IntuTrace: Multimodal Freight Tracking for Road, Rail, and Port in India

What Is IntuTrace?

IntuTrace is Intugine's multimodal freight tracking product — designed for Indian enterprises whose supply chains span multiple transportation modes: road trucks, Indian Railways freight wagons, and port/ICD container movements. IntuTrace aggregates tracking data from all three modes into a single unified dashboard — so supply chain teams have a complete view of every freight movement, regardless of whether it's on a highway, a rail rake, or waiting for customs clearance at a port.

For Indian manufacturers in cement, coal, steel, and chemicals — where a single material supply chain often involves mine-to-railhead road trucking, rail movement to destination siding, and railhead-to-plant road trucking — IntuTrace provides the end-to-end visibility that mode-specific tracking tools cannot deliver.

Core Tracking Modules

Road Tracking (GPS + SIM + FASTag)

The same multimodal road tracking stack as Intutrack — GPS device for primary accuracy, SIM-based fallback, FASTag highway validation — covering all road freight segments within the multimodal supply chain. Geofenced arrival and departure at railheads, plant gates, and port gates feed automatically into the IntuTrace timeline.

Rail Tracking (FOIS Integration)

IntuTrace integrates with Indian Railways FOIS (Freight Operations Information System) to provide wagon-level rail freight tracking — consignment status, rake location, wagon movement events, and estimated arrival at destination railway siding. For coal plants receiving 20–50 rakes per month, FOIS-integrated rail visibility eliminates the manual FOIS portal monitoring that consumes hours of coordinator time daily.

Port and ICD Tracking

Container status tracking at major Indian ports and ICDs — gate-in, terminal location, vessel loading status, gate-out, and customs clearance milestones. For enterprises with import-dependent raw material supply chains, port tracking eliminates the uncertainty gap between vessel arrival and material availability at plant.

Unified Multimodal Timeline

IntuTrace's signature feature is the unified freight timeline — a single chronological view of every event in a shipment's journey across all modes. A coal consignment's timeline shows mine loading (road), arrival at railhead (geofenced event), rake loading confirmation (FOIS), rail transit milestones (FOIS wagon events), arrival at destination siding (FOIS), railhead-to-plant road leg (GPS), and plant delivery (geofenced). The operations team sees the complete journey in one view without switching between road tracking and FOIS portals.

Operational Impact

The primary operational impact of multimodal visibility is in inbound raw material planning. When a plant's coal, limestone, or ore supply chain has transparent tracking across every mode and handoff point, production scheduling teams can plan with actual material arrival ETAs rather than estimated ranges — reducing safety stock, preventing production stoppages from unexpected supply delays, and enabling precise production schedule adjustments when supply disruptions are detected early.

Who Uses IntuTrace

IntuTrace is deployed by cement manufacturers tracking limestone and coal inbound across road and rail, steel plants monitoring iron ore and coking coal supply chains, power plants tracking coal receipt from multiple mines and railway zones, and chemical manufacturers with complex import-plus-domestic raw material supply chains.