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Wireless solutions can help your Transport and Logistics business maximise connectivity and productivity with broad access to multiple applications and locations, providing real-time access to inventory, pricing and product information.
The advantage
We have developed business partner* relationships with established, best-of-breed Transport and Logistics wireless solution providers. Their solutions, coupled with IBM products and services, deliver cost-competitive, scalable and secure retail solutions for your business.
Next steps
Learn more about the broad range of IBM® and IBM Business Partner wireless solutions designed for the Transport and Logistics industry by contacting IBM Business Solution Specialist to discuss which solution best matches your business needs.  
Wireless solutions
IBM and Collective Intelligence

IBM® and Collective Intelligence Group provide off-the-shelf or custom solutions to suit any fleet management or fleet tracking requirement. They have decades of proven experience in delivering solutions for a wide range of purposes in different industries and operating environments.

The solution can remotely monitor anything, in any way, including plant and equipment, trucks and trailers, forklifts and store rooms. Their range of INCIGHT products will track, monitor, manage and report based on your key performance indicators while the flexibility of the INCIGHT equipment means they can easily tailor a solution to fit any business need with absolute flexibility.

IBM and BlackBay

IBM and BlackBay are working in partnership to deliver value based mobile solutions into the transport and logistics market. Our vision is to utilise the capabilities of mobile environment to provide visibility throughout the supply chain for organisations. This visibility can create opportunities for the business to enhance the service offerings whilst also lowering cost through the value chain. The primary benefit of our solutions is that they give operational management the tools to effectively improve their businesses. BlackBay is one of the major players in the mobile logistics arena with tens of thousands of support field based workers.

IBM and Bright Software

IBM and Bright Software Pty Ltd, a Premier IBM Business Partner, work in partnership to provide corporate and government organisations with Enterprise-class Mobility Solutions.

The Bright Mobility Suite – WebSphere® Enterprise Edition provides a flexible, highly scalable Enterprise Mobility Platform for delivering true enterprise application mobility. The Bright Mobility Suite provides a suite of products that design, deploy and manage tailored Mobile Applications, which are an extension of back-office enterprise data systems.

To allow organisations to rapidly address the mobility requirements of all company business units (e.g. Sales, Service, Asset and Facilities Management, Warehousing etc.) the Bright Mobility Suite delivers feature rich Mobility solutions specifically tailored to meet an organisations unique business requirements. Utilising IBM's acclaimed WebSphere J2EE Application Server platform also provides enhanced integration options when connecting to multiple back-office enterprise data sources thereby enabling true Enterprise Data Mobility.
IBM and Intergraph

IBM and Intergraph provide a solution for mobile resource management that can allow resources to be tracked and managed in real time. Our solution can help increase safety and security for transportation operators, and also improve efficiencies in the mobile workforce.

Our solution goes well beyond simple vehicle tracking software, by bringing together multiple sources of real-time location information for intelligent analysis, monitoring large numbers of mobile resources, and then alerting supervisors to changing conditions. It can also enable optimal job allocation by automatically selecting the most appropriate candidates according to various criteria, such as which are closest and have the capabilities required for the job.
IBM and Manhattan Associates

IBM and Manhattan Associates' Transportation Management solutions provide the tools you need to create an optimal long-term transportation strategy and to execute that through swift (and efficient) day-to-day operational tactics; by integrating transportation procurement, planning and execution.

'Transportation Planning and Execution' automates shipping, planning and resource assignment; 'Transportation Procurement' automates the transportation contract sourcing process; 'Load Management' can increase yard through-put and efficiency; and, Performance Management' tracks and disseminates Key Performance Indicators (KPI).

Our applications can also help you: construct optimal schedules, assist with compliance with Hours of Service regulations (driver and load); match drivers to the best possible loads; intelligently respond to load requests; assess the long term value of each lane and shipper; and, achieve maximum fuel-related savings.
IBM and Mid-Comp

Mid-Comp International Pty Ltd (founded in 1989) is a developer and supplier of Supply Chain Management (Odyssey), High Availability (Orion) and Systems Management (Snapshot/TSC) solutions to a client list containing the dominant Australian commercial enterprises as well as an impressive portfolio of major companies in over 26 countries. IBM and Odyssey offer the Transport industry the opportunity to embrace technology to drive more efficient processing and reduce costs throughout the transportation and distribution industry. Odyssey has been built from the ground up since the year 2000 utilising the latest in systems design and technology to deliver a transportation, service, warehousing, distribution and financials (accounting) solution encompassing the latest in EANway Scan Pack, EPC Global RFID, intranet and internet technologies. With an unlimited user license allowing integration and collaboration with business partners and customers worldwide, Odyssey extends your business anywhere in the world in real-time, to anyone who has an internet connection and a browser.

IBM and Omnix

IBM and Omnix offer an integrated Enterprise Transport Management Software solution - SmartMove. The modular solution includes integrated Transport, Storage, Fleet, Maintenance and Financial Management, and can enable business efficiency by reducing cost with electronic trading capabilities through e-Business, Graphical Dispatch and Mobile Workforce.

SmartMove can also incorporate a number of specialised modules and features including: Container; Pallet; DG (dangerous goods); Track and Trace; and, Imaging (proof of delivery) Management. Our solution has been used by customers in the courier, taxi trucks, pre-paid parcels/satchels, contract cartage, line-haul, bulk, express, DG and brokerage (3PL) industries.
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*'Business Partner' is used informally and does not imply a legal partnership.

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