USE CASE

Transportation and Logistics

Keep transportation and logistics operations moving with secure, resilient access to critical apps and data. Citrix helps strengthen continuity, control, and compliance

Strengthen transportation and logistics with secure, resilient access

Transportation and logistics organizations depend on continuous access to transportation management systems (TMS), warehouse management systems (WMS), fleet, customs, ERP, and analytics platforms, across distributed operations. But fragmented applications, distributed teams, rising costs, third-party security concerns, and growing compliance requirements make control harder to maintain. Major supply chain or third-party compromises have increased nearly four-fold over the last five years, while total freight expenditures are up 18.7% vs 2025.

Citrix helps transportation and logistics teams securely access critical applications and data from any location or device, while strengthening resilience, governance, and control across the business and its partners.

Business outcomes with Citrix

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Resilient operations across hybrid and multicloud environments

Deliver virtual apps and desktops across flexible cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments. Support stakeholders who need only secure browser connectivity through Citrix SecurAccess with Chrome Enterprise. Both approaches help maintain continuity during disruptions, outages, site issues, or demand spikes.

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Secure access to critical platforms

Provide zero trust, contextual access to ERP, WMS, TMS, dispatch, routing, fleet, analytics, customer-service, customs, and documentation platforms with Citrix DaaS and Citrix SecurAccess with Chrome Enterprise using role-, device-, location-, and risk-based controls.

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Lower costs and simplify IT operations

Centralize management, streamline endpoint administration, reduce device complexity and lower costs with Citrix DaaS and Citrix Platform Flex. Scale workspace resources quickly as demand changes, seasonal peaks emerge, new sites open, contractors onboard, acquisitions occur, or operational priorities shift..

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Support for mobile, distributed, and third-party users

Enable drivers, warehouse employees, dispatchers, customs teams, contractors, brokers, carriers, partners, and back-office staff to access approved apps securely across locations and devices with Citrix DaaS and Citrix SecurAccess with Chrome Enterprise.

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Strengthen governance and compliance

Centralize policy enforcement and apply contextual access controls with Citrix SecurAccess ZTNA. Govern access consistently across employees, partners, devices, and locations. Reduce exposure, support audit readiness, and maintain tighter control over sensitive logistics systems and data.

“With teams using different applications there were challenges staying in sync and ensuring all teams had access to critical data when they needed it.”

Quentin Drion, Senior IT Director of Infrastructure & Operations, MSC

Read the MSC customer story

Transportation and logistics use cases 

Use case or role

Dispatch, transportation, warehouse, and distribution operations

How Citrix helps

Secure access to core transportation and warehouse apps across shared, and site-based devices

Seasonal workers and contractors

Quickly provision role-based access to required apps without complex device setup or excess permissions.

Drivers and mobile workers

Enable secure access from mobile and unmanaged devices while limiting exposure of sensitive systems and data

Customs, freight, carriers, brokers, suppliers, and partners

Provide app-specific access with centralized policy control to reduce risk from unmanaged devices and external access:

Back-office, finance, HR, procurement, and operations

Deliver consistent experiences and centralized control for teams supporting operations

IT and security teams

Centralize access, governance, operations, and resilience across hybrid and multicloud delivery

Flexible consumption aligned to transportation and logistics demand

Transportation and logistics demand is rarely static. Shipment volumes fluctuate, driver and warehouse labor needs shift, customers and partners change, and new sites or acquisitions may need to be supported quickly.

Citrix Platform Flex helps organizations align digital workspace resources with changing operational needs. Instead of managing access and capacity through rigid models, transportation and logistics organizations can scale more flexibly across roles, locations, workloads, partners, and seasons.

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How Citrix helps MSC safeguard security across a global IT network