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CHEP, which offers pallet and container pooling services, has implemented RedPrairie’s RFID-enabled DLx Warehouse in its Orlando, Florida Innovation Center.

Masternaut, creator of mobile resource management software, has assisted Help the Aged to equip 160 of its collection vehicles with a new in-cab wireless data and satellite tracking system.

Birmingham-based technology services provider Probrand has signed three sector leading company’s to its online IT purchasing hub, The IT Index.

Lister Petter, international manufacturer and distributor of industrial engines and generator sets, has ordered a £300,000-plus enterprise resource planning (ERP) system from business software specialist CPiO.

Technological advances in communications and computing have revolutionised much of the service industry with the advent of Internet-based commerce enhancing this further. Why are logistics operations being so cautious to adopt technology?

The UK’s largest cement manufacturer, Lafarge Cement, has adopted an innovative ‘truck, track and trace’ system to enable its drivers to focus on driving and at the same time improve ‘real-time’ communications with its 9,000 customers.

Third-party logistics company TDG handles the warehousing and distribution for the Early Learning Centre. In order to cope with ELC’s peak periods, TDG has swapped its manual paper-based system for a wireless data capture solution.