Logistics & Supply Chain Technology, Transportation & Distribution

DENSO, part of the Toyota group and inventor of the QR Code, launched the first CCD scanner more than 30 years ago and since then has continuously evolved technologically. “Consumer smartphones are increasingly used in industries such as retail and logistics.

Midwich, the trade distributor to the audio visual (AV) and document solutions market with operations in Europe and Australasia, has promoted both Lee Harris and Ross Floyd to Divisional Director, following the planned retirement of long-serving Commercial Director, Lee Baker.

To borrow that famous quote from the great American author Mark Twain, reports of the death of the physical retail store have been greatly exaggerated.

Thanks to customer expectations, the supply chain, and logistics industry have evolved significantly over the past few years. Brick and mortar processes of delivering goods and services are just not good enough. Hence, surfaces the need to deploy technologies that empower business to keep up with customers.

Red Box, the platform for voice, has announced the results of a global survey of CIOs, general C-suite and IT management enterprise employees into their views of voice capture in the enterprise, showing the majority of businesses are capturing only partial voice data sets and are not able to make the most of this highly valuable data set as it is largely inaccessible.

Omnichain Solutions (Omnichain), an enterprise focused on supply chain management solutions powered by Blockchain, advises consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands and retailers not to think of the future of retail in terms of a battle between brick-and-mortar and e-commerce.

Theorem Solutions of Tamworth, Staffordshire has released the latest Creo-3D PDF publisher from the Publish 3D product range.

Consumers are growing more comfortable buying fashion items on their phones reveals new Black Friday and Cyber Monday data from AI-powered retail personalisation platform, Nosto. And for fashion retailers, Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2018 was 36% bigger than last year.

Jabra has announced another key appointment as Ismail Mitha joins the North EMEA Channel team to further enhance the breadth of the team and support key reseller accounts. Mitha will be field-based, but will report into Jabra’s UK HQ in Langley, Berkshire.

By Konstantin Selgitski, Chief Marketing Officer, Dzinga.

By 2028, around 70-80% of online purchases will be made using mobile devices according to recent predictions. Alongside this shift in purchasing behaviour, Forrester Research has also highlighted that customers are now demanding even faster service, anywhere, at any time.