Smarter supply chains

Logistics technology 

Linfox has harnessed industry-leading technology to transform the way we schedule and track freight movements.

Our smart transport technology suite monitors and optimises transport networks in real-time, using data from connected devices and systems.

This addresses potential challenges as they arise and ensures the delivery of goods to our customers and their customers – safely and on time.

FoxTrax: Smart Fox

Linfox’s tracking technology is a critical element in the Digital Freight Network. The system provides a two-way messaging facility that alerts drivers to impacts on delivery schedules, such as traffic hazards and alternative routes. It can also be used to send important emergency response information.

This real-time visibility means our customers can notify their customers about order status and record proof of delivery data. The technology:

• Monitors the location and status of goods in transit from the time they are ordered to the point of destination.
• Tracks orders at any time, including estimated time to reach a particular destination
• Tracks shipments from creation to delivery
• Filters shipments based on date, location and status
• Views estimated delivery window
• Downloads proof of delivery (POD)

FoxTrax is monitored from Linfox’s central control rooms and can be accessed by our customers from anywhere at anytime. The technology is the first of its kind in Australia.

Transport Management System

Linfox’s sophisticated Transport Management System (TMS) integrates fleet and logistics management throughout the Linfox transport and warehouse network to streamline our customers’ supply chains.

Our TMS provides a powerful set of options and functionality that can be tailored to our customers’ requirements to orchestrate every point in the supply chain.

Logistics technology

Linfox warehouses and distribution centres lead the way through interconnected, automated technologies that safely increase productivity and efficiency.

Using data analytics, we know how to design and build smart warehousing ecosystems that optimise the product journey. As always, our facilities are managed with the highest levels of safety, compliance and sustainability.  Learn more about our latest automated beverage distribution centre in Sydney, and consumer goods distribution centres in Sydney and Melbourne.

Digital Warehouse Solution

This smart Linfox system supports the end-to-end operation of warehouse sites, resulting in:

• Real-time visibility and seamless integration
• Better information flow
• Optimal customer service.

Features:

• RF and voice-enabled transactions
• Flexible putaway and efficient picking
• Industry standard ready-to-use forms and labels
• Dangerous goods management
• Cold chain storage with temperature recording
• Cross-docking
• Dock appointment scheduling and shipping cockpits
• Interleaving

Linfox’s Digital Warehouse Solution integrates with various automation solutions and connects with other transport providers. Customers can access a full reporting suite through the customer portal with operational, managerial and customer dashboards for full visibility and control of inventory.

We continue to invest in bold automation projects that transform operations for our customers.

At Linfox, information security is just as important as safety.

A truly visible, integrated and efficient supply chain must also be a secure one. Our approach to data risk management is underpinned by a set of management tools and ongoing security awareness that extends to every team member within the business.

Linfox’s IT security management framework (ITSMF) is aligned to ISO-27001 and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) cyber security framework.

Read more about the importance of cyber security in Linfox Solutions. 

At Linfox, we have an ongoing commitment to work smarter.

Continuous improvement (CI) solutions, even small ones, can yield significant outcomes. Linfox’s CI strategy aims to eliminate waste and non-value adding activity from customers’ supply chains.

Our approach to CI is based on the principles of Lean and Six Sigma, improving ongoing cost and efficiency outcomes for our customers to meet their changing needs.

Our LeanFox CI specialists combine a top-down and bottom-up approach, embedding themselves in our customers’ business operations to gain front-line experience. This enables them to capture inefficiencies and identify process improvements.

In one customer facility, the CI team identified wasted travel between forklifts and fixed printers within the warehouse. By installing forklift-mounted, wireless thermal printing devices we:

• Reduced annual forklift travel by 11,000 km
• Increased labour productivity by 90 hours per week
• Delivered efficiency savings of $190,000 per annum.

In another FMCG facility, the LeanFox team focused on streamlining pick-related activities, which reduced the picking cycle time by 49 per cent.

At Linfox, we achieve operational excellence by continually improving our processes and supporting all those impacted by change.

Around-the-clock support

Linfox provides 24/7 operational support, with central control rooms monitoring all Linfox vehicles for security and performance. These interactively monitor and report safety, compliance and security throughout our regional network, which includes monitoring of:

• Driver compliance with safe driving policy (speeding, acceleration, breaking, fatigue management).
• Weekly weather forecasting and alerts
• Flooding and hazard alerts with suggested alternative routes
• Unauthorised stops and fuel theft monitoring
• Areas of unrest and suggested alternative routes
• Door sensor alarm alerts
• Traffic reports and identification of alternative routes
• Roadblocks and suggested alternative routes
• Driver and vehicle performance, including tracking delivery and pick-up times against schedule; truck arrival and departure notification to customers and operations teams.