PACK EXPO and Reusables Management

Today’s PACK EXPO update is sponsored by the world’s best pallet and container control, you and 2ic. Yesterday’s educational session focused, appropriately enough, on reusable pallet and container management. I’ll follow up with more later, but there were some useful quotes. One was to the effect that reusables systems suffer less loss when the trading [...]

Winners and Losers – Initiative to Standardize Australia’s Pallet Transfer Practices Continues

The efforts to standardize Australia’s complex pallet transfer practices continue, as reported in the following article from Australasian Transport News, posted with permission of the publisher by John Stuart of Pallet Loss Prevention via the Pallet Hire Community on LinkedIn. Read more.  

Enfora, iGPS and Numerex Win Gold at 2011 Connected World Value Chain Awards

Congratulations are in order for the triad of Enfora, Inc., a Novatel Wireless company, iGPS Company and Numerex Corp (NASDAQ: NMRX) for winning in the 2011 Connected World Value Chain Awards in the Supply Chain and Logistics category, for the combined implementation of the world’s first real-time pallet tracking service. iGPS operates the world’s largest [...]

The Pallet Stops There, The Cost Stops Here

“Why can’t we just all get along?” Jack Nicholson asked in his role of U.S. President in the movie Mars Attacks!  That was just before he got zapped. When it comes to reusable transport packaging, the good news is that we can. The challenge is to set the correct framework of asset accountability in place [...]