What Makes Adapt Ideations Different in the Changing Landscape

One of the common challenges experienced in logistics today is the ongoing use of analog channels. The challenge lies in the difficulty of being able to have accurate details of consignments and the need to be able to process orders efficiently. This is despite the presence and ready availability of omnipresent digital technologies today. Therefore this creates more opportunities for supply chain disruptions to occur and challenges experienced with manual processing. Not to mention the cost of buying hardware and managing countless numbers of assets that require a warehouse of their own to store. Quality control is lost due to manual overlay and gaps in oversight. What previously worked by underwriting loss through baked in costs does not translate to today’s increasingly critical demand and more complex global shipments. Analog technologies will not be able to keep up with the changing digital age and thus like the pager and cassette tape, will be added to the back pages of technology history.

Logistics companies offer their clients the ability to book specific pick-up and delivery times. This assists logistics companies to plan ahead and ensure they are able to meet their client’s needs and ensure deliveries can be made on time. As a general rule of thumb most logistics providers require scheduled bookings to be made at least twenty four hours in advance. The challenge is when changes to the pick-up and delivery time are required as it becomes difficult to cater to. This in turn presents as a challenge for logistics companies as the scheduled time booked becomes less flexible. This is even more redescent with life sciences and the cold chain where products have a shelf-life and a critical delivery window. If cold chain breaches occur they can leave pharmaceuticals unviable for use. This in turn may impact delivery as delays may be experienced due to re-shipping temperature-sensitive products. Delivery delays and product damage are only one aspect of the impact of cold chain breaches as a number of other issues may follow in consequence. Time is no longer simply money, it’s lives.

The importance of barcode recording and tracking cannot be underestimated. More than ever clients of logistics companies wish to be able to monitor and track their valuable goods while in transit. Manual barcode reading presents the challenge of transparency as near real-time data is becoming increasingly important particularly in BioPharma logistics. Temperature-sensitive products such as biopharmaceuticals are at high risk due to a number of factors including the cost of manufacturing the product, limits in quantity and the time-sensitivity of the product impacting the logistics journey. To simply ensure the viability of these temperature-sensitive pharmaceuticals they must be kept in specific environments to ensure that they remain within the correct conditions. 

Challenges associated with monitoring and logistics can also impact the products significantly in terms of costs and product losses. Conventional barcode scanning procedures have now become inefficient as they are time-consuming and are non-invasive compared to innovative monitoring solutions. While transporation systems can provide a sense of tracking for packages that are onboard a vehicle they are not able to provide near real-time data on a number of metrics. The IoT technology being adopted today is going to redefine this process and in due time will eradicate barcode reading all together. 

As transparency between logistics providers, their clients and other supply chain stakeholders increase the need for data to be easily shared between them, relying on manually sharing data as required can lead to incorrect recording of information. This issue is further amplified by the lack of qualified specialists. Due to incorrect recording of data, the supply chain can experience several difficulties including disruptions to delivery. This is the central theme to an end-to-end data share, a chain of custody of partners, to not only interact with each other off the same data but drive innovative solutions and reduce costs across the entire supply chain through all parties aligned. 

We solve all four critical questions above by offering unique IP that’s more than just near real-time IoT visibility at the source. It’s a jump from analog to digital, it’s a recalibration of time to manage, it’s a nullification of barcode technology that is outdated and manually intensive. Further, it is an end-to-end digital solution fully compliant and validated by the biopharma supply chain & aerospace sectors. We close the gaps in the supply chain and drive outcomes off near real-time decision making at the source.

We have also addressed the sustainability challenge of rising electronic waste caused by the single-use data loggers presently used by the biopharma industry – while we offer a range of single-use and reusable solutions we encourage our clients to consider utilizing our reusable solutions where possible. We are able to refurbish our devices which enables greater utilization of existing components in devices and assists in sustainability. 

Adapt Ideations plans to further disrupt the present supply chain technologies by introducing a pooling system for asset trackers enabling any supply chain actor to utilise asset trackers on demand without the hassle of reverse logistics and returning the same. This would enable entities to focus on the asset intelligence and data without investments in hardware and infrastructure. The use of our digital platform further reduces the need for paper trail and by utilizing a proprietary device pool that can refurbish single-use devices in a cycle preventing waste of components and cut costs to the client.

IoT devices allow data to be collected and transmitted from sensors, scalable cloud solutions, and networks. In essence, traditional supply chain models and patterns are becoming obsolete while operational efficiency is increased through the integration of IoT enabled solutions. Innovative solutions that enable data to be collected and communicated in near real-time assists in solving the challenge of lack of visibility throughout the supply chain. The result of this is greater supply chain optimization.