Neovia Logistics, a global supply chain and logistics specialist, has eliminated up to £800,000 of annual asset exposure through the implementation of Sensolus technology, delivered by IoT solutions specialist Peak Technologies. The solution was deployed at one of BMW Group UK’s logistics operations, where Neovia operates as the contract logistics provider.

With approximately 40% of its returnable asset fleet, worth an estimated £320,000, at risk of disappearing into an untracked supply chain, Neovia moved from barcodes to GPS enabled asset tracking following a mandate to implement best-in-class asset management. The result is full visibility across a 230-plus dealership network, a significant recovery of previously lost assets, and a supply chain that now holds itself fully accountable.

Movement of high value parts

Neovia manages the movement of vehicle parts to dealerships across the UK and Ireland, with components travelling in reusable roll cages and tote boxes. Each roll cage carries a replacement value of between £350 to £500, and with roughly 40% of the fleet disappearing from the returns cycle each year, the scale of the problem was significant.

The root cause was invisible. In this circumstance Neovia does not operate its own delivery fleet, instead assets move via third-party carriers and once an asset left a Neovia facility, it effectively ceased to exist in any Neovia controlled system. Barcodes logged departures but gave no information about what happened next. When assets went missing, there were few measures in place to identify and return them. Nobody had the evidence to establish accountability.

BMW Group UK’s decision to mandate GPS-based asset tracking as a condition of contract renewal gave Neovia the impetus to act. Following a formal tender process that began in December 2025, Neovia selected the Sensolus platform, deployed by Peak Technologies, Sensolus’s first ever UK channel partner.

Justin Collingwood, General Manager, Neovia, said: “The loss and misplacement of returnable assets has been a longstanding challenge across the supply chain industry. While our barcode systems could confirm when assets left our warehouse, they provided little visibility beyond that point. We needed a solution that would close the information gap, deliver real-time visibility, and give us the data needed to effectively manage our supply chain. The Peak Sensolus solution achieved exactly that without requiring us to redesign our processes or infrastructure.”

“Today, we have complete control and visibility of our assets across the entire network, enabling us to significantly reduce losses, improve operational efficiency, and enhance service quality. In addition, the solution has delivered meaningful environmental benefits by reducing unnecessary asset replacement and cardboard waste. What began as an asset tracking project has evolved into a powerful tool for driving delivery performance, cost savings, and sustainability across our supply chain.”

Stick and track: a deployment without disruption

The Sensolus 1110 tracker is compact enough to fit the narrow face of a standard roll cage and is fixed using a foam sticky pad, drilled and riveted, with no modification required to existing sortation systems. Peak Technologies delivered the complete solution: hardware, the Sensolus cloud platform, installation and managed services as a single package. Implementation reached full operational status within four months. When a subsequent batch of 3,500 tote boxes and 1,500 roll cages arrived in a revised specification, the fleet was profiled and tracking-ready within four to five weeks.

Each tracker is configured with its own asset profile, including orientation monitoring that alerts Neovia immediately if a cage tips in transit, a relevant and valuable feature when the contents are high-value vehicle parts. Geofenced locations across the dealership estate record arrival and departure times for every asset. Smart tracker configurations are updated over the air, and geolocations can be toggled off when assets are in active service.

Anthony Fulgoni, Solution Consultant, Automation Intelligence Solutions Europe, Peak Technologies, said: “The stick-and-track approach is deliberately straightforward. There’s no infrastructure to install, no complex integration project, and no disruption to existing operations.”

“For Neovia, that meant going from decision to fully operational in under four months across a 5,000-asset fleet. When the next batch of tote boxes came through, it was a matter of weeks to have them profiled and tracking. That scalability is what makes this model work in fast-moving logistics environments.”

Accountability improvements

The impact has extended well beyond location tracking. Once the asset estate became trackable, habits across the supply chain changed. Numerous roll cages previously lost to the network have since been returned, driven not by active retrieval, but by the knowledge that assets could be found. Timestamped GPS records have ensured factual evidence of every asset movement.

The platform is also generating operational intelligence that Neovia did not previously have access to, such as site dwell times, dock throughput, warehouse efficiency data and heat maps of asset movement across the network. The team reports finding actionable insights on an ongoing basis, feeding into logistics planning well beyond the original brief.

Farid Khadir, Sensolus Channel Manager UK, Sensolus, said: “The Neovia deployment illustrates something we see consistently: the smart tracker gets you in the door, but the platform is where the value lives. Neovia came to us with a specific problem, recovering a vanishing asset fleet. What they’ve ended up with is a real-time operational picture of their entire supply chain that they simply didn’t have before. The intelligence the data generates tends to go well beyond the original brief, and that’s where the long-term return on investment is.”