Tive

What it does

Tive is a supply chain visibility platform using IoT tracking devices and AI analytics to provide real-time shipment location, condition monitoring, and proactive exception management across global supply chains. AI capabilities include ML-powered ETA prediction that forecasts arrival times from historical carrier data, weather, and real-time location, intelligent exception detection that identifies when shipments deviate from expected routes or conditions, AI temperature and shock anomaly detection that alerts when cargo is at risk of damage, predictive disruption alerts that warn about potential supply chain issues before they affect delivery commitments, carrier performance analytics that surface which carriers and lanes have the most reliability issues, and supply chain analytics that quantify on-time performance and condition compliance across the logistics network.

Strengths

• Mid-market manufacturers and importers use Tive for real-time shipment visibility - AI ETA predictions enabling proactive exception management and condition monitoring protecting high-value cargo.
• Large enterprises use Tive for enterprise supply chain visibility - AI-powered alerting across complex global shipping networks and analytics informing carrier and logistics strategy.
• Tive is a supply chain visibility platform using IoT tracking devices and AI analytics to provide real-time shipment location, condition monitoring, and proactive exception management across global supply chains.

Watch-outs

• Requires Tive tracking device hardware per shipment: Tive's real-time visibility requires its IoT trackers to be placed with each shipment — the hardware cost per tracker adds to total visibility program investment especially for high-volume shippers.
• Project44 and FourKites have larger multi-modal visibility coverage: project44 and FourKites provide carrier-integrated tracking across more carriers without hardware requirements — shippers evaluating visibility platforms should compare network coverage and per-shipment cost models.
• IoT tracking adds per-shipment cost for high-volume operations: The per-tracker cost model scales with shipment volume — high-volume shippers must model total hardware and software costs carefully against the value of real-time condition monitoring.

Pricing

Tive pricing per tracker device plus platform subscription. Not published. Mid-market and enterprise contracts negotiated. Annual contracts.