Cool Chain Monitoring

The introduction of systems for the complete monitoring of cool chains is one of the challenges which ranks within many branches very high on the agenda. Typically, check points get located in cool chains wherever product liability limits get physically transcended or where goods get stored for a longer period of time, i.e., in warehouses and salerooms as well as on loading ramps, where producers hand over goods to logistics service providers and/or recipients receive goods from logistics service providers.

By means of RFID-transponders which are equipped with the necessary sensor technology, data can get documented during the entire transport process up to the delivery and storage at the final destination and these data can be transferred at any desired time interval to the solution transport management for evaluation. Thus, data about temperature changes can also be monitored Online in order to ensure an in-time escalation management. As soon as transponder data indicate a critical status of the products in the cool chain the escalation management reacts. Here the high degree of cross-linking between all supply chain partners which gets ensured by the logistics-server® plays an important role. The system can, for example, delimit the different spheres of responsibility within the cool chain and thus directly inform the correct supply chain partner who is responsible for the trouble shooting. The actual driving routes can be tracked in GoogleEarth decidedly in the same way as this is also possible with the Shipment Localisation Kit for the Online shipment tracki