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Warehousing News Roundup: April 15, 2019

Stord

The British retailer River Island raised its inventory accuracy from 72% to 97% after implementing the use of RFID tags. Rail freight lines in the Midwest are recovering from historic floods , but the potential for future damage still remains. In addition, the company has increased the frequency of its inventory counts to weekly.

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Penske Helps Deliver a Christmas Miracle for Military Spouses

Penske Move Ahead

After the hurricane happened and the flooding took place, we lost everything in our warehouse and or corporate offices,” Mrs. Rumley said. “We I know that many of the spouses in the areas we are going to went through a similar flooding situation,” Mrs. Rumley said. It is all done in our warehouse office location.”.

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Excess Inventory? No Problem. You Have Trailers In the Yard.­­

Talking Logistics

But even as developers have flooded the market with new inventory, some retailers are still having trouble finding adequate, flexible space. To be most efficient, for example, a temporary warehouse on wheels must be tagged and tracked while out in the yard or facility, with all of its contents properly inventoried and accounted for.

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Community Service Central to Penske Associate’s Life

Penske Move Ahead

Six months into the job, Smith’s neighborhood was affected by Tropical Storm Allison – causing serious flooding damage to many homes. “It Every weekend in May, he and a couple volunteers assisted with issuing pool tags to their neighbors interested in visiting the neighborhood pool all summer long. Working Hard, Not Hardly Working.

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Dynamo Dispatch — Issue 13

Tradewinds

If part of the sale requires IoT, prep to “flood the market” at Series A. The presence of sensors generally requires more upfront work or the development of a new behavior (ex: tagging each container with a device or installing a device in the OBD port) which requires outsized value to be delivered to users. Cash management.

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7 Supply Chain and Logistics Trends to Watch in 2018

Logistics Bureau

It’s taken less than five years for them to become largely irrelevant, as consumer-grade tablets and smartphones soon came to offer the same capabilities —with a far lower price tag. The consumerisation of digital technology has impacted enterprise software too.

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Alaska: North To The Future

247 Customs Broker

The railroad follows the Nenana River, and the ice breaking in the spring can back up and cause flooding conditions. Tags: Economic Development , Transportation Infrastructure , Transportation , Logistics , Supply Chain. April 23, 2018 |. The Last Frontier is the nickname for Alaska—the largest state by land size.