 
The world of transportation and logistics is changing rapidly. For the last five years demand in the
US for the shipment of goods has been growing swiftly while logistics capacity has been tightening.
Experts see no change in this trend due to the continued outsourcing of manufacturing to offshore locations.
Add to this heightened government-mandated security and safety requirements, and the industry is suddenly
faced with unprecedented challenges. As would be expected, the stress these changes place on the supply
chain, and on the companies that manufacture, move, and sell products, has created significant pain points.
These pain points include the demand for improved visibility of inventory and assets, management of
capacity constraints, efficiency improvements, regulatory compliance (e.g. hours of service), and the need
for greater supply chain security.
Fleet operators are responding to these challenges. They have extensive plans to increase the use of
mobility technology to help alleviate these pain points. According to a recent Aberdeen study on Fleet
Mobility Strategies 1 -- “Fleet operators are planning to ratchet up their use of mobility technology
regardless of their current level of mobility adoption. Fully 80% of study participants have current,
budgeted projects for improvements across two or more of the major fleet mobility areas: basic driver
communications, value-added information collection, automatic vehicle location (AVL), and vehicle sensors.”
KonaWare develops and markets a mobility software platform, and associated supply chain execution
applications that directly address these pain points. Our products enable logistics operations within
for-hire fleets, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and third party logistics providers to achieve
end-to-end visibility (shipment and asset tracking) and efficiency improvements across the extended
supply chain. KonaWare applications replace highly inefficient and costly paper-based business processes by
automating these mission critical transactions on mobile/wireless computers – enabling intelligence at the
edge of the enterprise. Our software technology and considerable domain expertise positions the Company to
take advantage of the growing demand for solutions to these pressing problems.
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