The full-service provider Hellmann Worldwide Logistics is launching SmartAir!, a new tracking tool for the real-time tracking of air freight shipments.
Together with the Bonn-based start-up BlueBox Systems, Hellmann has developed a web-based platform that provides customers with an at-a-glance provides comprehensive information on its air freight shipments, regardless of airline, route or shipment type. With this innovation, Hellmann is closing a gap in the live tracking of shipments in times of increasingly tightly synchronised flows of goods in global supply chains.
Based on GPS coordinates, SmartAir! provides information on all stopovers and loading times for live tracking of consignments. The system also offers Numerous analysis options on the performance of individual airlines, routes and airports. At which departure airport are there the fewest delays? Which airlines deliver the most reliably? This information makes it possible to quickly and easily evaluate providers and routes, thus creating the basis for optimising supply chain management.
Customised tracking solutions
This completes Hellmann's Product range for shipment tracking and can now offer a customised tracking solution for every mode of transport. This includes Smart Ocean for sea freight, SmartAir! for air freight and the universally applicable Smart visibility tracker. In addition to tracking data, these record extensive information on humidity, temperature, incidence of light, vibrations and door opening, thus enabling detailed transport monitoring of the consignments.
„SmartAir! is a real novelty in the tracking of air freight shipments that has never been seen on the market before. In times of digitalisation and ever smaller time windows for decisions, quickly available real-time data is becoming increasingly important within global supply chains. This will also be particularly relevant for the upcoming distribution of Covid-19 vaccines.“ Henning Pottharst, Product Manager Smart Visibility, Hellmann Worldwide Logistics.
Source: Hellmann
