Indoor mapping and RFID tracking in Latin America

Over recent years, manufacturers supplying the US market have moved or added production in Mexico — the trend usually called nearshoring. Much of it has gone to industrial parks in the north, around Monterrey and along the border states, and to the Bajío in central Mexico, where automotive and appliance supply chains were already strong. New plants are often run to the standards and reporting habits of a customer across the border.

Spatial Map draws lines, workstations, WIP buffers and raw-material and finished-goods racks on the plant layout and colours them from your MES or ERP; RFID tags on carriers and bins show where they are between stations. A read-only share link gives a customer or a group office one plant, with chosen floors and layers, an expiry date and no account. The Summit Assembly demo shows the pattern, and the supply-chain solution explains it.

The region’s trade runs through a handful of large ports: Santos in Brazil, one of the largest container ports in Latin America; Manzanillo on Mexico’s Pacific coast; Callao serving Lima, now alongside the new deep-water port at Chancay to its north; San Antonio and Valparaíso in central Chile; Cartagena on Colombia’s Caribbean coast; and Buenos Aires on the River Plate.

Around them, bonded warehouses and distribution centres unpack containers and stage freight for trucks heading inland. On the map, dock doors, yard slots and staging lanes take their status from your yard or WMS data, and RFID pallets show at the dock door that last read them, as in the Eastport Cross-Dock demo. Customs procedures and records stay in your own systems.

Latin America feeds much of the world out of season: Chilean fruit, Peruvian blueberries and avocados, Mexican avocados, Colombian cut flowers flown out of Bogotá, and Brazilian and Argentine meat. All of it passes through packhouses and cold stores before the reefer container or the aircraft.

Spatial Map colours each pre-cooling tunnel, cold room and dock from its latest reading, keeps every reading in row history and raises in-app alerts when a room stays out of range or a sensor stops reporting. The Polar Pharma demo shows the same picture in a pharmaceutical cold store; your quality system and export documents stay the record. See the cold-chain solution.

São Paulo, Mexico City, Bogotá, Lima, Santiago and Buenos Aires have large multi-level malls, and e-commerce has filled their outskirts with fulfilment centres. In a fulfilment centre, every rack location is coloured from the WMS stock by bin, as in the Crestline Fulfillment demo with 2,204 rack locations. In a mall or a multi-floor store, footfall shows as a heatmap that stops at walls, and wayfinding builds routes across floors with Fastest and Step-free options.

The Spatial Map interface is available in Spanish, English, French, German, Arabic and Chinese, and each user picks their own. It is not available in Portuguese; Brazilian teams typically use English or Spanish, and their own room names, rack codes and report titles appear in Portuguese exactly as typed.

Where location data relates to people, national laws are the context — Brazil’s LGPD and the personal data laws of Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Peru among them. Your legal advisers decide what applies; most plant and warehouse projects tag carriers, pallets and stock rather than staff. A data processing agreement is available. Spatial Map is sold online at the same USD price everywhere, and our team works with customers remotely through the contact form.