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Gefco is a Logistics company with 21 affiliates worldwide. Turnover of 3,200 million; 60,000 shipments daily; 3,2 million vehicles transported annually; 9,897employees around the world.

question

How could Gefco improve the way it tracked deliveries throughout Europe to optimize the efficiency of it's lorry fleet, and secure freight and personnel?

answer

Orange Business Services designed a solution with an on-board appliance that integrates a Global Positioning System (GPS) and a GPRS modem to send location information every 15 minutes to a hosted server. The 'plug and play' appliance has been specially designed for the lorries chartered by GEFCO and the removable tool can be connected to the cigarette lighter.

results

The solution has three key benefits. Firstly, no upfront investment or implementation fees were required and the M2M solution is priced at a fixed monthly charge per appliance. Secondly, GEFCO is able to minimize missing deliveries as they can now accurately track each delivery. And finally the solution allows GEFCO to optimize its business and create even greater efficiences. Thanks to GPS positioning, GEFCO can change any shipment's route at any time, in order to meet new customer requirements or contingencies.

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