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Tuomi Logistics Implements Bluugo’s Tracking Cloud® Platform for Managing Its Transport Services.

Understanding and complying with EUDR is not something you can get done in a day, but it isn’t quantum physics either. In this blog we explain and demonstrate how the requirements can be tackled quite easily without massive investments and year-long IT projects by utilizing established technology standards and modern digital platforms.

Exactly 10 years ago, on October 27, 2014, Bluugo Oy was registered in the Finnish Trade Register, and our story officially began. In this blog, our CEO Rami shares his thoughts about the journey so far.

Helsinki City Construction Services, Stara, has decided to select Bluugo as the supplier of its new Fleet & Asset Management system. The total value of the implementation is approximately 2 million euros.

Bluugo has signed a 5-year contract with The Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency FTIA (Väylävirasto) for a Spare Parts Management System that will be used to maintain critical railway infrastructure across Finland.

Every B2B company wants to digitalize their business, but many fail to see the difference between digitalization and traditional IT projects – a mistake that often ends up costing fortunes.

Through our recently started partnership with GS1, we can fully leverage established technology standards like EPCIS and Digital Link in our Tracking Cloud® platform, enabling a new level of operational efficiency and compliance readiness for customers.

Everyone who works with ERP systems knows SAP. However, the new SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) seems to raise a lot of questions in many companies. In this blog post, we will investigate the strengths, weaknesses, and capabilities of the SAP BTP and see how it compares to Bluugo’s Tracking Cloud® platform.

Q4 is well on the way, and it’s time to plan and budget for the next year – are you making the most out of your budget for 2024?

Lack of end-to-end visibility affects every part of your business and can ultimately lead to massive financial losses. How much is it costing your company?

In its shortest definition, end-to-end visibility can be thought of as a combination of situational and strategic awareness. What are the main components involved and why is it so important for B2B companies?

More and more companies are investing heavily in digitalization and new intelligent solutions but many fail to achieve the desired results. We believe that one of the root causes for the numerous failures is the wrong type of tools in use – you can’t build modern solutions with legacy tools and expect everything to run smoothly.

In the post-covid world, many industrial companies have been faced with huge challenges in their procurement. It has become obvious that existing tools and procedures are not enough anymore, and holistic visibility is needed for the various workflows and sub-processes of procurement & supply chain. In this blog, we share our priority list of what & how procurement needs to improve in 2022.

Most companies use ERP systems that provide warehouse information only on SKU (Stock Keeping Unit) level. This often causes huge issues and leads to false ATP (Available To Promise) information because components under the same SKU might have numerous different attributes that affect their compatibility with customer requirements.

Many companies are using overly complex maintenance strategies and spending a lot of money on developing machine learning-powered predictive maintenance solutions. A simpler sensor-based approach is usually adequate and provides much higher ROI and faster time-to-value for your investments.

The Communications Channel is a new Tracking Cloud® feature that allows you to easily communicate crucial information to all your different interest groups – even those who are not Tracking Cloud® users themselves.

Almost 70 percent of digital transformation projects in maintenance fail to deliver the desired outcome and fewer than 20 percent of end users have a positive user experience with their digital tools. In this blog, we analyze the main reasons behind the numerous failures and offer some insight on how to avoid the common pitfalls in maintenance & field service digitalization.

Artificial Intelligence is quickly reshaping the foundations of the business world, and providing companies many non-traditional ways to create added value automatically – but how to get started with all this? In the first part of our AI blog series, we go through some of the basic topics of utilizing AI in business applications. If you are interested in AI and its possibilities, this is a great introduction to the subject!

Bluugo has recently been accepted to the second phase of Business Finland’s Young Innovative Companies funding program.

Choosing a suitable identification technology or technologies is one of the most crucial aspects of implementing a new digital solution – how to make sure you pick the best one for your business case?

More and more companies are building their core business processes on digital platforms, and the ability to gather and share data seamlessly wherever and whenever you need to has become a necessity for many. To do this you need stable internet connections – or do you?

The combination of username/password is over 50 years old method for identification – why are we still using it today, when there are many superior solutions available?

Bluugo’s Tracking Cloud® offers companies a fast, easy and low-risk way of implementing new digital solutions to asset tracking and management. Our digital platform contains all the essential tools and functionalities as built-in features, support a wide variety of identification technologies, and offers modern APIs to existing systems. Our own OCR tool utilizes computer vision to enable the identification of assets without any retrofitted tags.

Bluugo has recently started a new partnership with the Swiss telecom giant Swisscom!

In today’s rapidly evolving business world, Companies’ needs for monitoring certain key metrics and KPI’s tend to shift around continuously. It is crucial that the Dashboard tools in use are flexible and allow quick modifications with minimal effort – sadly, this is often not the case. Keep reading to find out how to avoid the common mistakes by replacing your out-of-date dashboard tools!

Successful machine learning is not a one-off project, but a long-term roadmap to make your business more efficient through data. New data is constantly changing and responding to our actions. This means machine learning models have to be actively maintained to keep up.

We are happy to announce that Bluugo has been recently accepted as a member of the German-Finnish Chamber of Commerce.

Ever wondered what’s it like to have a summer job in a growing software company? Our summer workers tell you in our latest blog!

