Transporting ice-cream and chocolates, both very high value-for-weight products has always been challenging. The smallest deviation in temperature during storage or transport alters the flavour, texture, feel and shape and directly impacts the sellability of these products.

While ice-cream producers are sensitive to temperature discipline, chocolatiers rarely pay attention to their supply chains. As any ice-cream marketeer would be happy to tell them, a melted or softened and re-formed product loses its shape, texture and taste; also the customer. We already know that bad taste, texture and feel directly translate to a bad brand image!

The Cold Chain that gets information and makes decisions from collected or collated data is an ancient, pre-historic relic! Data logging or just periodic transmission of data simply does not work – it’s all post mortem. 

Managers who skimp on a 360 degree Supply Chain Visibility system cause their companies to lose millions every year in rejected and unsold goods and lost customers.

No one likes to eat melted and re-solidified chocolate or ice-cream – it simply tastes off. The temperature of the product needs to be monitored at a minimum 2-minute resolution throughout its post-production storage, transport and distribution. In fact, the monitoring must be extended to all the retail points-of-purchase to fully capture the delivery of the targetted ‘taste and texture’ customer-experience.

Some Cold Chain teams seem to believe that if the product crosses their threshold, it becomes someone else’s problem. Some managers tend to justify this poor show with various excuses like lack of corporate commitment, or one says that if the ice-cream doesn’t melt when its carried home from the store, why would it matter if the temperature spiked for some time during shipment or storage.

On the contrary, it matters – and in fact, the company’s leadership KRAs are directly linked to the performance of its Cold Chain.

The key to risk mitigation and minimal losses is to implement a single window, Enterprise-Wide, Cold Chain Measurement and Monitoring System – a Control Tower.

Such a system would typically include:

1. Dashboards for a single, high-level view
2. Rule-based alerts and alarms
3. Escalation matrices for unattended alarms
4. Drill-down granular reports to sensor and minute levels
5. Contractor, trip and delivery SLA management
6. Integration with your SAP/ JDE/ ERP
7. Hi frequency, live temperature data

A reliable and effective choice of a Cold Chain Technology Service Provider would be based on:

1. 5 Years in the same business
2. Market References (Of course!)
3. In-house technology (avoid system integrators)
4. 2-minute resolution for LIVE temperature sensor data
5. Control Tower Reports and Dashboards

A great Cold Chain Visibility solution will save many man-years of management time as well as millions in saved cargo and retained customers. You need lead indicators that let you take actions to mitigate adverse situations.

If you are fed-up with rejections at the delivery end, if your data loggers give you information that is too little, too late, and if your write-offs are approaching dangerous levels, then

You need a system that alerts you before the problem, tells you what’s about to happen that shouldn’t, and what’s not happening that should!

A great Cold Chain Visibility solution will save many man-years of management time as well as millions in saved cargo and retained customers. It will give your brand consistent quality in terms of customer experience, especially in the one that matters – great taste!

Covid-19 has brought with it a significant change to the way people have lived in the past. You would be frightened to see someone not wearing a mask or using a hand-sanitizer. A lot of money is being spent to desperately find a vaccine.

Just around a week or so ago, two cities in China found traces of the new coronavirus in cargoes of imported frozen food, Shenzhen local authorities said on 13th August in a briefing, although the World Health Organization downplayed the risk of the virus entering the food chain. The risk and uncertainty still remain whether Coronavirus can be spread through and into the food chain too.

It’s debatable whether coronavirus can be spread through frozen foods or not but there are few other viruses that do get spread and remain in the frozen foods. Viruses can survive up to two years at temperatures of -20C, directly affecting your Cold Chain.

There is one other microorganism that needs attention and most definitely spreads through the Cold Chain – Salmonella!

• Salmonella is part of a group of bacteria causing salmonellosis. Commonly found infecting frozen meats, it is also very prevalent in eggs.
• Salmonella contaminates frozen foods in the supply chain when there is a rise in the temperature during storage or transport.
• Warmer weather and unrefrigerated foods create ideal conditions for Salmonella to grow. Symptoms of Salmonella usually appear 6 hours to 6 days after consuming contaminated food – diarrhea, fever, and stomach cramps. 

The other microorganism that you need to be worried about which can cause problems for you in the supply chain is Norovirus.

• Norovirus is a very contagious virus that causes vomiting and diarrhea. Food, drinks, and surfaces can become contaminated with Norovirus.
• Norovirus contaminates fresh produce, shellfish, ice, fruit, and ready-to-eat foods.
• Anybody can be sick from this virus but the illness can be really severe for young children and older adults.

