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Gluing the virtual seams

It doesn’t matter whether the little black boxes of your supply chain are owned by a single company or spread across a network of outsourcing partners.

Communication, aided by today’s technology, is the key to gluing the seams of those boxes together — that is, the key to your successful compliance with industry standards and regulations.

At November’s Pack Expo 2014 in Chicago, software firm Nulogy and logistics firm GENCO unveiled the first fruits of their R&D partnership: a hardware-and-software workstation designed for the co-pack plant floor that combines Nulogy’s Software as a Service (SaaS or “cloud”) offerings with added bells and whistles from GENCO. The system ties line-level execution to management systems and out the virtual door to brand owners’ enterprise systems.

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