If You Build the Right Tech Stack, 100% Real-time Visibility Can Be Yours
January 4, 2023
January 13, 2023
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If you’re a shipper, freight forwarder, broker, and or third-party logistics provider (3PL), it’s safe to say you’ve heard the words “we want more visibility” uttered with increasing regularity in recent years. Most likely, you’ve said it yourself more than once.
Few topics generate as much discussion in supply chain circles as visibility. Yet those same industry peers talking about it are probably not on the same page regarding what visibility means to them or how to get it.
Tive, a leading provider of temperature loggers and real-time visibility solutions that are powered by multisensor trackers, understands what you really want and need—up-to-the-minute awareness of your freights’ location and real-time conditions.
How you get that detailed information is a matter of personal need and preference. It’s easy to get so caught up in the race to secure technology-driven visibility that you settle for a solution that is just “good enough.”
However, if you’re not thinking about a long-term visibility plan and building a tech stack to deliver exactly what you want—you should be. Our latest white paper can serve as your guide.
What Type of Visibility Do You Need?
It’s impossible to overstate the importance of technology to get the visibility you and all stakeholders need to meet the ever-increasing demands in today’s global supply chains. In days gone by, check calls were the primary way to track and trace shipments. But who has the time—and staffing resources—to work the phones all day long? Sure, you can use an algorithm to identify an asset’s precise location, but will you be satisfied with a solution that delivers only partial data? Sometimes it’s 15%, sometimes 50%—but rarely does it approach 65 or 70%.
Deeper still, how can you be sure the solution you pick delivers item-level condition data that reflect temperature, humidity, light exposure, and shock/vibration events?
The answer is you can’t—not without leveraging multiple data streams in a comprehensive technology solution that provides redundancy where needed but is efficient, effective, and budget friendly.
More Visibility Starts with Data Stream Diversification
One surefire way to achieve 100% visibility is to use tracking devices across all shipments. However, this method may only be cost-effective for some types of commodities.A robust and cost-effective visibility solution can be achieved by strategically deploying trackers for visibility where it is most crucial—think high-value, high-risk freight—and integrating them into a broader visibility tech stack.
Such a solution leverages Application Programming Interface (API), Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), and Electronic Data Logger (EDL) technologies to connect and share data from multiple sources into a single source of truth viewable by all stakeholders—in their preferred platform and in real time. That level of interoperability is precisely what shippers need to fend off cargo loss, spoilage, and theft risks.
Get 100% Real-Time Visibility: Build the Right Tech Stack
Finding an off-the-shelf turnkey solution that uses a form of asset tracking for baseline visibility and strategically layers real-time trackers for your most important freight is challenging. But it is easy to build a proven, efficient, cost-effective, and robust visibility tech stack—resulting in a more aware and informed team. Workers empowered with real-time visibility will perform at the highest levels to assure their customers that they have made every effort to deliver each shipment—on time and in full.
With this white paper, you will learn about
How to Build a Comprehensive Tech Stack to Gain 100% Real-Time Visibility—
in three easy steps!
PLUS:
Read Four Real-World Use Cases of Real-time Visibility in Action!
