A commerce visibility network allows for the collection and distribution
of real-time location and status information regarding the movement of
goods and assets through a supply chain. Items and/or conveyances may be
individually tagged using radio frequency identifiers or other tagging
technologies, such as global positioning satellite technology. The
location of an item or conveyance may be marked and information on the
location may be stored at a site server. The site server may then upload
location information to a data center. Supply chain users may then be
charged a fee per tracked item or fee per transaction to access the data
center and view reports compiled using the location information regarding
each tracked item. This allows for instantaneous access to location and
status information of any item in the supply chain. Additionally,
aggregation information is provided to allow for the tracking of items
which are stored in conveyances, even in several levels of conveyances.
Compensation logic is applied to the asset movement data to provide a
continuous knowledge of the asset locations, so as to compensate for
deficiencies in the raw location data.