The world of chocolate supply chain is bittersweet, just the way chocolate connoisseurs like their chocolates. The journey of a chocolate involves everything right from transporting and processing cocoa to production and further transportation to retailers and then customers worldwide. Any chocolate supply chain professional would know how complicated it can get when even local fresh produce sometimes seems tricky to manage. Let us explore the story of how a well-known chocolate and confectionary giant optimized its chocolate supply chain — how real-time visibility empowered them to locate an ..read more

One of the world's largest in revenue, the global automotive industry is an ever-shifting landscape that experiences changing trends each day. While the highly volatile market faces more automotive supply chain challenges due to increasing globalization, recent happenings have shaken the demand-supply equilibrium even more. As asset and inventory tracking moved from barcodes to RFID tags to BLE beacons to GPS-based automotive supply chain tracking systems, the automotive sector has come a long way from manual track and trace. Real-time visibility, even though relatively new, has brought a rea ..read more

Ice cream — the one of the world's most-loved desserts — is best served when it is frosty cold. To keep the favorite dessert in its best shape and flavor, ice cream supply chains across the globe push to keep up with quality compliance. But, with the ever-increasing communication gap and unavailability of clean data in ice cream supply chains, are they able to deliver on the promise of quality? Well, one of the world's leading ice cream makers is making it possible with Roambee. Read on to find out how ..read more

Supply chains are difficult; pharma supply chains are even more difficult. But the recent pandemic era has taught us that the most essential thing is better medical asset tracking — transporting the right medical equipment, at the right time, to the right place and people. Nothing is more critical than an oxygen cylinder when a patient struggles to breathe or a perfectly functioning patient monitor when a patient has had a heart attack. The urgency of the requirement itself makes medical asset tracking one of the most essential and challenging tasks to handle in healthcare supply chains. Let ..read more

The automotive spare parts industry is a highly competitive domain. Spare parts manufacturers, vendors, and suppliers are continually battling unclear demand signal, demand-supply fluctuations, and friction in the automotive supply chain. More importantly, if you misread demand signals, your operation might be prone to losing sales to your competitors or incur additional costs.  In all of this, a next-generation inventory management system — backed by real-time visibility — has a lot to offer in terms of supply chain optimization duties, especially in obtaining accurate demand ..read more

Intermodal shipments are advancing at a dizzying pace, and so is shipment monitoring technology. The industry has taken three distinct approaches to intermodal shipment tracking, namely carrier data aggregation approach, IoT sensor approach, and a blended ‘sensor + non-sensor’ platform approach. Let’s explore how these three approaches address intermodal shipment tracking. Learn about the level of visibility that each of these approaches offers to enable you to achieve On-Time In-Full (OTIF) deliveries and cold chain compliance in multimodal shipping across road, rail, air, or ocean ..read more

The automotive spare parts industry is a highly competitive domain. Spare parts manufacturers, vendors, and suppliers are continually battling demand-supply fluctuations, unclear demand signals, and friction in the automotive supply chain. More importantly, if you misread demand signals, your operation might be prone to losing sales to your competitors or incur additional costs. In all of this, a next-generation inventory management system — backed by real-time visibility — has a lot to offer in terms of supply chain optimization duties. Roambee regularly engages with automotive supply chain ..read more

The ultimate goal of any pharma company is patient well-being, which it cannot achieve without a tight, lean, and reliable pharma cold chain. When dealing with vaccines for epidemics like the Coronavirus, the pharma cold chain logistics must be planned to maintain a balance between the vaccine reaching safely and on time. Now that the COVID-19 vaccine is here, the objective is to keep it safe and intact through the last mile of its journey and incorporate these best practices to gain control over general vaccine supply chains for human and animal health. Let’s look at how a vaccine travels in ..read more

Just as COVID-19 vaccine distribution efforts began helping the global economy emerge from the economic impact of the pandemic, the Suez Canal disruption hit. Now that the Canal is open again, the global supply chain is adjusting to yet another “black swan” event – and recognizing the need for end-to-end supply chain visibility ..read more

Shipping a consignment, no matter what is being shipped, always has an element of risk. If your shipment contains pharmaceutical goods, the risk is increased as pharma shipments are more prone to damage, theft, or tampering in transit and pharma track and trace systems are not helping either. The moment you hand your goods over to someone else, you lose control of the way it is handled from first mile through the last mile. Tracking your shipment using different technologies has come in handy over the years to curb the risk, but only to a level, and when you are dealing with pharma track and ..read more