More and more companies are collecting location data from their business processes, but in most cases the data alone is not enough to produce concrete added value. To get tangible results, the collected data needs to be efficiently shared with all involved parties such as customers, their customers, and vendors. Tracking Cloud’s ready-to-run tracking solution is designed to automate the critical phases in your material flows utilizing location data and the latest Geofencing technology.

Bluugo’s Machine Learning Kickstart Package offers an easy way of building strong foundations for your Machine Learning Roadmap – 100% remotely & risk-free!

The importance of flexible working methods in designing and implementing Digital Solutions is emphasized especially when circumstances are different from normal.

Bluugo has been recently awarded two new certificates from Kauppalehti and The Finnish Software Industry Association.

Retrofitting existing machinery with new technologies offers companies a low-risk way to capitalize on the potential of industry 4.0 solutions with fast schedules.

LogiMAT 2020 has been canceled due to the recent developments in the coronavirus outbreak – but do not worry! Instead of meeting us face-to-face in Stuttgart, you can meet our experts virtually.

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Are you attending LogiMAT 2020? If yes, you should definitely come to meet us and see our award-winning Tracking Cloud™ solutions in action!

Modern technology has made collecting data easier than ever before. The award-winning Tracking Cloud™ platform offers companies a fast & easy way of transforming their data into tangible results.

A gathering of 25 000 curious minds. Countless intriguing conversations with people from all over the world, from companies small and big alike. Founders, investors, students, volunteers, friends new and old. Hundreds of business cards exchanged, and many inspiring speakers heard. Few well-deserved beers and one epic after-party. That was Slush 19 in a nutshell for team Bluugo.

The Young Innovative Company funding programme intends to accelerate the global growth of the most ambitious, rapidly growing startups in Finland.

The rapid development of technology and new intelligent solutions are providing companies in the Maintenance & Field Service industry with a vast potential to streamline their actions and solve many challenges traditionally associated with the sector. Have you yet seen a solution which doesn’t require Field Technicians to manually log their working hours or allocate them to certain maintenance locations?

Finland's leading financial paper Kauppalehti published an article about Bluugo and our award-winning Tracking Cloud™ platform on 18.09.2019.

Bluugo is participating in many Trade Fairs and Events throughout the fall of 2019.

Earlier this year, Bluugo was visited by Ground Handling International Magazine and interviewed about our Delay Prediction Tool solution, which won the Innovation Award at The Pride of Ground Handling Awards in Gothenburg last November. The article has now been published in the latest issue of Ground Handling International Magazine! Check out the article to learn how Bluugo’s Machine Learning solution has quickly provided great results for Swissport and Finnair

As the number of devices connected to the IoT-network keeps rising, reliable and cost-efficient network solutions are becoming more and more crucial. Narrowband IoT is a huge step forward on this path.

There is a plethora of different solutions available for managing Maintenance & Field Service operations – how to make sure you pick the right one for your company?

Lately, I’ve been thinking about how computer vision can be used to keep track of equipment and supply chains in new effective ways. This approach could be a real game-changer for many companies with a high number of tracked items.

Machine Learning enables many innovative and nontraditional ways to improve business processes, but the execution of these projects often proves to be harder than anticipated. Find out what are the most common pitfalls of Machine Learning projects and how they can be avoided.

Will native apps soon be history as the rise of web-based solutions continues?

Bluugo Oy has nominated Tapani Järvinen as a new Member of the Board of Directors and Advisor for our company!

Ground Handling International visited Bluugos office this afternoon to interview us and Swissport Finland about our award-winning Tracking Cloud™ Flight Delay Prediction Tool. The innovative solution is starting to gain much international attention.

Bluugo’s team visited Petäys Lakeland Resort last week for our Development Days of fall 2019. During our two days there, many interesting topics were discussed and our company’s plans for the future honed even further.

The year has changed, the numbers of 2018 have been added to the account books and the year 2019 has started with exciting atmosphere at Bluugo’s office. The desks are starting to fill up with new projects, but before diving in head-first, it is good to stop for a moment and look back to 2018.

A Digital Ordering System powered by Bluugo’s Tracking Cloud™ platform creates a digital wrapper around Valtasiirto’s Industrial Park Vehicle Loading & Unloading processes.

Bluugo’s Tracking Cloud™ brings together Europress’s maintenance & field service processes under a single digital platform allowing efficient information sharing and automating of daily processes.

Bufab has launched a new cloud service called EasyTrack™ that runs on Bluugo’s Tracking Cloud™ platform. The service provides Bufab’s customers with transparent real-time visibility of their C-Parts racks, bins, and consumption levels, and automates labor-intensive manual tasks such as taking inventory and placing refill orders.

Bluugo’s Tracking Cloud™ with Machine Learning solution wins an Innovation Award at the Pride of Ground Handling Awards in Gothenburg. The grand final for the Best Handler-Airline Innovation Award was held on 27th November in Gothenburg bringing together the top innovations and professionals of the field.

Over a million passengers pass through Helsinki airport every month. The ground handling services provided by Swissport Finland ensure that the baggage services at the airport operate quickly. Bluugo is partnering with Swissport to combine the power of data and the Tracking Cloud™ platform to detect airplane delays before they even happen.

Tracking Cloud™ is nominated as a finalist for the best innovation award in the Ground Handling International 2018 event.