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Tips for VP of Logistics: Expand Supply Chain Visibility, Showcase Real-time Data, and Increase the Accountability of Your Operations

Acting as a VP of Logistics is no small task. You might sometimes feel like you're forced to make widely consequential decisions with limited data. Leveraging sensor-based logistics can help. Cargo Signal's IoT-powered sensors turn every shipment into a data point, providing end-to-end supply chain visibility and allowing you be more strategic in your management. 

 

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You may have a clear view of day-to-day operations within the four walls of your company, but what about outside?

Supply chains can be difficult to oversee in their entirety. As a VP of Logistics, people depend on your ability to ensure that all logistics are running according to plan. They also depend on your ability to showcase reliable information.

Cargo Signal provides the technology you need to see into the processes of your supply chain. When you transform each one of your shipments into data points, you have a bird’s eye view of your entire supply chain. Our easy-to-use platform allows you to view the real-time location, quality, and security of shipments moving through that supply chain, making it easy to identify efficiencies and deficiencies alike and demonstrate them to others. 

The Cargo Signal Solution

The IoT-powered sensors that Cargo Signal attaches to global freight track real-time data about shipments, providing end-to-end visibility, security, and quality control.

Our technology is supported by a Command Center staffed by logistics professionals who monitor your freight around the clock, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. If anything goes wrong with your shipment, Command Center will intervene on your behalf to solve the problem.

  • Customizable alerts allow you to receive updates on arrival & departure times, delay times, carrier route deviation & stationary times, cumulative & consecutive temperature, humidity, light exposure, shock & tilt, and more.
  • Our over 300 offices worldwide can connect you to local resources if a problem arises. 
  • Sensors require no reverse logistics.

Get the Data You Need to Achieve Full Supply Chain Visibility

Cargo Signal will monitor your shipments from end to end as they move through your supply chain, yielding crucial information about potential pain points and where improvements might be made to achieve a higher plane of security, resiliency, and efficiency.

With more accurate data on your side, your tactical teams will perform better, which will allow you to perform better and focus on more strategic matters like optimizing your cash cycle or revenue recognition processing.

Supply chains are fragile, and you can’t always plan on everything running smoothly. But you can plan on having the best tools at your disposal. 

Cargo Signal Can Help You:

  • Attain real-time end-to-end visibility of your supply chain, from the moment your freight ships to the moment it arrives at its destination.
  • Consolidate data about your supply chain logistics in one easy-to-use and presentable platform, backed by a team of logistics professionals operating 24/7, 365 days a year.
  • Locate and resolve pain points in your supply chain, with increased transparency of transportation and warehouse operations.

Contact Cargo Signal today so we can help you get the best picture of your supply chain and maintain awareness of operations that fall outside your immediate purview.