What is Supply chain tracker and how it transform supply chain visibility?

What is supply chain visibility?

Supply chain visibility refers to a company’s ability to track and monitor parts, components, or products in transit from the manufacturer to their final destination in real-time as they move through the value chain. The objective of  SCV is to improve and strengthen the supply chain by making information readily available to all the stakeholders, including the customer. This real-time info improves customer service, reduces costs, helps with regulatory directives, and mitigates risks that could affect the supplier’s product delivery.

While supply chain operators have traditionally tracked shipments at critical points (such as arriving at a port or being transferred between carriers), the goal for many operators is real-time visibility into a shipment’s location and ambient condition. This goal is particularly important for organizations shipping high-value products-having the ability to track product location and condition reduces the risk of loss, minimizes delays, and empowers businesses to adapt to dynamic global conditions.

The development of supply chain visibility solutions for every level – manufacturing, procurement, logistics, warehousing, and fulfillment – has made companies with integrated digital supply chain functions far more efficient than their predecessors.

Designing & transforming supply chain visibility with Eelink

Eelink’s Supply chain tracking solution is a global technology that helps various businesses to monitor a wide range of supply chain assets. By using our Supply chain tracker, you can track, monitor, and manage your products. You can also track and monitor shipments’ surrounding condition for shock, light, and temperature to identify any damage in real-time, anywhere in the world- at a scale covering millions of products, by realizing efficiencies in your supply chain and optimizing your assets’ usage.

When emphasizing visibility enhancement, the following areas can be leveraged to boost improvements by using sensor-based visibility and IoT

• Risk mitigation
• Clear up blind spots
• Help with quick response times
• Channel visibility
• Provider visibility and communication

Eelinktech’s supply chain solution is integrated with smart sensor tags and Gateways that communicate to Operations Center, providing visibility from plant to final delivery. The supply chain solution has the potential to track your inbound supply chain component’s movement, location and the condition like temperature, humidity, light exposure, shock, tilt, and more about goods as they move through the supply chain to their final destination.  The Eelinktech operation center could monitor the shipments, down to the package level, in almost real-time. This meant that if any tampering, delays, or condition thresholds were breached, team representatives could immediately interact with their network to address the issue in a timely fashion.

Supply Chain tracker is built with many unique and useful features like:

1.Compatible with multiple LTE/LTE-M/NB-IOT/satellite/Wi-Fi/BLE devices

2.View historical trends of sensor data

3.Devices are available to support the monitoring of location, temperature, humidity, motion detection, and ambient light intensity

4.Extensive battery life up to 5 years of one battery charge.

5.Respond in near real-time to critical issues

6.You can establish geo fencing to determine if your supply chain components are outside of established boundaries.

Final words

End to end supply chain visibility has emerged as an integral part in global supply chains. It provides actionable data and helps companies to decrease the impact of disruptions on the supply chain. Thanks to the constant flow of data and insights provided by real-time cargo monitoring & shipping, companies are able to uncover the unknown by revealing supply chain related issues. In-transit visibility creates vast opportunities for supply chain optimisation. Thus, it is now critically more important to wisely choose a platform that adopts the latest technology, provides integrity and scalability, guarantees data security, and easily converts the data into business intelligence for making informed decisions.

Eelinktech’s supply chain visibility solutions support their users in the efficient management of strategic, operative and financial supply chains via enabling real-time data-driven decision making. The installed automated locating and sensing technology on multimodal containers and cargo addresses the need of decision makers for end-to-end, timely, quality data.