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Container Loading Monitoring and Logistics Management
Prevent Poor Loading Procedures and Rejected Products From Being Shipped
Even after your final product has been produced and inspected for the last time, there remains risk that can impact your product performance and lifetime. Inadequate loading practices by the factory can result in damaged finished PV modules and BOS components being shipped, either during loading of the containers or at some point during transportation. Further, finished products that were previously rejected by CEA or that were not inspected by a third party altogether may end up getting shipped without oversight.
Common defects found during Container Loading Monitoring include:
Broken or musty wooden pallets
Broken carton boxes
Improper / Poor pallet stacking
Rejected modules included on the shipping list
Non-inspected lots included on shipping list
Third-party container loading monitoring identifies poor loading procedures that can lead to defects and prevents rejected modules from being loaded and shipped.
Container Loading Monitoring
CEA’s container loading monitoring has our quality control engineers oversee the loading of the finished product to ensure conformance with packaging and loading specifications and to ensure the boxes/pallets loaded into the shipping container come exclusively from the inspected and approved lots.
Our engineers confirm the final products are safely loaded without damage, secured, sealed, and accurately recorded on the Bill of Lading. CEA’s container loading monitoring reports include comprehensive details covering every container, seal, and pallet number with accompanying photos.
Logistics Management and Shipment Tracking
When working with overseas manufacturers on large PV projects, shipment and container tracking can quickly get complicated once the product has left the factory grounds.
CEA’s logistic management services help our customers capture baseline shipping schedules per the manufacturers and report on shipment progress to final destination on key milestones, including:
shipment content
date shipped from facility
onboarded to shipping mode
expected arrival at destination
customs cleared
picked up at port
actual arrival at destination
CEA will deliver a periodic consolidated report for all shipped containers, which include any delay events or notable observations made during the tracking process.