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The Journey of a Vaccine in Pharma Cold Chain from Manufacturing to Syringe
By Premsai Sainathan
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COVID-19 Vaccine Maker Improves Teamwork with Logistics Visibility
By Vidya Subramanian
Read Time 6 Mins.
Let's explore the logistics case study of one of the world’s largest pharma companies, the story of how this...
How This Pharma Giant Beat Its Inventory Management and Theft Challenges with OTIF
By Shalini Tiwari
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A pharma giant recently overcame its supply chain security and inventory management challenges and optimized their...
How Real-time Visibility Solves 4 Key Pharma Supply Chain Challenges
By Ivan Diaz
Read Time 10 Mins.
Pharmaceuticals is one industry that's always standing on the verge of doing 'the next big thing' when it comes to not...
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...
IoT in Pharma Supply Chain — Evolution from Vaccine Vial Monitors to Dataloggers to IoT
By Hari Haran KB
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Ensuring product quality when shipping pharmaceutical products is a matter of life or death. This led to the adoption...
Tackling Counterfeit Medicines — Barcodes vs. RFID vs. Blockchain
By Premsai Sainathan
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A WHO report says poor countries lose over 250,000 children to fake and substandard drugs of malaria and pneumonia...
Where to Start Investing to Optimize Cold Chain Logistics?
By Premsai Sainathan
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The exponentially growing complexity of the pharmaceutical supply chain has forced us to rethink the way we manage cold...
Champion Your Pharma Supply Chain Digitization in a Day
By Premsai Sainathan
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As globalization made the pharma supply chain increasingly competitive, the supply chain ecosystems have also become...
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
Read Time 7 Mins.
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...
How to Track Returnable Containers Using LPWAN (Nb-IoT, LTE-M, Sigfox)
By Premsai Sainathan
Read Time 7 Mins.
From barcodes to RFID tags, and from BLE to IoT, if you’re following recent supply chain trends, you will be aware that...
How to Execute Reusable Packaging Management and Tracking in Real-Time?
By Ivan Diaz
Read Time 7 Mins.
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...
9 Features a Good Cold Chain Data Logger Should Have
By Premsai Sainathan
Read Time 9 Mins.
A cold chain data logger, otherwise referred to as a temperature data logger, is a device that records and logs ambient...
6 Ways Bluetooth Beacons Can Improve Inventory & Warehouse Management
By Premsai Sainathan
Read Time 9 Mins.
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...
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...
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
Read Time 7 Mins.
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
Read Time 8 Mins.
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...
8 Traits of Good Cold Chain Monitoring Solutions
By Premsai Sainathan
Read Time 9 Mins.
Effective cold chain logistics doesn’t just secure an enterprise’s position on its home ground, it can help it boost...
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...
Mean Kinetic Temperature (MKT) Calculation Should be Real-time
By Shailesh Mangal
Read Time 8 Mins.
A change in temperature doesn’t determine whether cold chain products spoil.
Rather, it’s the ‘degree’ and ‘frequency’...
How Can Cold Chain Monitoring Reduce Logistics Cost?
By Premsai Sainathan
Read Time 9 Mins.
A well-run supply chain reduces transit time, enhances customer service, and saves money.Those savings don't come easy...
Data Loggers vs Bluetooth Temperature Sensors vs IoT for Cold Chain Monitoring
By Vidya Subramanian
Read Time 7 Mins.
Learn how monitoring technologies for cold chain logistics have evolved from “physical” data collection with...
10 Potential Risks in Cold Chain Management
By Premsai Sainathan
Read Time 10 Mins.
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...
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...
6 Reasons to Switch from Vehicle Tracking to Package Tracking
By Rainer Kuehling
Read Time 7 Mins.
The first thing you search on Google when you want a logistics visibility solution is a ‘vehicle tracking system.’ But,...
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...
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...
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...