alliances
Bastian Solutions, a global material handling systems
integrator, will become a partner integrator with robotic
material handling company Seegrid Corp. Bastian has
also announced a partnership with Jakob Hatteland
Computer AS to distribute the company’s AutoStore
product in North America. … Logistics service provider
National Retail Systems Inc. has been selected by Pep
Boys, the national automotive aftermarket service and
retail chain, to provide an import container transload
solution at the Port of Savannah, Ga. … Sealed Air Corp.
and Ecovative Design LLC have agreed to expand their
existing relationship to produce, sell, and distribute
Ecovative’s Mushroom Packaging in Europe. … Penske
Logistics will join Capgemini Consulting, Penn State’s
Center for Supply Chain Research, Korn/Ferry
International, and eyefortransport in sponsoring the
2014 edition of the Annual Third-Party Logistics Study. …
Lucas Systems, a provider of voice-directed warehouse
applications, has added Technology Recovery Group
(TRG) to the Lucas Systems Voice Partner Program. TRG
and Lucas will jointly deliver Jennifer VoicePlus solutions
from Lucas on open, industry-standard mobile comput-
ers. … Rip Media Group will create a video for Cheetah
Software Systems Inc. that will explain the key product
differentiators of Cheetah’s cloud-based logistics opera-
tions optimization platform. … ASDA, the second largest
supermarket chain in the United Kingdom, has installed
Swisslog’s AutoStore automated goods-to-person mate-
rial handling system in its Integrated Distribution Centre
in Lutterworth, England. … After deploying Vocollect
Voice, Fox Head Inc., a maker of motorcross apparel, has
achieved a 90-percent productivity improvement from
interleaving cycle counting with picking and a 20- to 25-
percent productivity improvement from interleaving
voice with replenishment. … Mettler Toledo and Tanaka
Scale Works Co. Ltd. have formed a partnership. Mettler
Toledo’s Powercell brand load cells will now be integrat-
ed into all of Tanaka Scale’s vehicle weighing applica-
tions. … Pepsi New Haven, which distributes more than
300 beverage products in Missouri, has chosen the
HighJump Oasis 5.0 route accounting system. Pepsi New
Haven will use the system, which is tailored for soft drink
distributors, to manage its routes, handheld computing
devices, and driver schedules.
