Use case type

Supply chain tracking

This category covers systems that monitor the location, status, and movement of goods, containers, or assets across a supply chain. It addresses limited visibility, loss risk, and inefficient tracking of reusable or in-transit items.

Use cases

2

Examples

2

Industries

1

Timeline

2 mo

Data updated 1 day ago

Adoption over time

Documented cases per month

By case publish month · completed months only

2 cases documented across 18 months (Jan 25 – Jun 26), peaking at 1 in January 2025.

Each column counts every documented case of this type by its publish month, across the full corpus. The in-progress current month is excluded from columns and surfaced separately, and cases published before the charted window are summarized as earlier cases instead of plotted.

Company examples

Use cases of this type

2 shown from 2 use cases

TRLLN, a subsidiary of IFCO, turned supply chain expertise into a global Tracking-as-a-Service platform on Google Cloud.It processes IoT signals from BLE Intelligent Nodes and Super Nodes to provide near-real-time asset tracking, geo-zones, alerts, and navigable maps across reusable assets in multiple industries.

J&T Cargo, launched by J&T Group in Indonesia, built a shipment tracking and supply chain platform on Alibaba Cloud to support fast growth in e-commerce logistics.The company used Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) with Alibaba Cloud IaaS to scale computing resources with demand, and adopted PolarDB plus Tair (Redis OSS-compatible) for business-critical data and caching workloads.J&T Cargo said it would also collaborate with Alibaba Cloud on Big Data and AI to make logistics services more intelligent.

J&T CargoLogistics

Common questions

Supply chain tracking at a glance

How many supply chain tracking use cases are documented?
The AI Use Case Hub documents 2 real supply chain tracking deployments across 1 industries, with 2 detailed company examples you can browse.
Which industries adopt supply chain tracking the most?
Supply chain tracking is most common in Logistics (100%).
Which countries lead in supply chain tracking?
Spain leads documented supply chain tracking deployments, followed by Indonesia.
What technologies are used for supply chain tracking?
Teams most often build supply chain tracking with BigQuery, Google Kubernetes Engine and Pub/Sub.
What results do companies report from supply chain tracking?
Across the 2 deployments reporting outcomes, companies most often cite scale & capacity (100%), risk & compliance (50%) and new business model (50%).