The slightest rise in temperature can make your entire shipment suspect – you simply cannot afford that! You need to track your temperature every minute.

The Fleetview Control Tower covers your imperative, non-negotiable needs to manage your Cold Chain effectively:

• A control tower to alert you to possible vulnerable situations, with alarms and dashboards
• Monitor temperature minute-by-minute across your supply chain
• Complete incident management and response platform
• Full compliance and process audit trails

In today’s environment, you need to not only comply with FDA regulations, you need to demonstrate that you have done so!

An end-to-end visibility solution like FleetView gives you complete control over your Cold Chain – a tool that is indispensable for effective operations today.

Fleet management is the function that regulates, organizes, and facilitates different transport and transport related activities.  It underpins and provides support for all transport activities through apt asset management. SMEs intending to expand in future would not possess the capacity to comprehend the significance of fleet management. A successful fleet management goes for reducing overall costs and savvy usage of assets, for example, vehicles, fuel, spare parts, and so forth.

Let us give you an example to understand better, if you were a transport company, and you had £3million worth of fleet vehicles, you’d make sure they were well-oiled and maintained and the people operating them knew what they were doing and that everyone was safe. You’d keep investing in that, you’d keep making sure you were keeping your production costs down; actually it’s no different everywhere. Keeping that in mind the question boils down to what are the essentials to have fleet management?

Vehicle Management

Problems always occur when you least expect them, vehicles likewise exhibit their own logistical problems. Consistent maintenance schedule is essential, if the driver, ever, gets hurt due to improper maintenance, one cannot even fathom the massive costs and personal injury suits to the business. While good maintenance of the vehicle adds extra costs, they will be more secure and perform to their most extreme potential.

Cost reduction and Risk management

Risk and Cost are usually synonymous in accidental scenarios. Reduction in costs and risk together is the essential objective of every fleet management company. Driving down expenses however much as could reasonably be expected, maintaining proficiency and wellbeing benchmarks is fundamental for each fleet. Up keep of vehicles increases fuel efficiency and reduces any risk attached to the vehicle. One shouldn’t overestimate risks while getting to a point of reducing costs, a balance needs to be achieved.

Driver Management

The main impetus of fleet management are the drivers, and overseeing them is equally essential. A precise driver profile containing their driving records, experience, and their qualifications can be handy in emergency. Few vehicles require exceptional qualifications, for instance, trucks, hazardous materials transport vehicles, liquid transport etc. Psychological profiles indicate driving habits, likelihood of taking breaks, and their temperament which can be used for verifications and quality control. Drivers additionally require sensible measures of resting time, and exact sleeping patterns to be alert while driving.

Fuel Management

Fuel being an unconventional and expensive resource, demands cautious utilization. Planning routes where the fleet is its most proficient will result in fuel saving and faster delivery. Fuel cards can be used in fleet management for accounting fuel. Reducing costs, using fuel efficiently, reducing security and management risk are advantages which companies benefit from effective fuel management.

Route and Speed management

Cargo and vehicle type plays a very important role as the government imposes speed limits accordingly. Hazardous cargo and large vehicles can cause a greater damage, hence the speed restrictions in such situations can be a bit more stringent. Route planning needs to be collated under all circumstances. Time in fleet management is directly proportional to money involved, fastest and safest courses are planned for effective use of the resources.

Business owners are very skeptical about business efficiencies like customer service efficiency, financial efficiency, and logistical efficiency, whereas on the other hand fleet management is identified as extremely vital. Fleet managers in transport companies take on responsibilities in improving the overall performance of the business. Fleet management can be expensive, besides inadequate knowledge can add on to damaging factors. FleetView expects to catch the most pertinent information from fleet management to set benchmarks for checking performance and along these lines impact positive changes expanding productivity. At Fleetview we believe in anticipating situations and taking appropriate measures accordingly.

GPS tracking is not “new” a concept. It has been utilized by dynamic fleet owners for a considerable length of time. Early adopters of GPS innovation have given their organizations an edge over the contenders. As a result of its prompt unmistakable advantages, GPS tracking has rapidly gone mainstream. While people use GPS for regular purposes, business managers exploit fleet GPS keeping in mind the end goal to streamline the transportation procedure and, as a result, to spare cash. At Fleet view, we intend to catch the most applicable information from these three essential segments of fleet administration to set benchmarks for monitoring performance and in this manner impact positive changes to increase profitability.

