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How to Keep Your Multimodal Transport Operators on Track
By Premsai Sainathan
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The balance of power is shifting in the shipping industry — customers are no longer at the mercy of the shipper....
Invest in a Smart Rail Shipment Tracking System — It’s About Time
By Premsai Sainathan
Read Time 6 Mins.
Globalization, containerization, and a surge in logistics connectivity and shipment tracking systems have been a boon...
How to Execute Reusable Packaging Management and Tracking in Real-Time?
By Ivan Diaz
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Reusable packaging or returnable packaging becomes an important part of your business operations as the size of your...
How Pallet Management Helps Bring Agility to Your Supply Chain?
By Vidya Subramanian
Read Time 12 Mins.
An optimized supply chain is supposed to do more with less. It calls for more throughput, more efficiency, more...
6 Reasons to Track Your Returnable Shipping Assets
By Vidya Subramanian
Read Time 9 Mins.
In the world of logistics and supply chains, chances are almost everything that’s moved is moved ON or IN shipping...
Attack That Sneaky Hidden Cost in Your Supply Chain: Reusable Packaging
By Premsai Sainathan
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The Hidden Discounts of OpEx for Inventory Tracking
By Premsai Sainathan
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When you think of inventory tracking, you often think of purchasing RFID tags and readers at the best price & with the...
The Evolution of Supply Chain Control Towers
By Premsai Sainathan
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You’ve probably heard of a Supply Chain Control Tower.
A Supply Chain Control Tower (SCCT) is a central hub that...
6 Ways Bluetooth Beacons Can Improve Inventory & Warehouse Management
By Premsai Sainathan
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While information management systems, warehouse management systems (WMS), and inventory management systems using...
How to Mitigate the Risk Associated with Just in Time(JIT) & Lean Inventory
By Manpreet S. Mattu
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JIT inventory and lean manufacturing make financial sense, but they leave businesses more vulnerable to unexpected...
Reduce Container Dwell Time With GPS Container Tracking
By Premsai Sainathan
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Dwell time can lead to unnecessary spends that drive up total logistics costs, and you can’t always pass that on to...
Digital Supply Chain — Impact of Industry 4.0 on Supply Chain Management
By Hitendra Rathore
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution — Industry 4.0 — has begun.
The emerging technologies and applications in automated...
Multimodal Route Optimization - What Makes it Difficult?
By Premsai Sainathan
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The rapid pace of globalization and trade is making supply chain and transport networks more complex than they’ve ever...
Why You Shouldn’t Run a Supply Chain Using Google Maps
By Shailesh Mangal
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Because, despite Google’s mapping and data crunching prowess, it wasn’t designed to get the ETA right for logistics.
Why Last Mile Delivery Optimization Begins with the First Mile
By Premsai Sainathan
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Amazonification has been a positive influence for B2B & B2C supply chains, spurring steady improvement in the...
Calculating Logistics Cost Reduction Through OTIF (On-Time and In-Full) Delivery
By Premsai Sainathan
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On-time and in-full (OTIF) delivery, sometimes also referred to as Delivery In-Full, On-time (DIFOT), is an important...
Connecting Your ERP with IoT and Ultimately Blockchain
By Jim Sabogal
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Most companies have an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software in place to support their business and supply chain...
How to Set the Right On-time Delivery KPIs With GPS Vehicle Tracking
By Premsai Sainathan
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On-time delivery is important.
It impacts client satisfaction, the chances of getting more business from a satisfied...
Blockchain - A Solution for Supply Chain Cyber Security?
By Premsai Sainathan
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Supply chain security issues are far too complicated to tackle with passwords, access cards, and software suites alone.
What Are the Benefits of Blockchain in a Digital Supply Chain?
By Premsai Sainathan
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Open data, trustable records, and easy authentication with blockchain could eliminate delays, disruptions, and...
Why Blockchain is Important for a Connected Supply Chain
By Rainer Kuehling
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Blockchain, the technology that cryptocurrencies are built on, has the potential to transform more than just online...
Giving Your ERP Eyes & Ears with IoT – Part 1
By Shailesh Mangal
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Current IoT-enabled ERP solutions aren’t delivering business intelligence or driving growth; well, not as much as they...
