Asda hails new Renovotec Innovation Centre for companies operating throughout supply chain
Renovotec, a UK-based provider of end-to-end AIDC technology solutions and services for organisations operating throughout the supply chain, has launched an innovation centre at its 6,288 sq. ft facility based at the firm’s head office in Newton-Le-Willows, near Warrington.
Open to all customers and visitors, this showcases Renovotec’s latest solutions and features dedicated industry zones for manufacturing, warehousing, transport and logistics, healthcare and retail.
Richard Gilliard, Managing Director at Renovotec, says: “The Renovotec Innovation Centre (RIC) is so much more than a demonstration space – it’s a tool for brainstorming, visualising and strategy planning.”
“Customers can experience first-hand how our solutions can give real-time visibility into industry-specific business challenges. The RIC acts as a sector wide business transformation hub to learn how to most effectively manage people and assets, improve efficiencies and profitability and revolutionise supply chain business operations.”
Ryan Wilby, Engineering Manager at Asda, a Renovotec customer attending the RIC launch event today, comments: “The RIC offers us the opportunity to interactively review a range of products from the latest and the greatest manufacturers in the marketplace in one space.”
“This is truly unique and a huge value-add service from Renovotec. It saves us time, resources, and arms us with the most thorough and in-depth insight into the productivity and efficiency benefits of new mobile device technology, and alternative tools for our frontline.”
“It essentially enables us to quickly consolidate and upscale our technology for maximum ROI – so we can deliver on our promise to our customers to keep our prices as low as possible.”
In conjunction with its key partners including Zebra Technologies, Honeywell, Datalogic and SOTI, technology is being showcased at the event across all the aforementioned industry zones.
For retail, predictive AI will take centre stage with grocery self-service scanners in action that can identify objects in addition to barcodes and removes the need for search screens. (Datalogic Magellan 9800i).
For the warehouse or DC, there will be a showcase of tablets and rugged hardware to capture the essence of the best and latest technologies for the supply chain and Renovotec’s ecosystem of partners featuring Honeywell, Zebra, Advantech, Newland, Handheld and Getac.
Synergy Logistics, a Renovotec partner for 15 years delivering ruggedised hardware, printers and value-added devices for warehouse and logistics environments, is supporting the RIC launch today.
Anish Mackan, Chief Technical Officer at Synergy Logistics, says: “The RIC is the one and only multi-vendor, multi-technology innovation centre in the marketplace, allowing customers to visualise what's available now and get insight into what's coming soon from several hardware and technology solution providers to drive efficiency and value within their business.”
“With rising costs and labour shortages, it's becoming difficult for supply chain vendors to absorb these escalating costs. Choosing the right automation platform and a WMS capable of managing multi-orchestration platforms and solutions is vital.”
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