Here are a few reasons, we at Fleetview believe that a comprehensive GPS softwarewill enable you to take care of our fleet vehicles so as for you to calm down your senses.

Live tracking

Since GPS following frameworks utilize satellites that ceaselessly communicate signals, the data obtained is real time, paying no heed to climatic conditions. It enables you to know the correct position of every vehicle at any time. You can track your fleet, if the vehicle is running or not, whether on the right track, etc. Dispatchers can have a review of the running vehicles and can coordinate with the vehicle which is nearest to the proposed address.

Theft

Security concerns can be mitigated and insurance costs reduced with fleet GPS tracking. Similarly like cell phone tracking, in the event that it’s lost or stolen, some vehicle tracking systems utilize the GPS technology to track the vehicles on the off chance that they get stolen or lost. Organizations that invest a considerable measure in large fleet require security against robberies. Few frameworks have the choice for remote control, cautions and warnings if the GPS tracker finds the vehicle outside the planned course.FleetView’s Route map pro brings about constant live location tracking to ease in the travel plan.

Risk Management

With a GPS tracker, you can, without much of a stretch,monitor the speed of the running vehicles in your fleet. This can guarantee that your staff isn’t driving too fast or too slow. GPS tracking enables to maintain a strategic fuel management and consequently undesired additional fuel costs. Besides, lack of respect of speed limits may prompt fines and accidents in the most pessimistic scenario. Fleet views risk management helps to anticipate the said risks and try to mitigate it before the journey begins. GPS monitoring enables insurance companies with accurate data in regards of any mishap.

Performance Measure

For transport and freight related companies, it is important to have data about the exact time of exit and entry of the vehicles, so they can effectively plan and utilize the workforce ideally. On account of GPS tracking, customers can be educated in precise terms when a sent cargo or package is delivered by carrier services at the booked site. Knowing the correct driving hours of your driver can help you in assessing their proficiency and performance, which would then be able to bring about higher paychecks.

Report Analysis

With GPS trackingand real time updates, you also have access to backup data of your corporate fleet. Driven distance and time spent, number of finished tasks, number of stops and the driving speed are recorded through GPS. Contingent upon the sort of GPS tracker, you can approach a wide range of data about how the vehicle is used. This information are to a great degree supportive for asset arranging, driving improvement and time plan administration. You can send out the information and make charts and examine, which will help your team to have a wide review of the fleet performance.

Keeping in mind the above mentioned factors, GPS tracking not only proves itself to be resourceful but also brings about effective utilization of resources. Fleetview’s primary vision to have a safe journey for the driver, vehicle, and the goods is not only overlooked by GPS but also with their integrated systems which enables you to link it with your ERP software. With all the advancements in Driver management, Vehicle management and Risk factors relieved, one can concentrate on improving and expanding the business in near future.

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Transworld’s Mobile Eye Device, will now do all this and much more. It’s the perfect example to the quote, ‘Big things come in small packages’. It’s the size of a palm but functions like a beast. It goes beyond tracking trucks and drivers. Road safety being the topmost priority for several large corporations, Transworld comes to the rescue!
With its attachment to a server, obtaining, filtering and analysing data has become a piece of cake. Fleet owners can now be at peace and still be productive as work, only with Transworld!

Check out how Vikram Puri explains the creation of Transworld and his vision for it, right here-

With Transworld’s BOLT (Battle Online Tracking System), destroying the Enemy just got easier, shares Mr. Vikram Puri, MD, Transworld Compressor Technologies Limited.

Transworld, has made its way through Indian Army’s Northern Command Wing and has passed with flying colours. BOLT will now aid tracking every tank and truck on the field. Communication with troops, refuelling their needs and logistics support will all garner the incomparable benefits of BOLT.

Replacing age-old and time-consuming manual efforts to track and communicate with on-field troops with online platforms, is an achievement like no other and Transworld is proud to present it.

Find here detailed summary of BOLT in the Indian Army

Covering an array of issues and shortcomings in the ever-so necessary transport world, Transworld slays with its power and efficiency. Be it analytics, road safety, failure assessments or precautionary measures, Transworld will do it all. “Reasonably priced, extremely effective and technologically way ahead of its times, Transworld has paved its way through corporates in the private sector to leading Militaries of the world”, quips Mr. Puri, MD, Transworld.

You can go over his views, thoughts and plans for Transworld, here:-
CV Magazine Aug 2008