Transportation of refrigerated goods

Temperature-controlled transports: cold and cool chain

There are many players involved in temperature-controlled transport: the transporter, warehouse operators, points of sale and the company’s headquarters. If the company does not have the right tools, it is easy to create confusion and consequently inefficiency among the various players involved.

The Client

It is a large cooperative of independent entrepreneurs transporting goods throughout Italy. The sales points of these companies are located in the central area of the Peninsula: Tuscany, Lazio, Liguria and Sardinia. This type of cooperative has always been very careful to meet the needs of every member company. For this reason, in order to increase the efficiency of all activities and to monitor each stage of the controlled temperature transport, the Client started to use the YouWorkForce solution, shaped on its needs.

How did the transport activity improve thanks to YouWorkForce?

Among its main features, YouWorkForce includes travel planning in every detail: with the creation of stages and the optimization management of the goods loading/unloading. Obviously, a focal point of YouWorkForce is the constant monitoring of the temperature inside the vehicle, from the starting point to the point of sale: the purpose is to minimize the risk of returns and consequently, new expenses to be faced. In this regard, the application allows monitoring in real time, through sensors, the temperature inside the vehicle.

Through a specific functionality, alarms are generated due to abnormal conditions such as temperature rise or the presence of open doors. Through the operational center available via web it is possible to display on a map the position of the vehicles and all the information related to the alarms, allowing an optimal management of non-compliant situations.

The carrier, once reached the destination, can unload the goods and manage the bureaucratic operations through acceptance signatures directly from smart-phone.

YouCo, therefore, developed complete strategy that allows computerizing the flows and speeding up activities. This allowed an optimization of costs and delivery times, significantly improving the transport process, from the starting branch up to the point of sale.

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