Smart supply chain
Smart Supply Chain
Connect remote workers, vehicles and equipment. Automate processes and notifications. Safeguard confidential data and your assets. Oversee your entire supply chain with Telstra’s end-to-end solutions.

All Systems Go
Telstra helps solve the complexity of industrial automation across sensors, high-speed, high-density 5G networks, IT/OT integration, control platforms, cyber security, AI, and data analytics.
How can we help you?
Discover our solutions
Three steps to smart supply chain
Connect
Telstra’s high-speed industrial networks can connect your hubs, people, vehicles, assets and sensors using the right combination of private and public 4G/5G, internet, fibre or satellite.
Protect
Telstra can embed multi-layered security from the core to the very edge of your network to help safeguard your devices, sensors, cloud services and business IP against cyberthreats.
Empower
We integrate innovative industry solutions across your environment and provide expert guidance, training, management and support to take the complexity out of modernising your supply chain.
Bringing it all together
Telstra's end-to-end solution for industrial automation.
IoT Network
3 million+ sensors are already connected to the Telstra IoT network – the largest in Australia.
IT/OT Integration
Alliance Automation – a Telstra Purple Company integrates your IT and OT systems, switchboards, motor control centres, control panels and business systems.
Private 5G
Aqura – a Telstra Purple Company provides secure, high-speed, high-density private 4G and 5G connectivity for mine sites – even underground.
Edge Compute
Telstra Edge provides the local processing power and security you need to enhance the performance of your systems and help protect your data.
Orchestration
Nokia Orchestration Center provides end-to-end network and service orchestration capabilities to optimise performance across multiple technology domains.
Resources
Explore our digital maturity model to see where you stand.
Find out why visibility is the overarching benefit of digitisation, and how it improves efficiency, sustainability and worker safety in Building Resilient Supply Chains.
Listen to this podcast with our industry experts Jon Young Flores and Warren Jennings to find out how to make supply chains cyber fit.
Reduce industry emissions
We helped our customers to avoid 2.7 million tonnes of CO₂ emissions in 2021 – the equivalent of taking 1.2 million vehicles off Australian roads per year.¹
Moving to the cloud
In 2021, our cloud solutions helped customers avoid 106,000 tonnes of CO₂ emissions (tCO₂e).¹
Connected workers
In 2021, approximately 36% of the Australian workforce usually worked from home. Telstra provided internet connectivity to millions of these workers, enabling customers to avoid 806,000 tCO₂e.¹
Fleet management
Using Telstra IoT sensors and LTE technology to track and monitor vehicle fleets, optimise routes and reduce fuel consumption.
Telstra enabled our customers to reduce emissions of 212,000 tCO₂ein 2021.¹
- ¹ Deloitte: Enabling Positive Climate Action. See the full report for details, assumptions and qualifications. Telstra Enablement Report 2022 (PDF document, 11.6 MB)
Industry success stories
We can look at fatigue ratings of our drivers, we can look at when they clocked on and off. We now have a better understanding of people in their roles, and we have evolving shift rosters because of what we are seeing from the data.
Russell Wellock,
Group Technology Manager, Bis
This was about enabling our field workers to have a raft of important data at their fingertips and make some regular, routine tasks easier to complete.
Fraser Shields,
Client Services Manager, Downer Group
Learn more about how Downer Group used AR to reimagine preventative maintenance of road assets
Technologies
Why work with Telstra in supply chain
Industry Experts
Dedicated supply chain team.
Deep expertise, capability and partner ecosystem.
Proven reference sites.
Best practice methodologies.
Integration specialists
IT and OT integration to enable process management and automation.
Our data hub that aggregates data from multiple sources (sensors, wearables, vehicles, etc.) and tags it for smart analytics, insights and reporting.
Smart IT Solutions
Worker safety and monitoring.
Productive tools and technology.
Automated machinery and processes.
Track plant, vehicles and equipment.
Simplify environmental management.
Cost efficiency
IT value is our yardstick.
Reduce costs and free up valuable IT resources with our affordable managed services.
Pay-as-you-go cloud services and flexible mobility and network plans with no lock-in.
Security
Innovate with confidence.
Telstra’s advanced networks have smart, embedded technologies designed to safeguard business continuity and help protect data.
Extensive Ecosystem
No single solution – options to suit your needs.
From IoT sensor platforms to AR/VR headsets, we bring you the right blend of solutions for your goals.
Purple Professional Services
Telstra Purple industry specialists can work with you to modernise and automate your operations, empower your staff with advanced technologies and introduce powerful IoT platforms for remote monitoring and control, making it easy to automate fleet management, safety and environmental monitoring.
Purple Managed Services
From managing your IoT sensors or your fleet through to taking care of your industrial network, we offer tailored managed services to suit your needs.