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Robotic industrial trucks are driving efficiencies in Giant Eagle’s distribution centers. Here’s what the rest of us can learn from an early adopter of robotic technology.

Mobile robots keep product flowing at Giant Eagle’s retail support centers

Five crucial questions to ask and answer as you prepare your industrial environments to take full advantage of today’s rapidly expanding wireless communications opportunities.

Demystifying the Business and Technical Implications of the Next Generation of WLAN Technology.

How does your IT team today determine your company’s current industrial wireless system needs and assess whether they are being met? When was the last time the wireless network at your industrial sites was upgraded or refreshed – does it lag behind the deployment of new mobile devices or applications?

In our recent shopper survey, Shoppers today indicated that their top 5 uses of mobile phones in the store included: Looking up store information, Browsing online websites for products, Checking for sales, specials, or coupons, Looking for competitive pricing, and Using mobile coupons.

Sales associates in Lord & Taylor's flagship New York Fifth Avenue store now use RFID to automatically improve display sample inventory processes and visibility, and can attribute a 4% increase in sales to more complete floor displays.

Lord & Taylor faced an all-too-common retail problem: you can’t sell what you don’t show. In the fast-changing, high-turnover arena of fashion, hot items fly off the shelves – and unless the display floor is quickly and properly stocked, the next potential sales opportunity can fly away, too.

American Apparel was looking for a smarter way to meet their goals and, from what they had learned, item-level RFID looked like precisely the solution they wanted. Given the control the company has over its own manufacturing, distribution and retail operations, the plan was to reap the benefits of RFID not only on the retail floor, but throughout its closed loop supply chain.

At Scotts Miracle-Gro, a fleet management program keeps the pallets moving.

Lift trucks, stretch wrap and floor storage are at the heart of Scotts’ distribution activities.

With suppliers jumping on the RFID bandwagon and more deployments looming on the horizon, the future of RFID remains promising. Here are the market drivers that continue to push ADC/RFID adoption and examples of facilities that are putting it to work.

American Apparel was looking for a smarter way to meet their goals and, from what they had learned, item-level RFID looked like precisely the solution they wanted. Given the control the company has over its own manufacturing, distribution and retail operations, the plan was to reap the benefits of RFID not only on the retail floor, but throughout its closed loop supply chain.

When the athletic footwear maker flipped the switch on its 520,000-square-foot paperless DC it completely transformed the way it processed orders. Today its mobile equipment affords real-time inventory management, improved communication among floor supervisors, and new efficiencies in shipping operations.

Motorola Solutions (Booth 4576) introduced its next generation of rugged vehicle mount computers at ProMat.