Asset management for transport operators
GLOBAL supply chain software company Viewlocity and mobile track and trace solutions company Blackbay have partnered to offer fleet asset management solutions.
Viewlocity managing director Fadi Geha said that making the best use of fleet assets was becoming more and more critical to companies carrying transport assets and costs.
The partnered solutions are available to assist organisations maintaining fleets of any kind, including cars, trucks, containers, chassis, railers and ULDs, to track, manage and optimise fleet performance.
“Understanding and addressing the reasons for poor asset performance is the single biggest operations imperative for any fleet owner,” Mr Geha said.
“As supply chains become more complex and material flows increase, supply chain assets are in danger of becoming bottlenecks, leading to equipment scarcity and supply chain chaos. Transport operators trying to move goods during peak seasons understand this well.”
Fleet operators have a continual challenge to position their assets optimally to keep fleet sizes aligned with business objectives.
“Many companies struggle to track their mobile assets. Unfortunately, if you don’t know where your assets are at any point, at best you can achieve low utilisation of those potentially costly assets,” Fadi Geha said.
Viewlocity’s event management software, combined with Blackbay’s track and trace software allows fleet owners to rapidly understand and respond to supply chain disruptions and improves return on investment.
Mr Geha said that increasing RFID adoption would transform supply chains over the next few years.
“Companies should start looking now at the full picture of how RFID technology can impact their business and the supply chain they participate in.
“Anecdotal evidence suggests that RFID can multiply organisational data by 10 to 100 times. Most businesses are underprepared to handle such a massive increase in data, leaving them unable to profit in a business process context,” Mr Geha said.
“Now that RFID is beyond the initial hype-phase, companies can take a maturing approach to the needed systems and business processes, prior to implementing and seeing the benefits of RFID,” he added.
16-Aug-2006