PepsiAmericas selects Global Beverage Group’s warehouse and logistics software
Global Beverage Group (GBG), Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, will supply its Load Optimizer warehouse and logistics software solution to PepsiAmericas, the second largest Pepsi-Cola anchor bottler with operations in North America, the Caribbean and Central Europe.
U.S. Army ammunition depots select Savi Technology for real-time inventory management solution
Savi Technology, Sunnyvale, Calif., has successfully rolled out an integrated and automated control system that enables the U.S. Army to improve the management of all of its ammunition inventory stockpiled at storage depots throughout the U.S.
Baan up for sale
Invensys is divesting several businesses, including the enterprise resource planning software company, Baan, in order to focus on production management its rail systems business.
Wal-Mart shuts down bar code pranksters
A Web site that encouraged consumers to cut their grocery bills by substituting their own bar code labels has shut itself down under pressure from Wal-Mart Inc.
AIDC Technical Institute planned
The Center for Automatic Identification at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, will conduct its 17th annual Automatic Identification Data Capture Technical Institute (AIDCTI) July 27 through Aug. 1, 2003. Dr. Jim Fales, founder of the AIDCTI, will conduct the institute.
Psion Teklogix and Lab-ID partner to increase retailer profitability
Psion Teklogix, an Ontario-based supplier of rugged mobile computing devices and wireless LAN systems, and Lab-ID, the Bologna, Italy-based provider of transponder systems, have partnered to produce RFID reader technology for supply chain management in the retail industry.
PSC settles disputes with Symbol Technologies
PSC Inc., Portland, Ore., has settled its current legal disputes with Symbol Technologies Inc., Holtsville, N.Y.
Kroger Joins UCCnet
The Kroger Co., Cincinnati, one of the nation’s largest retail grocery chains, will begin implementing the UCCnet’s item registration services for its 2,488 supermarkets and multi-department stores in 32 states this year.
Companies aspire to real-time enterprise objectives, but doubt it will happen
By the end of 2003, more than 20% of Global 2000 enterprise CIOs will cite real-time enterprise (RTE) as one of their top five investment areas, according to Gartner Inc., Stamford, Conn.
Frequent users of WLANs to total 4.2 million in 2003, Gartner predicts
The mobile industry will benefit from the rapid adoption of wireless LANs (WLANs), with the number of frequent WLAN users in North America growing from 4.2 million in 2003 to more than 31 million in 2007, says Gartner, Inc., Stamford, Conn.