When it comes to improving how effectively your company uses logistics equipment, many teams have to resort to guesswork. But a new generation of asset utilisation optimisation is being shaped by real-time asset tracking. With real-time usage patterns and identification of underutilised equipment, there’s no longer a need to base your optimisation on hunches. 

The Internet of Things can give logistics teams automated insights about their operations for high-performance shipping, maximum utilisation of logistics assets and an optimised supply chain. But what are the best ways to get started? In this article, read about the opportunities and challenges with IoT tracking for logistics, as well as three tips for success.

Old-school logistics optimisation won’t keep your supply chain competitive. Here’s what modern methods can do to help your logistics team improve operational efficiency, reduce downtime, drive shipping KPIs – and take your supply chain optimisation to the next level.

While tracking technologies can improve asset utilisation in your logistics operations, your success will depend on the type of technology you use. Minimising downtime and losses is more difficult when you depend on outdated technologies. Unfortunately, many businesses are stuck in the past.

Long journeys across the seven seas – full of unexpected trans-shipments and untimely delays – make ocean freight visibility difficult. Many businesses turn to tracking container numbers. In this article, find out how to get more from container tracking and achieve advanced ocean freight visibility.

How can you use supply chain visibility day to day? The value of visibility is most obvious when it helps you overcome everyday shipment disruptions. Here are 6 shipping disruptions best solved by a global level of supply chain visibility – created with real-time cargo tracking.

If you want to solve the industry challenges facing electronics supply chains, visibility of cargo is vital. But visibility technologies can improve visibility in different ways. In this post, read about the three visibility standards electronics supply chain leaders should achieve in order to overcome their industry challenges.

Supply chain visibility is a hot topic. But not all visibility is created equal. Snapshot visibility and global visibility are two ends of the spectrum – with drastically different supply chain outcomes.

Learn all about Visilion’s new heatmap analytics – the perfect tool to dig deeper into your supply chain operations, reveal hidden inefficiencies and analyse your sticking points. What are heatmap analytics? What are they for? How do you use them? Project leader Peter Ekdahl explains it all.

Any logistics service provider knows the added difficulty of shipping food (that can spoil), flowers (that are easily crushed) or pharmaceuticals (with expiration dates). Improving visibility with real-time tracking offers the opportunity to address these difficulties, by increasing transparency, traceability & accountability. But how much visibility is enough?