article thumbnail

Logistics Technologies: 4 Benefits of RFID, AIDC, and IoT Based Technologies to Shippers

GlobalTranz

The supply chain is playing host to emerging logistics technologies and modern marvels of an industrialized society. 4 Benefits of Using These Logistics Technologies. Each of these logistics technologies provides a benefit that meets the demands of its respective driving forces. Better Visibility.

RFID 58
article thumbnail

Testing times

Automotive Logistics

Vehicle-makers will have to publish WLTP-measured fuel consumption figures for all new vehicles from January 1 2019 and will be required to meet stringent new CO 2 emissions targets 12 months later. Industry analyst IHS Markit says carmakers failing to meet the 2021 targets could be fined more than €14 billion ($16.1

article thumbnail

Emergency response: Weathering the storms

Automotive Logistics

At Ford, for example, Bong points to the use of a sophisticated forecasting, monitoring and action tool that the company started using several years ago, which maps and monitors every node in the supply chain. “The The problem is that, whilst logistics chains have evolved, the insurance risk assessments sometimes lag behind.”.