July - 2016 - issue > CXO INSIGHT
IoT in Logistics: A Necessity
Deepak Sharma
Global IT Director-Agility
Agility, one of the world's leading providers of integrated logistics, successfully rolled out their latest app Agility Scan. The app allows all parties to scan documents during execution of a shipment, making these immediately available to the customer. This is especially useful in emerging markets where the availability of the Internet is fragmented.
In the logistics world the timeliness of the document is extremely important. Since in many cases the next step of the work flow are dependent in receiving the document on time. The document is immediately transmitted to Agility, meta-data is captured and the document stored in our imaging system repository. The system even automatically emails the document to the customer if needed. All of this happens within 1 to 2 minutes of a scan!
Compare this to the age-old process of employees having to wait until they reach the office to scan and upload documents. An employee can even email a document from their phone and it will be processed and stored into the imaging system making it accessible to colleagues and customers.
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