Warehouse Management Systems

It's in the Bag: Office Depot Slashes Cost and Waste With Plastic Totes

December 27, 2012

For smaller items delivered to most of its business customers, the company has replaced corrugated cardboard boxes with returnable plastic totes and paper bags. The experiment has yielded big benefits in less than a year.

Accellos Now Offering Drive Axle Scanning App Within Prophesy Dispatch

December 21, 2012

Accellos Inc.

The Prophesy division of Accellos Inc. is now including the Drive Axle mobile scanning application of Eleos Technologies, LLC in its Prophesy Dispatch suite of software for trucking and fleet management.

ASAP Systems Unveils Mobile App in the Cloud for Asset Management

December 20, 2012

ASAP Systems

ASAP Systems, a vendor of inventory-management and asset-tracking software, has created ASAP BarCloud.

CAPS Enhances Container-Tracking Software for Food Shippers

December 20, 2012

CAPS

CAPS, a provider of container-management services, has developed a new version of CAPS-TRAC, its container-tracking software.

SkyBitz Develops GPS Asset-Tracking System for Cellular Networks

December 19, 2012

SkyBitz

SkyBitz, a vendor of remote asset-tracking and information-management technology, has created the Falcon Series GXT100.

Ryder Offers Mobile Tracking App for iPhone, iPad

December 19, 2012

Ryder System

Ryder System Inc. has created a mobile application of RydeSmart 3.0, its onboard telemetrics system for tracking truck fleets, for the iPhone and iPad.

Coping With Complexity in the Service Parts Supply Chain

December 18, 2012

SupplyChainBrain

A company can live or die by the effectiveness of its service parts supply chain. Yet the requirements for managing that function can be brutally complex. John Reichert, WMS product marketing manager with TECSYS, provides a blueprint for the proper management of service parts.

More Visions of the Future from the San Francisco Roundtable

December 17, 2012

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

Here are five more predictions for 2013 and beyond, from a panel of five well-informed (and well-fed) Silicon Valley business executives. (See my previous post for the first five.) Assembled in Santa Clara, Calif., by the San Francisco Roundtable of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, these individuals took part in the group's fourth annual effort to answer that age-old question: What does the future hold for supply-chain management?

More Visions of the Future from the San Francisco Roundtable

December 17, 2012

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

Aligning Transportation With a Single Platform

December 13, 2012

SupplyChainBrain

Mike Mulqueen, senior director of product management at Manhattan Associates, talks about the advantages of integrating all aspects of transportation management onto a single platform and how the resulting holistic approach drives value at many levels.

Warehouse Management Systems

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