GPS Tracking

The Impact of Technology is Staggering

From Manufacturer to Retailer/Customer GPS Helps

When we write about GPS Tracking and how it is making great strides in assisting fleet and freight operations, we often forget that technology is being deployed from beginning to end.  This not only helps get product from point A to point B, but it keeps costs in check.

From Beginning to End

Global supply chain management has several important parts.  The first is the manufacturing part.  Technological advances here have helped to better monitor product as it is being made.  RFID plays a major role here as does a real time ERP program and technologies like wireless RF systems.

Manufacturing is a business that is now viewed and managed in small chunks, instead of long, drawn-out procedures with few checks along the way.  This also helps manufacturers to locate problems and make changes on the fly.  Never before has manufacturing been able to run operations with this type of minute control. (more…)

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Something fishy is going on in the refuse department in Vadodara, India.

An internal investigation by the city’s governing council, the Vadodara Municipal Corporation, (VMC) seems to indicate that the independent contractors hired to do garbage pickup are padding their wallets by weighing down their loads. The fleet management supervisor proposes to install GPS tracking systems on municipal trucks in an effort to solve the problem.

Vadodara is one of the biggest cities in the Indian state of Guyjarat. It has a population estimated at 1.6 million, and a high industrial base, mostly in chemicals and pharmaceuticals. Garbage pickup is a high priority service in such a densely-populated area. Residents and business owners are not pleased when garbage day passes and their receptacles go untouched. (more…)