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Supply Chain Tracking for the Automotive Industry - Automobile & Ground Transport
Asset tracking is becoming increasingly important for automotive manufacturers as they seek to improve visibility throughout their supply chains. By tracking assets, automotive manufacturers can identify the non-availability of parts and make decisions about alternative supply, expedited shipments, and changes to production schedules.
For example, automotive manufacturers have used asset tracking data to prioritize vehicles and configurations based on what parts they know are available. This has allowed automotive manufacturers to be more responsive to changes in the availability of parts, ensuring that production schedules can be maintained and that vehicles can be delivered to customers in a timely manner. In today’s competitive automotive market, supply chain visibility is essential for success, and asset tracking is a key part of achieving that visibility.
Radiant’s +18 years of experience with enterprise asset tracking has enabled us to design and develop innovative automotive supply chain asset tracking solutions. As well, Radiant’s software platform is technology-agnostic; it can process data from Passive RFID, Active RFID, BLE, GPS, barcode, NFC, and other tracking technologies. This allows our automotive clients to use a single system (rather than several particular technologies) to address a variety of item tracking challenges in many environments. As a result, Radiant’s automotive asset management customers immediately can:
- Quickly and accurately take inventory of assets across plants
- Keep track of returnable containers at a fraction of the cost of legacy systems
- Utilize BLE technology to create an infrastructure-free or infrastructure-lite automotive asset managemenet solutions
- Decrease downtime and loss of productivity due to lost returnable containers
- Maximize safety and security for their plant employees
Without Radiant’s automotive asset tracking software and solutions, automotive manufacturers risk:
- Damage, loss, or theft of returnable containers
- Automotive assets going missing because they do not have a real-time asset inventory
- Increase in manufacturing plant labor costs related to finding and allocating assets
- Shipment delays due to container shortages
- Scavenger hunting for parts
- Excess freight cost due to poorly managed returns
- Lack of visibility of inventory, packaging, and assets
- Excess inventory being carried to protect customer production
- Putting the safety and health of their manufacturing plant employees at risk