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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As both technology and consumer demands have changed over recent years, the logistics industry has had to adapt. And numerous disruptions have accelerated the industry’s evolution. We look at the drivers of the logistics industry’s transformation and how these are shaping logistics. Consumer experience of ecommerce has changed business expectations Thanks to the consumer revolution
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Retail has evolved quickly in the ecommerce era. Take Amazon. It started as an online bookshop. Then it developed into a multi-products retailer with its own marketplace that others can sell on. And now the company is testing drone delivery, has a store where you don’t even have to use the tills and is pioneering
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As a distributor, your profits are being squeezed. Despite enjoying a significant growth in revenue from ecommerce, you have likely seen an increase in the number of small parcel consignments you send. This, together with customer expectations of ever quicker delivery, will have required a change in your delivery strategy. Like many others, you will
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What does 2019 have in store for companies involved in wholesale and distribution? Last year, we predicted that the focal points of distribution trends for 2018 would be technology and customer-centricity. We foresaw an increase in the use of warehouse robotics and automation. And we felt that distributors would increasingly look to put their customers
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Falsified medicines are counterfeited drugs sold as the real thing to unsuspecting members of the public. They present a risk to health and are of concern to both the pharmaceutical industry and to governments across the world. Fake medicines not only cost the pharmaceutical companies substantial amounts of money, but they also pose a serious
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The benefits of automated route planning The two main benefits of automated route planning systems are that they save time and also focus on a single parameter, such as cost or service. Manual route planning is time-consuming, especially where large numbers of routes need to be planned and scheduled. Being able to automate your route
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HighJump released its latest version of its WMS platform, Warehouse Edge, at the beginning of the year. The new release supports cross-device functionality and adds real-time actionable analytics data. We already have a UK customer live on the new version of HighJump Warehouse Edge, having migrated their systems to the new release in the second
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Between the end of the Second World War and the beginning of the financial crisis in 2008, the UK saw a steady growth in productivity of around 2% a year. But since 2008, the UK’s productivity has only been growing at the same pace that it was at before the industrial revolution. And for the
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