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1. Customer Overview: A Global Apparel Manufacturer Built on Timely Material Supply

Shinwon Co., Ltd. is a global apparel company with two core businesses.

The company operates a domestic fashion business built around its own brands and designs, as well as an export business that produces finished apparel for overseas buyers through OEM and ODM orders.

For Shinwon’s export business, production schedules depend heavily on the timely arrival of raw and packaging materials sourced from around the world. If these materials do not arrive at the factory as planned, production can be delayed, customer commitments can be affected, and supply chain uncertainty can increase quickly.

That makes inbound material logistics a critical part of Shinwon’s supply chain. The export team manages this flow end to end, from inbound raw material logistics to import and export customs operations.

2. The Challenge: Lower Schedule Reliability Made Material Supply Harder to Control

Shinwon’s export team had two major priorities in supply chain management.

The first was securing competitive logistics costs to support cost efficiency. The second was ensuring that raw and packaging materials arrived on time for production.

While freight costs had begun to stabilize, another issue became more serious. Vessel schedule reliability continued to decline because of region-specific global disruptions.

For Shinwon, this was not simply a logistics inconvenience. When arrival schedules become difficult to predict, the risk of material shortages and production disruption rises immediately.

As Hoyeol Shin from Shinwon’s export team explained:

“While logistics costs were gradually stabilizing, the biggest challenge was that shipment schedule reliability kept deteriorating due to regional issues.”

Before adopting Tradlinx Ocean Visibility, the team had to visit carrier websites one by one or repeatedly contact forwarders to understand whether a shipment was delayed. This made supply chain management slower, more manual, and more reactive.

Shinwon needed more than basic shipment tracking. It needed a visibility workflow that could reduce manual schedule-checking work, improve access to higher-value logistics information, and help the team respond before material delays affected production.

3. How Shinwon Turned Visibility into 70% Higher Supply Chain Efficiency

Shinwon used Tradlinx Ocean Visibility to move from manual vessel schedule checks to a more proactive, data-based supply chain workflow.

Instead of relying on fragmented carrier websites and forwarder updates, the team began managing inbound material visibility through a cloud-based SaaS platform.

This efficiency improvement came from three changes: replacing manual schedule checks with one dashboard, identifying ETA and transshipment delay risks earlier, and using higher-value logistics data to make faster decisions.

1. Replacing manual schedule checks with one dashboard

The first change was reducing the repetitive work behind shipment tracking.

With Tradlinx Ocean Visibility, Shinwon’s export team can enter a Master B/L number or container number into the platform and monitor inbound raw and packaging material containers from one dashboard.

The team can check real-time cargo location, ETA, and shipment status without moving between multiple carrier websites or waiting for separate forwarder updates.

This gave Shinwon a clearer operating view of material movements across global logistics routes. More importantly, it removed a significant amount of manual checking from the team’s daily workflow.

For Shinwon, this was the first driver of the 70% efficiency improvement: less time spent gathering shipment information and more time available for supply chain decisions.

2. Identifying ETA changes before they affect production

The second change was earlier exception detection.

Tradlinx Ocean Visibility provides real-time status updates when expected arrival timing changes or when there are changes in transshipment dwell time. This helps Shinwon identify potential delay risks earlier and understand which inbound material shipments may require action.

For an apparel manufacturer, this matters because raw and packaging material delays can directly affect production schedules. Earlier visibility gives the export team more time to coordinate internally, adjust factory production schedules, or review alternative logistics options before the issue escalates.

This shifted Shinwon’s workflow from reactive tracking to proactive supply chain control.

3. Using high-value logistics data for faster decisions

The third change was improving the quality of information available to the team.

In logistics, timely and objective shipment information can be difficult to secure. By using Tradlinx Ocean Visibility, Shinwon gained access to more reliable visibility data, including satellite AIS-based tracking information.

This gave the export team more than simple location data. It provided higher-value operational information that helped the team understand actual cargo movement, expected arrival timing, and exception events more clearly.

As Hoyeol Shin noted:

“Compared with many other businesses, logistics often feels like an area where visibility and access to information are harder to secure. We believe Tradlinx is providing a high level of visibility and truly high-value information.”

By improving access to this information, Shinwon was able to make faster decisions when delays or schedule changes occurred.

4. Results: 70% Higher Supply Chain Management Efficiency

After adopting Tradlinx Ocean Visibility, Shinwon’s supply chain operation moved from manual tracking to more proactive, data-based management.

A significant amount of time that had previously been spent checking vessel schedules and tracking delays manually was reduced. As a result, Shinwon achieved a measurable 70% improvement in supply chain management efficiency.

The 70% improvement came from a practical change in how the team worked.

Instead of spending time collecting shipment status from carrier websites and forwarder communications, the team could manage inbound material visibility from one dashboard, identify delay risks earlier, and act before those delays affected production schedules.

The impact went beyond time savings.

Shinwon gained stronger visibility into inbound raw and packaging material containers, ETA changes, and exception events. This gave the export team a faster response system for managing supply risk and reducing uncertainty in material delivery.

For Shinwon, the value of Tradlinx Ocean Visibility was not simply knowing where cargo was. It was gaining the information needed to protect production schedules, reduce supply uncertainty, and make faster decisions across its global logistics workflow.

5. What Comes Next: Moving Toward ERP Integration and More Complete Logistics Automation

Shinwon is currently using Tradlinx Ocean Visibility in an intuitive SaaS format, but the company is preparing for a more integrated operating model.

Over the longer term, Shinwon plans to connect its internal ERP system directly with Tradlinx’s data API. Once that integration is complete, purchase order data for raw and packaging materials inside Shinwon’s ERP will connect directly with real-time logistics tracking data from Tradlinx.

This will allow Shinwon to manage logistics visibility more fully from within its own internal systems, without relying only on a separate platform. It also creates a foundation for deeper supply chain automation and a more complete digital transformation of logistics operations.

Shinwon’s case shows that supply chain efficiency improves when logistics visibility becomes part of production planning.

By using Tradlinx Ocean Visibility to replace manual schedule checks, monitor inbound material containers from one dashboard, and identify ETA and transshipment delay risks earlier, Shinwon improved supply chain management efficiency by 70%.

For apparel manufacturers operating across global supply networks, visibility is not only about tracking cargo. It is about protecting production schedules, responding faster to disruption, and making supply chain decisions with greater confidence.