For Balloon’s charity challenge 2019, a couple of weekends ago, a group of staff took on the Welsh Three Peaks Challenge in aid of Alzheimer’s Society. The success of last year’s challenge to climb Ben Nevis gave the team a real boost in the run up to the weekend. Most of those from last year […]
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Balloon One are excited to announce our new partnership with VJ Technology in the past Quarter! Please join us in welcoming VJ Technology to our fast-developing community of Warehouse Management System (WMS) customers! VJ Technology distributes and manufactures fasteners, tools, fixing systems and associated products to the UKs construction and civil engineering industries. Customers of
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In the Gartner 2019 Magic Quadrant *, HighJump has now been rated as a Leader for warehouse management systems. The company has improved its positioning, having previously been rated as a Challenger. The company said, “To HighJump, the results exemplify the company’s dedication and ability to empower businesses worldwide with the connected and automated supply
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The emergence of warehouse robots and automation causes both excitement and concern in the logistics industry. A couple of years ago, Elon Musk said that robots would disrupt jobs, because they “will be able to do everything better than us. … I mean all of us”. And he predicted that it would be transport operators
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If you’d have said the phrase “omnichannel warehouses” five years ago, pretty much no-one would have known what you were on about. Even just a couple of years ago the concept was only just emerging. While providing an omnichannel shopping experience has been a reality for much longer than that, it is only recently that
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These days, almost everybody wants to be more eco-friendly in their business practices, but many people think doing their bit for the environment will have a detrimental impact on their bottom line. Kelly Friel, from equipment and tools specialist Zoro, is here to explain why that doesn’t have to be the case. Busy warehouses can
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There are many benefits of WMS in the cloud. Only a decade ago we were talking about the use of the cloud as something new and exciting. But it’s clear that the cloud is mainstream in business these days. The supply chain industry is no exception. IDC Futurescape predicts that 80% of supply chain interactions
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There are hundreds of warehouses in the UK, utilising millions of square feet of storage. Across those facilities, many are making some common warehouse mistakes. Are you? Reliance on paperwork It’s surprising how many warehouse operations still rely so heavily on paperwork. Even very large ecommerce businesses are still printing out picking sheets for their
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The rise of ecommerce has brought dramatic changes to the warehousing sector. The rapid growth of both B2B and B2C ecommerce has triggered a revolution in customer expectations. In turn, this has required innovation and change from distributors. As a nation, the UK is the largest online spender in Europe, so it’s unsurprising that it’s
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2D barcodes are invaluable. They represent a significant advance over traditional 1D barcodes, the linear ones with the varying widths of vertical lines. Thanks to the amount of data they can store, they are set to become the norm in warehousing. The invention of the barcode Barcodes were patented in 1952, by Americans Norman Joseph
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