Optimizing Trailer Tracking While Minimizing Capital Expenditure: Mauser Packaging’s Success with SkyBitz

Unlock Unprecedented Efficiency: Discover How Mauser Packaging Transformed Its Fleet Management with SkyBitz

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An Innovative Partnership

Mauser Packaging Solutions, a global leader in solutions and services across the packaging lifecycle, faced significant challenges in tracking its trailer fleet. Through an innovative partnership with SkyBitz, an AMETEK Telular brand, Mauser was able to overcome these obstacles efficiently. This case study explores how leveraging SkyBitz’s trailer tracking solutions and Managed Services Agreement (MSA) enabled Mauser to transform its operations without hefty capital expenditures.

Background

Mauser Packaging Solutions specializes in delivering a comprehensive range of packaging products, including steel drums, fiber drums, and plastic totes. The company’s operational model often involves using trailers as extensions of their customers’ warehouses, complicating the tracking process. Effective trailer management is crucial for Mauser to ensure timely deliveries and optimal use of their fleet resources.

An aerial view of trailers in a yard underscores the importance of visibility into where assets are parked and how often they sit idle.

Business Challenge:

Mauser faced several trailer tracking challenges:

Visibility: With trailers often used as temporary storage at customer locations, Mauser needed real-time visibility into their exact locations.
Efficiency: Inefficient tracking led to trailers sitting idle for extended periods, sometimes up to 300 days, impacting resource utilization.
Accountability: Ensuring customers and carriers returned trailers promptly was difficult without accurate tracking data.
Cost Management: Implementing an advanced tracking system without incurring high capital expenditures was crucial for Mauser

Mauser's high-speed automated production drives demand for smarter logistics.

The Solution

SkyBitz provided a comprehensive trailer tracking solution tailored to Mauser’s needs:

Advanced Tracking Technology: SkyBitz’s hardware, featuring our Kinnect telematics solution, rechargeable batteries and flexible installation options, allowed for quick deployment and reliable performance.
Geofencing Capabilities: Enabled Mauser to monitor trailer movements and ensure timely recovery of trailers, reducing instances of abandoned units.
Managed Services Agreement (MSA): Offered a flat monthly fee model, eliminating upfront costs and preserving Mauser’s credit lines. The MSA provided a very easy pathway for Mauser to deploy advanced trailer tracking technology.
InSight Portal: Provided a centralized platform for real-time tracking data, improving operational oversight and decision-making.

Centralized dashboards with utilization trends.

Centralized dashboards give Mauser full visibility into trailer locations and utilization trends.

The Impact & Benefits of SkyBitz and MSA

The implementation of SkyBitz’s solutions combined with MSA had a significant impact on Mauser’s operations:

Conclusion

SkyBitz’s trailer tracking solutions have revolutionized Mauser Packaging Solutions’ fleet management. By addressing key challenges and providing a cost-effective implementation model, SkyBitz has enabled Mauser to enhance operational efficiency, accountability, and data accuracy. This partnership demonstrates how innovative technology solutions can drive significant ROI in logistics and transportation management.

SkyBitz

SkyBitz, a brand of AMETEK® Telular, delivers end-to-end asset management solutions for businesses seeking to improve margins by automating workflow and human processes using intelligent data and devices. With over 30 years of commercial telematics experience, we provide rapidly deployable solutions for customers in transportation and logistics, oil and gas, and industrial markets. AMETEK, Inc. is a leading global provider of industrial technology solutions serving a diverse set of attractive niche markets with annual sales of approximately $7.5 billion.

“Our new role in fleet asset management has significantly improved our ability to hold our customers accountable. By reviewing the dashboards we’ve created using SkyBitz data, we can approach our customers and address issues like idle trailers. For example, we can inform them if a trailer has been idle for an extended period, say 200 to 300 days, and discuss whether we’re charging them for that idle time. Regardless, our goal is to ensure that the trailers are moving efficiently instead of sitting idle at our customers’ warehouses” "

Chris Hackman, Fleet Asset Manager

Mauser Packaging Solutions