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 Minimising downtime and losses is more difficult when you depend on outdated technologies.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?

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.