Topic: supply-chain-visibility
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How Real-Time Visibility Could Help Overcome Automotive Supply Chain Challenges
By Franco Jain
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This Manufacturer is Boosting Its Ice Cream Supply Chain Quality Compliance with Roambee!
By Hari Haran KB
Read Time 7 Mins.
Ice cream — one of the world's most-loved desserts — is best served when it is frosty cold. To keep the favorite...
Here’s How an End-to-End Intermodal Shipment Tracking System Works
By Edwin Winder
Read Time 8 Mins.
Intermodal shipments are advancing at a dizzying pace, and so is shipment monitoring technology. The industry has taken...
A Leading Aftermarket Battery Distributor is Achieving Accurate Demand Signal with Real-Time Visibility
By Vidya Subramanian
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The automotive spare parts industry is a highly competitive domain. Spare parts manufacturers, vendors, and suppliers...
The Journey of a Vaccine in Pharma Cold Chain from Manufacturing to Syringe
By Premsai Sainathan
Read Time 6 Mins.
The ultimate goal of any pharma company is patient well-being, which it cannot achieve without a tight, lean, and...
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...
3 Challenges of the Chemical Industry Supply Chain and How to Beat Them!
By Edwin Winder
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Chemical supply chains stand at the crossroads of another upgrade; on one end there are traditional methods that pose...
Understanding Your Fresh Produce Logistics Journey with Real-Time Data
By Siddharth Iyer
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Dealing with fresh produce logistics means dealing with supply chains that are more prone to risk. The risk of spoilage...
This Chemical Giant Went Digital with Tank Inventory Tracking
By Hari Haran KB
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As an industry that generates trillions of dollars in sales and employs millions globally, the chemical industry is...
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
Read Time 8 Mins.
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...
Where to Start Investing to Optimize Cold Chain Logistics?
By Premsai Sainathan
Read Time 6 Mins.
The exponentially growing complexity of the pharmaceutical supply chain has forced us to rethink the way we manage cold...
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....
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...
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...
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
Read Time 5 Mins.
On-time delivery is important.
It impacts client satisfaction, the chances of getting more business from a satisfied...
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...
Step 1 to Prevent Pilferage & Theft in the Supply Chain — Track Your Packages
By Premsai Sainathan
Read Time 7 Mins.
Supply chain security doesn’t stop at putting up fences, setting up access control, deploying CCTV surveillance, or...
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...
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,...
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...
Mr. Supply Chain Visibility – The Hottest New GST Consultant in Town
By Premsai Sainathan
Read Time 8 Mins.
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
Read Time 10 Mins.
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
Read Time 8 Mins.
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
Read Time 3 Mins.
Today’s IoT marketplace is growing exponentially and industry spend estimates for the next few years continue to climb....
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,...