Challenge: Client needed to track shipment costs for moves initiated/ linked with another contracts/work order system and to request freight rates for various activities from contracted carriers, obtain quotes and select appropriate carrier, track shipment, obtain final carrier invoice for each move, capture contract/ work number. The only way to track shipment costs were to capture system project numbers on freight invoices, but the data wasn’t always available. The process was manual; carrier selected by hand and dispatched via telephone/ email. Costs couldn’t be tracked if system project number wasn’t provided by the carrier.

Challenge: The customer manufactures and distributes products for musical instruments globally and wanted faster and more accurate processing of their orders. Their goal was to accomplish these goals by using the existing footprint of their current warehouse. ScottTech was engaged to engineer and integrate an automated warehouse control system.

BlueStar Inc., a distributor of technology for sales and supply-chain execution, has added three new mobile-computing devices to its product line.

ABI Research forecasts that revenues from maintenance analytics will total $9.1bn this year. Following a CAGR of 22 percent, the market’s size will reach $24.7bn in 2019, driven largely by adoption of predictive analytics and M2M connectivity.