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A Wholesale Nursery Finds ROI With Rugged Mobile Handhelds
2/3/2012
For years, Herman Losely & Son employed a manual, paper system for tracking inventory and shipments. Under this system, a hand-written pallet tag would be attached to each pallet of plants while it was still in the nursery.
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ERP In Wholesale And Distribution
1/17/2012
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) has long been a key enabler for manufacturers to effectively run their businesses.
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The 5 Building Blocks Of Supply Chain Visibility
11/16/2011
The benefits of supply chain visibility have been recognized for over a decade, but solutions to date have fallen far short. Although warehouse management systems (WMS) have provided good inventory visibility within facilities and enterprises, the real need is for visibility beyond the four walls. However, due to cultural and technological reasons, true supply chain visibility has eluded most companies.
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Ripening Produce Traceability
11/10/2011
LoBue Citrus is a family-run grower and distributor of oranges accounting for approximately four to five percent of the California citrus industry. That equates to between four and five million boxes each year, with 40 percent of the product exported to Asia. Based in Lindsay, California, the company recognized the need to automate its produce traceability program in October 2010. Formerly, the process was manual, which tied up critical resources and increased the likelihood of error.
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Faster Means Fresher
11/10/2011
After originally opening as an Italian deli and small restaurant specializing in organic fresh pasta and sauces, owner Steve Simonovich transitioned Santa Cruz Pasta Factory into a manufacturing and production operation. Now distributing to Bay Area grocery stores such as Whole Foods, Simonovich began running into trouble with his company's manual processes — seeing a major increase in invoicing
errors costing hundreds of dollars each month.
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HAVI Logistics: Efficient, End-To-End Tracking And Tracing For Frozen Foods
11/10/2011
For restaurant chains, quality assurance is vital. For a highly specialized logistics company like HAVI Logistics GmbH who supplies all the European restaurants of probably the most well-known foodservice retailer in the world several times a week with food and non-food items, it is an absolute must. As is end-to-end tracking and tracing of goods from arrival at the
logistics company through to delivery to the restaurant branch.
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Mediq Is Ready For The Future With The Intermec CN50
11/10/2011
Mediq is an international supplier of medicines and medical aids. With around 8,200 employees, Mediq is active in fourteen countries. The company constantly works on helping patients to get better and teaches them how best to deal with their condition. This allows people to feel healthier and continue to feel part of society.
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Advance Car Carriers: In It For The Long Haul
11/10/2011
How enterprise mobility is allowing Advance Car Carriers to improve delivery accuracy and efficiency
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Efficiency — Field To Fork
11/10/2011
For Washington Fruit & Produce, Co., one of Washington state's largest shippers of apples, maintaining the most effective technology possible for distribution center (DC) operations is a constant requirement.
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Tracking To The Right POD System In Food Distribution
11/10/2011
The food industry is like no other. The distribution process
through the supply chain must be timelier, more efficient
and more accurate than nearly any other industry. If that
was not enough challenge the food distributors have the
daunting task in today's economy of not only complying
with food industry regulations but also efficiently operating
large fleets, managing a mobile workforce, and keep
an eye on all important customer service quality.
