Partners

On Wheelhouse, companies are able to share information/resources amongst themselves through a simple user-interface which resembles a mailing system.

A company intending to share rail shipments with another organization that they regularly partner with, for example a care party, can do so by sending an invitation to a member of the care party organization. Once this invitation is accepted by the care party, they will gain access to these shared rail shipments (i.e rail shipments where they are assigned as 'care party').

To demonstrate this concept, take an organization that has resources to share, it will be the one to send invitations. It has three parties: two are rail parties, and the last is a trucking party. This means that it will be sending three invitations, to each organization the respective party represents. Any resource that the party is mentioned as a contributor or partner will become a shared resource.

A Company, its parties, and resources.

From the figure, Rail Party A is care party on Shipment A, Rail Party B is care party on Shipment B, and TBOSS Party is assigned as carrier in tickets A, and B.

Invitations

Invitations are the means for connecting two companies on Wheelhouse so that the invitee-company gains access to shared resources from the inviter-company.

Building on the example from earlier, an invitation is sent out by email to the invitee organization using the Wheelhouse platform. The invitee accepts the invitation on behalf of their organization, and connects their company to the inviter.

A Company, its parties, and partner companies.

From the figure, Rail Party A has formed the basis of partnership Inviter Company and Invitee Company A. Rail Party B offers a the same benefit to Company B as Rail Shipments from the inviter will be shared. However, TBOSS Party is a Truck Ticket Party and as such Company T will have access to shared Truck Tickets.

Shared Resources

When companies are partnered up in Wheelhouse, the partner-company gains access to shared resources which they can analyze to further improve/streamline their business process. These shared resources can be truck tickets, rail shipments, or contracts.

Actually, the type of resource shared is very dependent on what company-party is used to make the invitation. This is because rail shipment parties and truck ticket parties are different entities on Wheelhouse, even though they are both company-parties. This difference forms the basis of difference between invitations and the resource types that are shared.

Shared resources to respective partners.

The figure above describes this by building further on earlier examples. Notice that Company T, after accepting their invitation which links them to Inviter Company through TBOSS Party, will gain access to only those Truck Tickets were TBOSS Party is a party.