The Membership Drive Is On!
This year's membership drive is now underway, and as always, the competition will be intense.
In addition to valuable cash prizes, the winner now also receives the membership plaque, presented at the Annual Meeting. With the highly successful 2019 Annual Meeting now in the books, it is time to work toward 2020.
When you recruit new members, the entire WPA membership is the winner!
New members can join and pay on the website. Here is the link: www.westernpallet.org
JUNE 2020
The two experts have agreed to work together to develop insight into how to deploy Global Tracks’ IoT expertise in the context of the IPP Pool and the extensive data provided every time a pallet is used. The new solutions can be used to help make it easier for customers to work with IPP by digitalizing the data flows that up until now are provided in a more analog way. Based on the data available, IPP can gain insight into asset damage, usage, and loss. In the future, the connected pallet may become pivotal in new, unique applications and possibilities.
“In a reuse model it’s vitally important that we maximize recovery of pallets in a timely way,” stated Eric Schrover, CCO at IPP. “It’s what we do as poolers. At any given time, millions of pallets are being processed across the breadth of many supply chains.
"Any inefficiency in a pooling model can mean an enormous loss of value. IPP is focused on sustainable sourcing, efficiency improvement, waste reduction, and collaboration across the supply chain, in order to mitigate costs and environmental impact. By monitoring physical location and flows, we gain insight into process inefficiencies. We expect that Global Tracks will be instrumental in helping us to access such insight as part of our wider digitalization ambition.”
“These solutions that we are developing show that IoT is especially useful in highly traditional business processes and can even be applied to low-value assets,” added Ralf Heeremans, CEO at Global Tracks. “The potential of IoT is not limited to high tech companies. While the humble pallet has been in use since the 1940s, we are facing the challenge together with IPP of taking it into the 21st century. It’s all about efficiency with regards to future material handling, storage, and distribution.”
IPP, part of Faber Halbertsma Group, is a leading pallet pooling provider in Western Europe. It supplies over 50 million pallets annually.