Location Tracking Across The Delivery Chain

AiRISTA’s RTLS platform, Sofia, unifies indoor and outdoor location tracking for a seamless view of assets. Logistics is defined as a crucial component of supply chain management, emphasizing its role in planning, implementing, and controlling the flow and storage of goods and related information from the point of origin to consumption. It defines logistics as involving the planning, implementation, and control of effective and efficient flow and storage of goods and services, and encompasses all activities that ensure products reach their destination in accordance with customer needs.

A multifunction asset tag combines BLE, GPS, and cellular technologies for continuous visibility.

Provide seamless insights into the inventory and location of goods both indoors and outdoors, eliminating walls between warehouse and logistics tracking systems.

Right-size Your Inventory: The average level of inventory accuracy among U.S. retailers is a modest 63%, resulting in bloated safety stocks and inventory stockouts. Implementing demand forecasting can help manage inventory levels more effectively and improve accuracy. Efficient order processing, including activities such as picking, sorting, and consolidating orders, is crucial for improving inventory accuracy and reducing lead times.
Eliminate Stockouts: 40% increase of product order-to-delivery lead times reported in the last 2 years.
Facility Operations: Accessorial cost savings through reduced detention and improved OITF.
Proactively Manage Exceptions: Predict delivery exceptions early while there is still time to take corrective action, and share data across the supply chain for a coordinated response.

ETO Finished Goods Tracking for Supply Chain Management

Engineered-to-order (ETO) products are custom-built to the specifications of the customer. Visibility to their location and delivery progress is key to customer satisfaction. Delivery delays can result in financial penalties. Some manufacturers have resorted to air freight to meet deliveries erasing any margin on the sale.
Effective tracking of ETO finished goods requires advanced logistics capabilities. Logistics management is essential for planning and controlling the efficient flow and storage of goods, and it plays a critical role in enhancing supply chain efficiency. These capabilities enhance supply chain efficiency by not only executing basic logistics functions but also providing customized services and comprehensive supply chain management.

The same applies to mobile personal storage units. Using low-cost BLE tags and the indoor wireless infrastructure, storage units that may have been at rest for years can be located instantly, eliminating the need to write off the contents to compensate the owner. And when loaded on trucks for delivery, customers can track the location and estimated delivery date like they would an Amazon package.

Track Goods In Transit and Transportation

Tracking from indoors to outdoors, the A67 tag seamlessly switches between traditional indoor location techniques to tracking techniques more appropriate for outdoors. The importance of global logistics in managing the flow of goods across international supply chains cannot be overstated, as it facilitates the transportation, storage, and distribution of products from production points to various global markets. Logistics companies play a vital role in facilitating transportation, storage, and distribution of products, and often form horizontal alliances to enhance service offerings and reduce costs. The cellular radio provides outdoor backhaul as well as location when no GPS signal is available. As a BLE gateway, the A67 can track low-cost BLE-tagged items like boxes in a trailer. Using BLE proximity, the A67 tags can associate tractors with trailers.

Location insights and tag management are centrally managed from the Sofia RTLS software platform, AiRISTA’s IoT-ready RTLS platform to centralize your view of assets in motion.

AiRISTA’s Outdoor Asset Tracking Solution

Real-time location visibility keeps processes humming and provides insights into opportunities for increased efficiency. The importance of logistics services in supporting outdoor asset tracking and enhancing supply chain efficiency cannot be overstated. Effective logistics services are essential to meet customers’ requirements by ensuring timely and accurate delivery of goods. As assets move between indoor and outdoor environments, track and timestamp their location from a centralized platform.

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Manage Assets As They Move Indoors & Outdoors

For a continuous view of assets, AiRISTA’s sofia platform uses cost-effective BLE technology for indoor locations leveraging customers’ wireless network infrastructure and low-cost BLE tags. Material handling plays a crucial role in managing assets as they move indoors and outdoors, ensuring efficient product flow and meeting customer requirements. Supply chain management professionals are responsible for overseeing the efficient transportation, storage, and distribution of goods, ensuring that customer requirements are met. For goods in transit, the A67 multifunction asset tag acts as a BLE gateway, accounting for BLE-tagged items in the vehicle.

The A67 tag also supports cellular connectivity to provide location as well as backhaul of the tag’s GPS coordinates. The tag’s eSIM supports 3rd party mobile carriers for cost-effective mobility or chooses from AiRISTA-offered plans. The Sofia platform can be delivered on-premises or from the cloud.