RFID and IT

Acquisition will boost Renovotec turnover to over £50 million, with 160 employees Jade has 30 years of expertise in developing IT solutions, including high-growth contactless retail “Renovotec is now the largest consultative company in its industry. Our strategy of meeting our supply chain customers’ business needs with best-in-class technology is …

JLG Industries, Inc., an Oshkosh Corporation company [NYSE:OSK] and a leading global manufacturer of mobile elevating work platforms and telehandlers, enables service technicians to connect to the JLG® DaVinci® AE1932 scissor lift via the exclusive DaVinciGO™ app, providing intelligent diagnostics through a smartphone or tablet. The DaVinciGO app can be …

View from the outside-in, Matthew Dunne comments on unprecedented year of industry growth, and unexpected supply chain impact With e-commerce taking off (particularly in the wake of the pandemic), the warehousing industry has seen an unprecedented year of growth. The cloud-based warehousing and delivery management for ecommerce specialist, Despatch Cloud, …

BigChange, a provider of field service management software, has made the first appointment to its Partnership Programme. The BigChange complete Job Management Platform brings together customer relationship management (CRM), job scheduling, live tracking, field resource management, financial management and business intelligence into one simple to use and easy to integrate …

There has been no shortage of challenges for the logistics industry this year. The onset of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 ground industries across the world to a halt. But, as the world began to open up this year, businesses were faced with new problems: crippling supply shortages, from materials …

Peak season trading this year is set to be more difficult than ever for retailers. Unprecedented supply chain disruption is threatening to decimate stock levels. Post-COVID customer behaviour is unpredictable – with some customers relying ever more heavily on ecommerce; others heading to the high street to get ahead on …

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) tracks every item of Rope and Sling Specialists Ltd.’s (RSS) equipment at a sprawling, seven-site project in London. RSS has stocked lifting and rigging equipment stores at each of the locations—and every shackle, hook, sling, and harness is fitted with a tag that can be read by …

New system integrates automated vertical storage with robotics for continuous, 24/7 picking with 50% fewer warehouse workers Robotics doubles the impact of vertical storage automation according to Randex user feedback Leading vertical storage lift company Randex is launching ‘Compact 24/7’, a solution that integrates the company’s ‘Compact’ family of automated …

In an exciting move for Verton, they have today announced that Sparrows Group (Sparrows) has signed up to be their first Australian distributor. Sparrows is a global provider of specialist engineering, inspection, operations and maintenance services to the offshore energy, renewables and industrial markets. Their mission is to support their …

Samworth Brothers Supply Chain has introduced the first LNG-powered trucks into its fleet, following a four-week trial with a demonstrator provided by the local Volvo Trucks dealer. The move sees the logistics arm of the chilled specialist take delivery of six new Volvo FM LNG tractor units with Globetrotter cabs, …