Is an RFID Security System Enough for Warehouse Theft Prevention?
By Premsai Sainathan
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Although prevailing RFID systems to tag and track inventory in a warehouse can double up as a theft/pilferage detection...
The IoT Game: Sensing, Making Sense, and Acting on Data
By Sanjay Sharma
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An article by Sanjay Sharma, the CEO of Roambee which was named the “IoT Sensor Company of the Year” by Compass...
Are GPS Trackers Enough for Cargo Security & Theft Recovery?
By Premsai Sainathan
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While GPS cargo security & tracking systems can improve the odds of tracing stolen vehicles or trailers, can they...
How to Choose a Warehouse Security Monitoring System
By Premsai Sainathan
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Warehouse security systems have traditionally focused on protecting the warehouse, not the goods or assets stored...
7 Features a Cargo & Inventory Security System Should Have
By Premsai Sainathan
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How to Choose a Shipping Container Security System
By Premsai Sainathan
Read Time 6 Mins.
There are many shipping container security systems that claim to help you protect your cargo. In this article, we will...
Supply Chain Visibility Evolution: Barcodes, RFID, NFC, BLE Beacons
By Premsai Sainathan
Read Time 8 Mins.
Editor's Note: This post was originally published in October, 2017 and has been updated to include Near-field...
How to Track LTL Shipments, Packages, and Market Vehicles
By Premsai Sainathan
Read Time 9 Mins.
GPS vehicle tracking systems have been unsuccessful at tracking Less-than Container Load (LCL) goods, individual...
Why Vehicle Tracking Systems Failed in Logistics
By Premsai Sainathan
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Real-time GPS vehicle tracking and management — aka fleet management — gave rise to the notion that complete logistics...
Why Should You Track Your Returnable Shipping Assets
By Premsai Sainathan
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Reusable shipping assets are items in a shipment that are...
Vehicle, Container, or Package Tracking: What’s Right for You?
By Premsai Sainathan
Read Time 12 Mins.
Logistics visibility has evolved to a level of granularity where you can monitor every single parcel shipped, and you...
How to Track Returnable Containers & Pallets using BLE & IoT
By Vidya Subramanian
Read Time 9 Mins.
Reusable shipping assets like containers, pallets, crates, totes and bins could be bleeding your supply chain budgets...
Mr. Supply Chain Visibility – The Hottest New GST Consultant in Town
By Premsai Sainathan
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Who is Mr. Supply Chain Visibility? And why has he transformed from a “nice-to-have” to a “must-have” consultant...
Demystifying “Track & Trace” vs “Real-Time Tracking” vs “Monitoring”
By Cindy Dickey
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Have you ever performed a Google search for a GPS, RFID, or temperature data logger solution? If so, you may have used...
How to Turn BLE into 360° Supply Chain Visibility
By Premsai Sainathan
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Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology is positioned to be the third generation of supply chain visibility - replacing...
Need Supply Chain Security? IoT Can Help You Save Millions!
By Noe Ramos
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Today’s IoT marketplace is growing exponentially and industry spend estimates for the next few years continue to climb....
Industry 4.0: How to Overcome the Challenges of Supply Chain Digitization?
By Neeraj Dharia
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Are you looking to digitize your organization using the Internet of Things (IoT)? Or are you a policy maker in the...
5 Things You Need For Successful Real-Time Supply Chain Tracking
By Premsai Sainathan
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Are you implementing an IoT solution in your organization for supply chain tracking? Do you envision a digitization...
5 Reasons Why Outsourcing Shipment Tracking to 3PLs can Hurt You
By Premsai Sainathan
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Implementing real-time shipment monitoring to gain visibility across the supply chain is paramount for companies of all...
A Cloud-Based Approach to Managing African Supply Chains
By LeRoy Ratnayake
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With today’s fast-paced, highly competitive global environment, organizations need supply chains that are agile, savvy,...
4 Ways How Automated ePOD is Different from Existing Manual ePOD
By Premsai Sainathan
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ePOD (Electronic Proof of Delivery) is not a new concept and has been available in the form of stand-alone apps or as...