Track and Trace

Challenge: high coordination and localization requirements, additional process costs
Solution: tracking of “smart” containers at critical positions within the process chain and during transport, real-time overview, and data analyses
Benefits: potential savings in terms of throughput times, circulating assets, and container inventories; reduced time spent on searching and simpler cross-plant coordination

Challenge: lacking transparency regarding tool positions within the utilization process (cross-plant)
Solution: real-time tracking of tools in closed cycles including service providers
Benefits: transparent internal processes reduce time spent on searching, less processing and coordination required with suppliers, ROI < 1.5 years

Challenge: lacking information about expected arrival times as well as general tracking of rail cars and their whereabouts
Solution: rail cars with IoT devices and solar-based sensors, automatic detection of locations and standstills
Benefits: greater transparency and efficiency of the rail car fleet, more than 40% higher capacity utilization

Challenge: lack of robust evidence regarding the whereabouts of loading equipment, manual postings, time-consuming inventories
Solution: fitting of sensors to 4,000 containers and attachment of gateways, automatically generated real-time reports on inventories
Benefits: less time spent on manual searching, posting, and inventories; robust evidence prevents claims on the part of clients

Challenge: no means of tracking high-quality returnable containers, lacking transparency regarding delivery times
Solution: tracking of returnable containers and shipments across the entire network, including connection to customer infrastructure
Benefits: reduced losses and increased service life, automatic recording of transports and returnable containers

Challenge: purely manual processes that entail a high susceptibility to errors, no system support
Solution: gigitization of container management, system support for employees, simple target/actual reconciliation of the working stock
Benefits: asset status up on request, reduction of search efforts, lower investment in new returnable containers