Supply Chain Tracking for the Automotive Industry
End-to-end global real-time asset tracking for the world’s largest auto manufacturers, incorporating multiple advanced tracking technologies into infrastructure-free, low-effort solutions.
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.
In North America alone, the automotive industry spends more than $750 million annually to cover the issues related to using reusable racks and totes. –AIAG
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 management 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
“Lost returnable containers will continue to cause supply chain downtime and loss of productivity unless an adequate system can be introduced to gain visibility of and control their whereabouts better.”– AIAG
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We provide multiple solutions for automotive customers, so they can always answer “where is it?” and “how is it?” Our automotive solutions include:
- Fixed & Physical Asset Management Solutions for the Automotive Industry: Our state-of-the-art fixed asset management system ensures that you always know exactly where your supply chain assets are located and report on them in real-time. With Radiant, you’ll enjoy increased efficiency, reduced labor costs, and peace of mind knowing that your fiduciary responsibility is covered with our automotive asset management solutions.
- Life Safety Solutions for Automotive: With Radiant’s plant life safety solutions, you can be sure that your people are always safe. With our evacuation plan enforcement and testing, we can help you ensure that everyone knows what to do in an emergency. Our contact tracing capabilities allow you to know who was where and when so that you can quickly identify any potential problems. And our social distancing technologies help keep plant employees safe while they’re working. With Radiant, you can rest assured that your automotive plant is always safe.
“Within one to two minutes, my operators can tell where tools are by using the Bluetooth beacons…The bars on the app become smaller or larger depending on how close the beacon is to the phone.”
– Bridget Grewal, Magna International
Automotive Logistics: “The quest for greater unity” (2019)
Are your automotive plants ready to:
- Automatically monitor and manage assets?
- Reduce the labor required for cycle counts?
- Improve the accountability of supply chain partners?
- Increase productivity of your automotive manufacturing facilities?
- Ensure worker safety?
If you answered “yes” to any of the above and want to learn more about our fixed asset tracking solutions or life safety solutions, please contact us or request a demo.
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