Numerex Corp., a company dedicated to making the M2M experience easy, scalable and secure for the M2M customer, announced that it will rely on its M2M platforms to address the various global logistics market needs.

Services that provide intelligent and real-time visibility into a wide variety of nomadic assets have been developed by Numerex (News - Alert) to meet the growing demands from complex informational and physical value chains. The company is one of the leading single source providers of secure M2M products and services.

“We need to find new methods to move products more efficiently if we are to keep pace with the rest of the world,” U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke said in a statement. “That means viewing the relationship between trade and transportation more broadly, in interconnected and interrelated ways that are much more complex."

The challenges of the new supply chain environment were defined by Locke in May 2009. They were defined at the Supply Chain Infrastructure Competitiveness Conference in Washington, D.C.

According to Locke, old solutions are not enough. Forces that go beyond traditional transportation remedies are dramatically changing the current supply chains. More advanced information technology applications can be seen at every level of a supply chain. More sophisticated equipment and integrated business processes can be also seen.

These challenges are being met with Numerex services. Logistics and supply chain management's role in businesses' value creation cannot be overstated as the world economy is being tightly integrated. Critical pieces of information necessary for efficient management can be provided by data gathering and analysis. An inherent component of any logistics and supply chain infrastructure is information technology. The tools to optimize the flow of products and activities are provided by Numerex with its advanced services.

In a release, Stratton J. Nicolaides, chairman and CEO of Numerex, said, "A 'flat world' requires an intricate web of connections and real-time interactions to allow optimal decision-making. Our suite of products and services specifically tailored to the logistics market facilitates this global management through smart remote monitoring and control of assets regardless of their geographic location."

According to Nicolaides, Numerex’s suite of products is hosted in a secure environment. They therefore aim to be a critical component of the clients’ informational structure.  

Calvin Azuri is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Calvin’s articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Carrie Schmelkin