIMES

01

1

Take a photo

02

2

Return to the previous screen

03

3

Select the photo action again

04

4

Take the next photo

05

5

Repeat the process dozens of times

Repeat the process dozens of times

Repeat the process dozens of times

~ 50

photos per vehicle

75 - 100

photos per container
A workflow that looks acceptable for five photographs becomes a serious operational bottleneck at that volume

WHAT THE TEAM NEEDED

High-volume photo capture that is fast and intuitive

High-volume photo capture that is fast and intuitive

High-volume photo capture that is fast and intuitive

A workflow that works naturally in a warehouse

A workflow that works naturally in a warehouse

A workflow that works naturally in a warehouse

Standardised inspections across employees

Standardised inspections across employees

Standardised inspections across employees

Evidence linked to the correct asset

Evidence linked to the correct asset

Evidence linked to the correct asset

Support for a very large inventory on mobile

Support for a very large inventory on mobile

Support for a very large inventory on mobile

Continued operation when connectivity is limited

Continued operation when connectivity is limited

Continued operation when connectivity is limited

One consistent inspection workflow for the organisation

One consistent inspection workflow for the organisation

One consistent inspection workflow for the organisation

03
The Transformation

The Transformation

The Transforma
tion

One Mobile Workflow for the Warehouse

One Mobile Workflow for the Warehouse

CFR moved to Emory Pro in May 2024. Inspectors open the asset, follow the configured workflow, capture photos, and the entire record stays connected to that asset.

What Changed

Faster photo documentation

Faster photo documentation

Dozens of photos captured in one continuous flow, no navigating back between each image.

Dozens of photos captured in one continuous flow, no navigating back between each image.

Structured digital inspections

Structured digital inspections

Data, photos and findings captured together in one workflow, not spread across tools.

Data, photos and findings captured together in one workflow, not spread across tools.

Asset-level evidence

Asset-level evidence

Every photo and finding stays linked to the correct vehicle or container.

Every photo and finding stays linked to the correct vehicle or container.

Standardised execution

Standardised execution

One consistent digital process across the entire warehouse team.

One consistent digital process across the entire warehouse team.

Digital records

Digital records

All inspection information available digitally, instantly.

All inspection information available digitally, instantly.

Mobile-first operations

Mobile-first operations

Designed around the people actually performing inspections in the warehouse.

Designed around the people actually performing inspections in the warehouse.

04
Real warehouse conditions

Real warehouse conditions

Online when Connected Operational when Offline

Online when Connected Operational when Offline

Warehouse and logistics environments cannot assume perfect connectivity. The Emory Pro mobile application is designed so field teams keep working with their asset inventory and inspection workflows even when connectivity is unavailable.

THE DEMANDING PART

For CFR, offline capability meant the mobile application needed to handle an inventory of approximately 25,000 assets.

That became an important engineering challenge for the Emory Pro team.

05
A challenge that made the product stronger

A challenge that made the product stronger

From 25,000 Assets to a Mobile Architecture built for 200,000

From 25,000 Assets to a Mobile Architecture built for 200,000

CFR didn't just adopt Emory Pro. Their scale pushed the platform forward. At 25,000 assets in the mobile environment, they represented far more than conventional inspection apps typically handle.

25,000+

Assets at CFR

Product
optimisation

Storage, Loading, Search, Sync

200,000

Assets supported online and offline

This is how we believe B2B software should evolve: not around theoretical requirements, but around the realities of the teams using it every day

"Before Emory Pro, high-volume photo documentation in our warehouse was slow and entirely manual. Today it just works, and our entire inspection workflow runs faster and more reliably than before."
Malte Waldow,
Managing Director, CFR
Malte Waldow,
Managing Director, CFR
06
Before & After

Before & After

From Repetitive Documentation to Operational Infrastructure

From Repetitive Documentation to Operational Infrastructure

Before Emory Pro, high-volume inspection documentation created unnecessary friction for CFR's warehouse employees. Today the process runs through a single digital platform designed around the operational reality of container and vehicle handling.

BEFORE EMORY PRO

Repetitive Photo Capture

Navigate back through the tool for every image, dozens of times per inspection.

Manual, fragmented records

Paper workflows and disconnected tools with no single source of truth.

No mobile scale

Large inventories created significant challenges for mobile inspection workflows

WITH EMORY PRO

High-volume photo capture that is fast and intuitive

High-volume photo capture that is fast and intuitive

High-volume photo capture that is fast and intuitive

A workflow that works naturally in a warehouse

A workflow that works naturally in a warehouse

A workflow that works naturally in a warehouse

Evidence linked to the correct asset

Evidence linked to the correct asset

Evidence linked to the correct asset

Support for a very large inventory on mobile

Support for a very large inventory on mobile

Support for a very large inventory on mobile

Continued operation when connectivity is limited

Continued operation when connectivity is limited

Continued operation when connectivity is limited

07
How we build

How we build

Built with Customers, Not just for them

Built with Customers, Not just for them

When a customer operates at a scale or under conditions that expose a limitation, we don't simply work around it. We use that operational challenge to improve the underlying platform. CFR's 25,000-asset mobile inventory pushed us to make Emory Pro significantly more scalable.

When a customer operates at a scale or under conditions that expose a limitation, we don't simply work around it. We use that operational challenge to improve the underlying platform. CFR's 25,000 asset mobile inventory pushed us to make Emory Pro significantly more scalable.

THE RESULT

Inspection operations with up to 200,000 assets on mobile and the same improvements are available to every Emory Pro customer.
08
The outcome

The outcome

CFR's Warehouse Inspection Workflow now Runs Fully Digital, High-Volume, and Built to Scale on Emory Pro.

Inspection software built for real operations

Inspection software built for real operations

Inspection software built for real operations

Built for operations. Designed for accountability. Emory Pro gives field teams one place to inspect, document and create reliable evidence — online or offline.

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