Topic: multimodal-shipment-tracking
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How Real-Time Visibility Could Help Overcome Automotive Supply Chain Challenges
By Franco Jain
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Here’s How an End-to-End Intermodal Shipment Tracking System Works
By Edwin Winder
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Intermodal shipments are advancing at a dizzying pace, and so is shipment monitoring technology. The industry has taken...
Why You Should Care about End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility
By Sanjay Sharma
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Just as COVID-19 vaccine distribution efforts began helping the global economy emerge from the economic impact of the...
What's the Difference Between Pharma Track & Trace and Supply Chain Monitoring?
By Santosh Takoor
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Shipping a consignment, no matter what is being shipped, always has an element of risk. If your shipment contains...
6 Essentials of a Pharma Cold Chain Early Warning System
By Premsai Sainathan
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Pharma cold chain monitoring technologies have progressed in leaps and bounds and evolved from manual data collection...
5 Examples of How COVID-19 Made Shipment Monitoring a “Must-Have” in the Industry
By Scott Hurley
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Up until now, investing in shipment monitoring solutions was like buying travel insurance - it was usually purchased in...
Is Cargo iQ Enough to Monitor Your Air Shipment?
By Premsai Sainathan
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As simple as it may seem, air cargo isn’t just about moving boxes in planes. Flying is just 10% of the whole journey of...
3 Ways to Track Air Cargo - And One More That’ll Blow Your Mind
By Premsai Sainathan
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Air shipments are the quickest and safest way to transport goods, but when it comes to tracking them, the options could...
6 Reasons You Should Set Up Your Own Air Cargo Tracking System
By Premsai Sainathan
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Air cargo plays an important role when it comes to quickly transporting temperature-sensitive goods including...
How to Track Your Ocean Container with IoT
By Premsai Sainathan
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Shipping overseas often means no continuous visibility beyond the port. If you ship overseas often, you’re probably...
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....
How to Track Rail Parcels Using GPS Shipment Trackers
By Premsai Sainathan
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With the kind of cost-effectiveness, hauling capacity, and reliability that it brings in, rail freight transportation...
Invest in a Smart Rail Shipment Tracking System — It’s About Time
By Premsai Sainathan
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Globalization, containerization, and a surge in logistics connectivity and shipment tracking systems have been a boon...
When Your Air Cargo Went to Vegas With Roambee…
By Premsai Sainathan
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Roambee can make air cargo shipping a breeze with real-time sensor data monitoring, analytics, and control-tower...
The Cost Breakdown — CapEx vs. OpEx for Shipment Tracking
By Premsai Sainathan
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If you want to track your shipments using the Internet of Things (IoT), the big question is about whether to go 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...
9 Features a Good Cold Chain Data Logger Should Have
By Premsai Sainathan
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A cold chain data logger, otherwise referred to as a temperature data logger, is a device that records and logs ambient...
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...
Are Wireless Sensors Better for Remote Warehouse Temperature Monitoring?
By Premsai Sainathan
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While wired temperature sensors are a common tool for warehouse temperature monitoring in cold storage warehouses,...
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...
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.
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...
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 Shipping Container Security System
By Premsai Sainathan
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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
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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
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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...
6 Reasons to Switch from Vehicle Tracking to Package Tracking
By Rainer Kuehling
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The first thing you search on Google when you want a logistics visibility solution is a ‘vehicle tracking system.’ But,...
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...
Is Digitizing Your Pharma Supply Chain Worth the Cost & Effort?
By Greg Yonko
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Supply chains have been around way longer than intelligent inventory management software, ERPs, or even computers for...
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...
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...