Telematics for “Just-in-Sequence” manufacturing

News 30 Nov 2016 by WCN Editorial

GateHouse Logistics and Schmitz Cargobull Telematics in agreement with Magna International for real-time parts tracking.

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The three companies will work together to set up a “Long Distance Just in Sequence (LD-JIS)” tracking solution to support Magna's Steyr facility in Graz, Austria.

LD-JIS is tool for managing supply chains to support complex manufacturing like auto production. As Gatehouse and Schmitz neatly summarise: “As cars become more customized, LD-JIS-based production enables carmakers to have the right parts at precisely the right time. They need the right GPS, mirrors, doors, engines, whatever, delivered at a precise moment in the production chain to ensure that large buffer inventories are no longer an option.”

As part of the project over 300 trucks with trailers will be fitted with Schmitz Cargobull Telematics. These will provide data to GateHouse Logistics’ “ghTrack data unifying technology” to give Magna a single tower view of all parts in transit to its factory in Graz, Austria. At the data integration level, GateHouse’s unified data stream technology will be integrated into the Magna Steyr enterprise planning system. The project will be fully operational by Spring 2017.

Schmitz Cargobull Telematics, a 100% subsidiary of Schmitz Cargobull AG, is one of the leaders in European trailer telematics, and is one of the suppliers recently identified by Berg Insight as having 25,000-50,000 active trailer deployments.

Karl-Heinz Neu, Managing Director of Schmitz Cargobull Telematics, said: "Schmitz Cargobull Telematics has been leading the trailer telematics market for the past decade and this LD-JIS project with such key industry players as Magna and Gatehouse enables all three companies to bring unprecedented efficiencies to such an important sector of business activity. And this will be a representative project for the JIS”.

"All industries today need more data transparency in the supply chain and the success of this LD-JIS project depends entirely upon Magna having total control and visibility over what parts are in transit and when they will arrive," said Jesper Bennike, CEO, GateHouse Logistics. "GateHouse's ghTrack technology will give their planners one efficient data stream of parts in transit to the factory and will help them to work faster and better.”