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Berkeley, CA: PINC Solutions, a provider of real-time asset visibility and management solutions based on RFID technology, introduces Carrier View, the latest addition to its Yard Hound Product Suite. Designed for rapid installation, Yard Hound uses inexpensive passive RFID tags to track the location and the status of trailers, to trace the movements of yard trucks and to provide a real-time picture of all yard activities via an intuitive, web-based application. Carrier View extends this capability to 3PL carriers, enabling carriers to see the live status, history and inventory of their assets at their customer’s site. In order to assure data security, only assets belonging to the carrier are made visible.

Using the Carrier View Option, 3PL carriers can make dock appointments, set alerts based on the status of their trailers and gain real-time visibility into their assets at the customer sites–all via Yard Hound’s web-based user interface. This streamlining of information exchange between the carriers and their customers is designed to provide supply chain efficiencies to the customer, cost savings to carriers and allow both to improve on resource planning.

The full Yard Hound Product suite includes Reefer Monitoring for continuous live monitoring of refrigerated units, Yard Hound Director for communicating moves to the yard truck drivers via an in-cab display system and Multi-Site Visibility, which provides insight into efficiencies, trends and other metrics across many distribution centers.