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Cold Chain Logistics Management: How to Handle Temperature-Sensitive Goods

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When ice cream melts in your hands on a hot day, it can be a bit frustrating; but if a load of vaccines can’t be used because it went bad due to wrong storage or transportation conditions, the results are a lot more serious, if not fatal. So, it’s important that all the parties of supply chains (3PLs, carriers, storage facilities, etc.)

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Freight Forwarder: Key Workflows and Technology

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Freight forwarders are experts that boost global trade and international transportation. Freight forwarders are intermediaries between shippers (manufacturers, wholesalers, or retailers) and carriers ( sea , air, and land transportation providers) that organize and coordinate the movement of goods across international borders.

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Asset Tracking in Logistics: When and Which Technologies to Implement

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Modern asset tracking systems allow business operators and managers to always be on top of their assets’ location, condition, maintenance status, and performance, having access to all collected data in centralized storage. Let’s look at some common logistics industry challenges that technology-based tracking can help cope with.

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Making Sense of IoT Platforms: AWS vs Azure vs Google vs IBM vs Cisco

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For the most part, they belong to the Internet of Things (IoT), or gadgets capable of communicating and sharing data without human interaction. The number of active IoT connections is expected to double by 2025, jumping from the current 9.9 The number of active IoT connections is expected to double by 2025, jumping from the current 9.9

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Supply Chain Control Tower: Enhancing Visibility and Resilience

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If we speak about end-to-end visibility, we mean that we should be able to have a granular view of all the main components of a supply chain: transportation – which entails control over the actual delivery process, tracking shipments , predicting ETA , etc.; The readings from IoT sensors and other connected devices (e.g.,

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IoT Architecture: the Pathway from Physical Signals to Business Decisions

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IoT solutions have become a regular part of our lives. This article describes IoT through its architecture, layer to layer. Major IoT building blocks and layers. Before we go any further, it’s worth pointing out that there is no single, agreed-upon IoT architecture. The skeleton of an IoT system.

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RTLS in Warehouses: Boosting Efficiency with IoT-Based Systems

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An RTLS or real-time location system is an autonomous, IoT -based network of connected devices that enables tracking and identification of objects. Then, all this data is transferred to the cloud for storage and processing. Delivery speed suffers a lot, leading to transportation delays and customer dissatisfaction.

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