Introduction
With the rapid development of global manufacturing and the implementation of carbon tariffs, more and more companies are adopting circular packaging in the logistics and transportation process to reduce costs and improve operating efficiency while ensuring sustainable development. But at the same time, corresponding to disposable packaging, the adoption of circular packaging also brings additional issues such as empty box management and flow tracking.
Details
With the rapid development of global manufacturing and the implementation of carbon tariffs, more and more companies are adopting circular packaging in the logistics and transportation process to reduce costs and improve operating efficiency while ensuring sustainable development. But at the same time, corresponding to disposable packaging, the adoption of circular packaging also brings additional issues such as empty box management and flow tracking.
Between Continental's production base and suppliers' warehouses, inventory and circulation control of recycling packaging is still mainly through visual management and offline reconciliation. This process is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and it is extremely difficult to trace the source of any discrepancies found during each reconciliation.
In order to solve this problem, mainland China is actively trying to use IoT technology to optimize management processes and improve management efficiency. ZETag cloud tags are installed on the hoarding boxes to realize online management of recycling packaging through Internet of Things technology. The system can automatically record the receipt and delivery of recycling packaging and real-time inventory levels without manual participation.
At the same time, the offline running accounts will be moved online, the original running accounts will be maintained, and real-time data obtained by the Internet of Things technology will be used for automatic reconciliation. Once an abnormal account occurs, the system will automatically generate an early warning as soon as possible to remind the packaging management personnel to intervene in time, quickly discover the root cause of the abnormality, and maintain stable matching of accounts.
ZETag cloud tag is a low-power IoT sensor tag independently developed by Zongxing Technology for the management of recycling packaging equipment. It can continue to work for several years when powered by a button battery. Paired with a professionally designed asset management platform, it can provide automatic inventory counting, inventory analysis, circulation statistics, CT analysis, receipt and delivery reconciliation and other functions for upstream and downstream circulation packaging.
Continental's attempts to innovate in recycling packaging management are not only to reform the traditional logistics asset management process, reduce costs and increase efficiency, but also explore more possibilities for lean management of recycling packaging in the future. Both parties will continue to explore more applications of IoT technology in the field of supply chain management, and truly promote the implementation of digitalization to help enterprises reduce costs and increase efficiency.
