Customer Stories

Potomac Metals—a privately-held, independent scrap metal recycling company—was founded in 1996 in Sterling, Virginia, and offers a variety of services to their commercial, residential, and industrial customers. Prior to Tive, the company was at the mercy of their brokers and dispatchers. Potomac Metals lacked real-time insight into the location and condition of their shipments, and spent hours manually tracking their expensive cargo.

Founded in 1972, Vianney is a Mexico-based company specializing in the manufacturing and sale of blankets, bedspreads, comforters, sheets, curtains, and home décor items. Vianney needed a reliable way to track their shipments, to protect its clients—and their businesses—from the risks associated with the cartel and criminal organizations... and found Tive.‍

Founded in 2006, YSDS is an international logistics company specializing in unique, customized logistics solutions. Headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden with 11 offices worldwide—and focused on life sciences, IT, and Emergency Part Logistics—YSDS has more than 150 qualified partners and successfully conducts over 80,000 shipments annually.

Powered by groundbreaking cell and gene therapy technology, this innovative Boston life sciences company is committed to delivering a new class of differentiated, one-time curative genetic therapies to address a wide spectrum of diseases—providing precise and effective medicines for patients throughout the United States.

Since its founding in 1871, Hellmann Worldwide Logistics has developed into one of the largest international logistics providers in the world, with €3.5 billion in annual revenue and over 12,000 employees operating in 57 countries. Hellmann manages over 20 million shipments per year. With a breadth of products and experience, Hellmann provides innovative logistics solutions for the complex requirements of every customer—and relies on visionary technical products to provide maximum customer transparency while creating a more efficient supply chain.

Ceres Technology identifies risks related to product availability and cost. To identify these risks, their platform leverages over 25,000 global indicators, including geopolitical risk, economic trends, market conditions, raw materials, global events, and more. By aggregating data from many different sources, Ceres provides deep analytics that enable their customers to understand the disruptions and delays that may affect their manufacturing and shipping processes. Ceres wanted to incorporate real-time shipment tracking data—and reached out to Tive.