Labor shortages, driver retention and capacity restraints are some of the issues facing supply chain providers today. Kristi Montgomery, VP of Innovation at KENCO Logistics Services, will be discussing how emerging technologies are helping to overcome these issues at the WERC Annual Conference for Logistics Professionals April 28 – May 1 in Columbus, OH.
Three providers of different emerging technologies will be on hand for a panel discussion moderated by Montgomery. She said, “They’re all doing very interesting things in our space…these emerging technologies are starting to really impact the supply chain.”
Uber Freight, whom Montgomery said is “disrupting the freight industry using mobile technologies and data.” LogistiVIEW, who has an augmented-reality “vision enablement solution” that can be connected to a warehouse management system and provide pictures of the product as well as the barcode information. “It’s a real boost for quality and accuracy as well as cutting training time to almost nothing,” said Montgomery. And finally, Fetch Robotics, “one of the first collaborative robotics developers that have built supply chain robotics in various formats,” said Montgomery. They have mobile picking cart robots, all the way to large pallet moving robots, and according to Montgomery, are “disrupting what is happening with moving product on the floor of a traditional warehouse.”
