At Werner, we are very active with industry and technical groups to keep current on emerging trends and technology. We’re leveraging these technologies to improve our customer experience and overall services.
The Internet of Things (IoT) may be a new term to many, but the concept isn’t new to progressive logistics and supply chain providers. Werner has leveraged IoT technologies for more than 20 years, managing assets, and collecting critical information to drive operational efficiency and meet growing customer needs. What is new about IoT is a broader recognition of the importance of these tools and the near-term potential. IoT investment is driving transformational innovation with an unprecedented effect on safety, environmental, and operational efficiencies. We’re already seeing an impact across the global supply chain. Leveraging IoT to manage assets, cargo, and processes will improve accuracy, safety, and efficiency that enables supply chain visibility at a new and exciting level.
Transportation and logistics service providers deal with large volumes of data and ever-changing market demands. Analytics and machine learning technologies are leveraging streaming data from IoT to transform decision-making and reinventing traditional supply chain processes. Customer and consumer demand for information is increasing exponentially as new e-business models like Amazon change the landscape for suppliers and consumers. Along with the data explosion, cloud computing and mobility are enabling new services and improving speed to market.
These technologies are fueling innovation. and Werner is leveraging IoT, mobile and big data solutions to harness the explosion of data associated with IoT, enabling descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics to improve services.