Challenges for wide spread acceptance – end user perspective:
Logistics industry leaders
• Non-availability of standards of the hardware. A bare minimum standard to ascertain product quality need to be arrived at.
has been a technology focussed Logistics venture. Whether it is GPS enabled vehicles or usage of mobility in managing inventory inside the warehouses, we give utmost importance to technology. We continuously add new dimensions to the overall scheme of things. Currently our focus is, ‘enhancing visibility on the move’. Through the usage of technology, we are looking at providing real time location details to clients.
• Relative high cost complying to minimum standard specifications: While there are different commercial offerings, inherently the hardware cost is a deterrent to wide spread roll out of the telematics solutions across the transportation and logistics. • Seamless integration: Each solution provider comes with specific offerings coupled with own hardware. It is essential that the software/ application becomes hardware independent to enable seamless integration of data flow between hardware and software provided by different suppliers. • GPS solutions as on date are more of transactional. The solution providers need to migrate to analytics – for both corrective and preventive measures – through predictive proactive alerts. • With “N” no. of hazards and on the road leading to road safety being a concern, GPS solutions need to be enablers for Journey risk assessment / management.
Vehicles Equipped with Tracking System
Vivek Arya Managing Director Rhenus Logistics India (P) Limited
Technologies and Ventures Vivek Arya : Technology will be one of the key differentiators in the logistics space. We believe in investing in all three on a continuous basis. For our contract logistics business, we have a Warehouse Management System including barcoding and latest equipment’s in all our warehouses. We have an E - Fleet Management system and a Track and Trace Module to closely track and monitor the movement of our fleet. All our vehicles are fitted with GPS. This enables complete control on cost and utilization of self-owned fleet. We also practice and monitor defensive driving through GPS. We are in process of upgrading our software for inbound collection and consolidation, used for supplier consolidation. This application will help in capturing each milestone like schedule, collection, consolidation till final delivery to buyer organisation, and also give visibility of events. Rajkumar S: Sequel uses GPS/GPRS based tracking devices to monitor fleets on a real-time basis and is working upon a variety of measures to ensure security and safety. Mansingh Jaswal: Genex Logistics
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Vivek Arya: Presently we have 200+ vehicles of our own and few more are being inducted in the current year. Apart from own fleet, Rhenus has good number of attached vehicles, working exclusively for Rhenus, thus improving fleet availability. All our company owned vehicles are fully equipped with GPS tracking systems, so this would be 100 %. We are also using portable GPS devices for on spot hired vehicles to ensure connectivity. Rajkumar S: Sequel operates with 150 dedicated vehicles in India. Sequel also owns and operates a small fleet of armoured vehicles in US and Europe and all of them are equipped with vehicle tracking systems. Mansingh Jaswal: Larger proportion of our fleet is long term leased. However, we plan to procure about 50 own vehicles this fiscal.
Benefits of Vehicle Tracking Systems Vivek Arya: GPS tracking is a necessity today and has a multi-faceted role to play. Apart from monitoring the movement of goods, it helps in better utilization of assets. It also helps in monitoring defensive driving and giving a complete visibility in the Supply Chain. Additional information like speed limits, number of driving hours, rapid acceleration/deceleration, detouring from route, unauthorised halting, traffic conditions etc are also www.telematicswire.net
