East Granby, CT -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/02/2013 -- Loss of Material Handling Equipment (MHE) is one of the most pressing issues facing the baking industry today. Millions of dollars are lost in baskets trays and racks annually. Most tracking solutions for this equipment are often too expensive; there are so many units which require tracking. Marc Braun, President of Pcdata USA explained how their MHE tracking solutions is a spinoff from solving a related, but different problem.

Braun explained, “Through our logistics automation solutions we trace product to the final delivery point. Because we know how many units to each MHE, we know exactly how many MHE were delivered to any given delivery point. During product drops, drivers confirm the amount of product which simultaneously identifies what MHE has been delivered at a site through the Proof of Delivery handheld application. The driver then uses the same handheld unit to enter how many empty dollies, baskets, trays and racks are loaded back onto the truck. Overtime, a profile builds of which drop points are problematic and which are not.”

Pcdata USA will be exhibiting at the International Baking Industry Exposition (IBIE) from October 6-9 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Nevada at booth #4724. More than 20,000 baking professionals from every segment of the grain-based market will attend North America’s largest, most comprehensive trade event of the year.

Pcdata USA (http://www.pcdatausa.com/in-the-media/148-whitepaper-ibie) is a global logistics systems leader for supply chain automation. With more than six hundred systems successfully installed in more than thirty countries worldwide, Pcdata USA offers affordable both out-of-the-box and customized warehouse optimization specializing in Warehouse Management System (WMS) especially developed for Industrial Bakeries.

With Pcdata USA’s Distrib Warehouse Manager big efficiency improvements can be realized in environments where customer orders arrive very late in relation to the time of delivery or where customer orders are placed multiple times per day. Improvements will be realized when product availability is not known beforehand or does not exactly match the customer requirements, Distrib can recalculate the orders based on real time information to optimize order fulfillment and maximize customer satisfaction.

Pcdata USA’s Put to Light is a paperless dispatch system especially developed for an environment where a large range of products needs to be dispatched in a short time, for example perishable goods. In Distrib Put to Light products are sorted to customer locations, this makes this application suitable for "daily fresh" products, and environments where product availability versus delivery time is uncertain.

As soon as bread is wrapped, packed and stacked the product will be tagged. This tag can be used all the way up to delivery at the store to direct and verify the shipping process. Pcdata USA’s Lot Tracking / Batch Tracking will prevent lost product. Follow Pcdata USA on Twitter @pcdatausa.

Pcdata USA
www.pcdatainc.com
Jennifer Grimley
North American Bakery Solutions Manager
jennifer.grimley@pcdatainc.com
860-247-8353