Mobile printing in the warehouse allows operatives to print out wherever they are. Whether they are printing labels, barcodes, receipts or tickets, your workers aren’t restricted to a certain location when they want to print. Instead, you can equip them to be more mobile and to print on demand. A range of printers is available […]
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Wearable devices make undertaking warehouse tasks easier. All manner of wearable technology is available: headsets with microphones for voice picking; computers for receiving instructions and data entry; and body-worn scanners for logging items when picking or undertaking cycle counts and stock checks. How do wearable devices differ from standard rugged hardware? Wearable devices themselves are
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Voice picking in the warehouse brings many time-saving and efficiency benefits. It was once the preserve of large warehouse operations. Over time, though, technology has improved and prices have come down. So it’s now very well suited for all sizes of distribution and warehouse operations. What is voice picking? Using a headset, voice picking directs
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Balloon One are excited to announce our new partnership with CMS Distribution to provide a Warehouse Management System! Please join us in welcoming CMS Distribution to our fast-developing community of Warehouse Management System (WMS) customers. CMS Distribution is a leading IT distributor, supplying business and consumer technologies UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, France, Australia, China
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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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