Real-Time Freight Tracking:Supply Chain Visibility

Just imag­ine: You’re wait­ing around for an extreme­ly impor­tant pack­age, but all you know is that it’s “in deliv­ery. Frus­trat­ing, right? The truck­loads can’t wait, slack­ers! Not get­ting around to it sim­ply won’t do in today’s whirl­wind logis­tics world. Real-Time Freight Track­ing by TruckingOf­fice is a game chang­er, you see, because now YOU get the accu­rate infor­ma­tion of where your freight is right down to the minute. We found­ed our com­pa­ny on offer­ing that type of trans­paren­cy as a pol­i­cy at The Amer­i­can Truck Inc.

The Evolution of Cargo Tracking

No more paper logs, or check-ins a week or a month ago. Logis­tics space has been ear­ly adopter of tech­nol­o­gy in so also the live sys­tems. The trans­for­ma­tion is not only a mat­ter of con­ve­nience: It’s about waste, secu­ri­ty, reli­a­bil­i­ty and the abil­i­ty to com­pete. It’s why The Amer­i­can Truck Inc. fea­tures full real time track­ing on all our lanes.

What is Real-Time Freight Tracking?

The essence of Real-Time Freight Track­ing is the appli­ca­tion of tech­nol­o­gy to man­age the posi­tion and the state of freight while it moves along the sup­ply chain. That can mean GPS units,RFID tags and sophis­ti­cat­ed soft­ware plat­forms that pro­vide real-time updates — tools The Amer­i­can Truck Inc. has to rely on every day.

Benefits of Real-Time Shipment Tracking

Enhanced Vis­i­bil­i­ty

Now, real-time track­ing of ship­ments allows ship­pers such as The Amer­i­can Truck Inc.’s clients to keep an eye on ship­ments along each step of the way. This com­mu­ni­ca­tion keeps things run­ning more smooth­ly, and ensures issues are addressed ear­ly on.

Main­tain­ing High Lev­el of Cus­tomer Sat­is­fac­tion

After all, we all like to see where our orders are. When we can give a real­is­tic ETA that we know is going to be accu­rate, we also put our­selves in a posi­tion to deliv­er updates on the load, and that very much builds trust – some­thing that we val­ue and keep high stan­dards for at The Amer­i­can Truck Inc.

Oper­a­tional Effi­cien­cy

Eye on the Ball Real-time mon­i­tor­ing also can help udder bot­tle­necks and inef­fi­cien­cies in the sup­ply chain. Time­ly res­o­lu­tion of such issues allows com­pa­nies to stream­line work­flow, save time and reduce costs. That’s the way we roll here at The Amer­i­can Truck Inc.: lean and respon­sive.

Risk Management

Meth­ods The real-time track­ing of ship­ments ensures that delays, theft, or dam­age can be pin­point­ed for a speed­i­er response. Pre­cau­tion­ary approach ] this is risk reduc­tion, it’s risk mit­i­ga­tion. Our pri­or­i­ty should be safe­guard­ing one anoth­er and that’s our safe­ty-first vision at The Amer­i­can Truck Inc.

Tech­nolo­gies for Real-Time Freight Track­ing

GPS Tracking

With GPS track­er, accu­rate loca­tion of the goods can be found. This data is trans­mit­ted over devices that are attached to vehi­cles or con­tain­ers, and this trans­mis­sion can take place at any time. It’s the basis of The Amer­i­can Truck Inc.‘s track­ing pow­er.

RFID Tags

Radio-Fre­quen­cy Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion (RFID) tags con­tain data about the ship­ment. This is applied for record of stock and con­trol stock and prop­er deliv­ery.

IoT Devices

The Inter­net of Things con­nects phys­i­cal objects to the inter­net, which lets them send and receive data. Logis­tic – In logis­tic, Iot devices are used to watch the tem­per­a­ture, humid­i­ty spe­cial good trans­porta­tions. The Amer­i­can Truck Inc employ them to mon­i­tor valu­able loads.

Method and Sys­tem for Live Track­ing of Ship­ping Goods

Assessing Needs

What does your Sup­ply requires Track­ing your sup­ply need A lit­tle reflec­tion before you start for a track­ing solu­tion. Con­sid­er fac­tors includ­ing deliv­ery vol­ume and goods, and the infra­struc­ture that was already in place. That’s what the Amer­i­can Truck Inc. does to be lean and mean.

Choos­ing the Right Tech­nol­o­gy

Choose the tech­nolo­gies that are right for your use case. For instance, GPS track­ing is ide­al for long-haul freight, while RFID tech­nol­o­gy is more suit­ed for ware­house coor­di­na­tion.

Lega­cy sys­tems com­pat­i­bil­i­ty

Ensure that any new track­ing tools inte­grate smooth­ly with exist­ing sys­tems. This pro­vides con­sis­ten­cy of shar­ing infor­ma­tion and enhances run­ning process. At The Amer­i­can Truck Inc, our in-house sys­tems are designed to be com­plete­ly com­pat­i­ble.

Train­ing and Sup­port

Imple­ment staff train­ing on prop­er­ly using the new track­ing sys­tems. Con­tin­u­ous sup­port, from there, means you can get prob­lems solved in real time—and keep your sys­tem up and run­ning.

Bar­ri­ers to Real Time Freight Track­ing

Data Secu­ri­ty

The more you have, the more you have to pro­tect. Pro­tect sen­si­tive infor­ma­tion with cyber secu­ri­ty mea­sures.

Tech­nol­o­gy Costs

Up until now track­ing sys­tems were expen­sive to install and main­tain. But the pay­off in the end is usu­al­ly worth it. That’s a cost we are will­ing to bear at The Amer­i­can Truck Inc because we can also clear­ly see ROI.

Connectivity Issues

Con­nec­tions in out­sourced loca­tions may not pro­vide a strong con­nec­tion for real-time updates. Invest in more robust, region­al­ly con­sis­tent tech­nolo­gies.

Use Case: Enhancing Visibility across the Supply Chain

Real–Time Freight Track­ing It hap­pened to a mid-size logis­tics com­pa­ny- let’s call them The Amer­i­can Truck Inc.- they went the best-of-breed way by select­ing GPS & IoT. It reduced its deliv­ery delays by 20 per­cent, and raised its score for cus­tomer sat­is­fac­tion by 15 per­cent six months lat­er. The new sys­tem also led to the antic­i­pa­tion of pre­ven­tive main­te­nance, which result­ed in a 10% reduc­tion in vehi­cle down­time.

Some Freight Track­ing Trends to Look Out For

AI is able to ingest huge volumes of tracking data to help forecast possible delays and suggest better routes, thus making logistics networks more efficient.

Blockchain Tech­nol­o­gy

Blockchain sup­ports the authen­tic­i­ty, prove­nance and integri­ty of the trans­ac­tion and asset his­to­ry mech­a­nisms dri­ving sup­ply chains – in a secure, trust-based envi­ron­ment.

Advanced Analytics

Sophis­ti­cat­ed ana­lyt­ics enable com­pa­nies to dive deep­er into oper­a­tions and dri­ve con­tin­u­al improve­ment.

TechRadar’s Fleet Track­ing Fea­tures.

Real-Time Freight Track­ing is no longer a val­ue-added fea­ture; it’s an essen­tial on the logis­tics land­scape of today. By using this tech­nol­o­gy, com­pa­nies like The Amer­i­can Truck Inc. are able to gain more vis­i­bil­i­ty to their busi­ness, improve cus­tomer expe­ri­ence and stream­line oper­a­tions. In an indus­try that keeps chang­ing, being ahead in real-time track­ing is going to be cru­cial to main­tain an edge.