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A Developer’s Tale of a Missing Flag.

Up until now, investing in shipment monitoring solutions was like buying travel insurance - it was usually purchased in...

Shipping overseas often means no continuous visibility beyond the port. If you ship overseas often, you’re probably...

The balance of power is shifting in the shipping industry — customers are no longer at the mercy of the shipper....

With the kind of cost-effectiveness, hauling capacity, and reliability that it brings in, rail freight transportation...

Reusable packaging or returnable packaging becomes an important part of your business operations as the size of your...

An optimized supply chain is supposed to do more with less. It calls for more throughput, more efficiency, more...

In the world of logistics and supply chains, chances are almost everything that’s moved is moved ON or IN shipping...

When you think of inventory tracking, you often think of purchasing RFID tags and readers at the best price & with the...

You’ve probably heard of a Supply Chain Control Tower.

A Supply Chain Control Tower (SCCT) is a central hub that...

A cold chain data logger, otherwise referred to as a temperature data logger, is a device that records and logs ambient...

While information management systems, warehouse management systems (WMS), and inventory management systems using...

JIT inventory and lean manufacturing make financial sense, but they leave businesses more vulnerable to unexpected...

While wired temperature sensors are a common tool for warehouse temperature monitoring in cold storage warehouses,...

Dwell time can lead to unnecessary spends that drive up total logistics costs, and you can’t always pass that on to...

The Fourth Industrial Revolution — Industry 4.0 — has begun.

The emerging technologies and applications in automated...

The rapid pace of globalization and trade is making supply chain and transport networks more complex than they’ve ever...

Because, despite Google’s mapping and data crunching prowess, it wasn’t designed to get the ETA right for logistics.

Amazonification has been a positive influence for B2B & B2C supply chains, spurring steady improvement in the...

On-time and in-full (OTIF) delivery, sometimes also referred to as Delivery In-Full, On-time (DIFOT), is an important...

Most companies have an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software in place to support their business and supply chain...

On-time delivery is important.

It impacts client satisfaction, the chances of getting more business from a satisfied...

Effective cold chain logistics doesn’t just secure an enterprise’s position on its home ground, it can help it boost...

Supply chain security issues are far too complicated to tackle with passwords, access cards, and software suites alone.

Open data, trustable records, and easy authentication with blockchain could eliminate delays, disruptions, and...

Blockchain, the technology that cryptocurrencies are built on, has the potential to transform more than just online...

Current IoT-enabled ERP solutions aren’t delivering business intelligence or driving growth; well, not as much as they...

Although prevailing RFID systems to tag and track inventory in a warehouse can double up as a theft/pilferage detection...

An article by Sanjay Sharma, the CEO of Roambee which was named the “IoT Sensor Company of the Year” by Compass...

While GPS cargo security & tracking systems can improve the odds of tracing stolen vehicles or trailers, can they...

Warehouse security systems have traditionally focused on protecting the warehouse, not the goods or assets stored...

There are many shipping container security systems that claim to help you protect your cargo. In this article, we will...

Editor's Note: This post was originally published in October, 2017 and has been updated to include Near-field...

A well-run supply chain reduces transit time, enhances customer service, and saves money.Those savings don't come easy...

Learn how monitoring technologies for cold chain logistics have evolved from “physical” data collection with...

A Cold Chain doesn’t have it easy.

It needs to deal with all the usual things that trip up most supply chains AND then...

GPS vehicle tracking systems have been unsuccessful at tracking Less-than Container Load (LCL) goods, individual...

Real-time GPS vehicle tracking and management — aka fleet management — gave rise to the notion that complete logistics...

The first thing you search on Google when you want a logistics visibility solution is a ‘vehicle tracking system.’ But,...

Reusable shipping assets are items in a shipment that are...

Logistics visibility has evolved to a level of granularity where you can monitor every single parcel shipped, and you...

Reusable shipping assets like containers, pallets, crates, totes and bins could be bleeding your supply chain budgets...

Who is Mr. Supply Chain Visibility? And why has he transformed from a “nice-to-have” to a “must-have” consultant...

Have you ever performed a Google search for a GPS, RFID, or temperature data logger solution? If so, you may have used...

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology is positioned to be the third generation of supply chain visibility - replacing...

Today’s IoT marketplace is growing exponentially and industry spend estimates for the next few years continue to climb....

Are you looking to digitize your organization using the Internet of Things (IoT)? Or are you a policy maker in the...

Are you implementing an IoT solution in your organization for supply chain tracking? Do you envision a digitization...

Implementing real-time shipment monitoring to gain visibility across the supply chain is paramount for companies of all...

With today’s fast-paced, highly competitive global environment, organizations need supply chains that are agile, savvy,...

ePOD (Electronic Proof of Delivery) is not a new concept and has been available in the form of stand-alone apps or as...