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?

How much cargo damage is acceptable in your supply chain? Often, the answer comes down to costs: the cost of damages weighed against the cost of solutions. $500,000 in yearly damages may still not be worth a $10,000,000 packaging investment. However, in this equation, hidden costs need to be factored in too.

Shipping a container of wine glasses isn’t the hard part – not breaking any is. Damage prevention is always priority number one. Learn how real-time condition monitoring can help you deal with damage in your supply chain.

By employing a real-time cargo tracking solution like Visilion, companies can manage their inventories more efficiently and hence reduce their costs. 

What does 2022 have in store for supply chains? The future of supply chain technology seems wide open with possibilities. Do you want to learn more about the implementation of technology within logistics, the future of real-time tracking and visibility solutions such as Visilion and the role of visibility during periods of supply chain crisis?