Category: Technology

As Financiers Argue Over Bitcoin, Others See Potential for Blockchain in the Supply Chain

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October 18, 2017

By now, most of us have heard about Bitcoin, a digital currency that divides opinion in the finance sector. But while Bitcoin is alternately being hailed as the future or decried as a fraud, its underlying blockchain technology is the real treasure for other industries.

So what are the potential applications for blockchain in the supply chain environment?

That’s one of the questions we’ll explore in this article, as well as the potential restrictions and downsides of the technology.  Continue reading As Financiers Argue Over Bitcoin, Others See Potential for Blockchain in the Supply Chain

Fulfillment Technology: How Sophisticated Should Your Tech Get?

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March 24, 2016

If you’re anyone other than Amazon, it might feel like you’re constantly behind the curve of advances in fulfillment technology. Whether it’s robots and drones or Big Data and cloud computing, the rapid evolution of supply chain tech makes it tough to keep up with your reading on the subject, let alone actually taking action that could benefit your business.

Thankfully, not every headline has to mean a new headache for your fulfillment team. Continue reading Fulfillment Technology: How Sophisticated Should Your Tech Get?

Fulfillment Fundamentals: Appropriate Technology

July 1, 2015

We recently held a webinar to explore the fundamental elements of order fulfillment. Capacity’s co-founder and CSO Thom Campbell identified five key areas to focus on if you truly want to develop a fulfillment process that keeps customers coming back to your business time and time again.

To follow up on that event we’re unpacking each of these elements in more detail. Today we look at the importance of using the most suitable order fulfillment technology to ensure that you can deliver on your fulfillment promises to customers. You can read the rest of the entries in this compelling series under the tag Fulfillment Fundamentals. Continue reading Fulfillment Fundamentals: Appropriate Technology

Capacity at CES 2015: 1/7/15

January 7, 2015

All this week we’ll be bringing you a selection of the vast (and we do mean V–A–S–T) array of electronics on display at CES 2015.

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Leaving winter behind in NYC

Capacity LLC’s Chief Strategy Office and co-founder Thom Campbell left the wintry weather on the East coast and successfully made his way to Las Vegas yesterday, ready to talk logistics tech with anyone facing supply chain challenges in the coming year.

We’ll be bringing you his best photo-journalism here, but for the deeper discussion around supply chain technology you’ll need to track down Thom at the event itself.

Email us at sales@capacityllc.com if you’d like to arrange a time and place!

And now, on with the show…


 

 

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A relatively short line for the monorail (en route to join the masses)

 

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The most efficient transportation around the exhibition hall?

 

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Home security and the cloud. Internet of Things will be big at CES 2015.

 

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Color Block brighten up our day.

 

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Indoor drones! Coming soon, to a warehouse near you?

These Under Armour Gear cases defied both gravity and anti-gravity…

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Back seat drivers?

 

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Of course we took a peek behind the scenes to look at the logistics of International CES.
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Elvis was bound to turn up sooner rather than later…
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So much to see it could drive you up the wall!

Again, if you’d like to get in touch with Thom this week at CES, contact our sales team on sales@capacityllc.com or fill in this quick contact form.

Plan for Tomorrow's Supply Chain Technology at CES 2015

January 2, 2015

“Planning is bringing the future into the present, so that you can do something about it now.”

~Alan Lakein

More than ever, technology requires us to consider what will happen tomorrow, today. Though supply chain operations are rooted in proven, reliable systems, technology is inextricably linked to logistics and drives rapid change here just as much as it does in other industries.

Next week we’ll be at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2015) in Las Vegas, all set to take in the next big trends in tech. We’re also eager to talk to technology-oriented companies about how our advanced EDI and order systems enhance supply chains just like yours, driving quicker delivery lead times and cutting waste from the fulfillment process.

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Just as tech companies need to keep on the cutting edge of their market, logistics providers like us must stay up to speed on the latest, greatest ways to move your products seamlessly through the supply chain and out to your customers as efficiently as possible. It’s the base that great technology brands are built on.

What happens, for example, if your customer wants your product so much that they’re pay a premium to have it delivered to their door within the hour?

That’s not the future, it’s on offer today in New York City from Master & Dynamic, a top of the range audio technology brand with whom we work to satisfy customer demand almost instantaneously. It’s the cutting edge of order fulfillment technology that everyone from local business to global e-commerce companies like Amazon are eagerly pursuing as a standard service.

supply chain technologySame-day and even within-the-hour delivery?

That’s instant gratification for a grateful customer, but that’s the kind of spontaneity that requires extensive planning and precision execution on your part!

If you’ll be at CES 2015 as well – or if you could simply use some help bringing your supply chain up to speed for 2015 – we’d love to talk to you about the latest supply chain technology. Let’s have a conversation that makes you rethink the old adage “what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.” These are solutions that you’ll want to take home and talk about.

You can call our sales team (732-745-7770 and select option 3) or e-mail sales@capacityllc.com to set up a meeting.

Here’s to a prosperous and increasingly efficient year ahead for your business!