The new name better captures the company’s vision and mission to help the global supply chain ecosystem drive innovation and growth.

The partnership also aims to shape and accelerate new business models of the future, such as freight hailing, secure logistics and smart goods, as well as tracking with sensor data.

This merger provides the supply chain industry a range of warehouse automation products and support services.

All the data gathered at these disparate edges can be sent up to private or public clouds or data centers, where it is aggregated and analyzed to drive planning and logistics for optimization and continuous improvement.

Four-fifths of the companies participating in the survey replied that fresh products are “very important” to their businesses.

The software-as-a-service (SaaS) company creates network dynamics and leverages machine learning to create autonomous systems for quality and compliance monitoring.

The collaboration delivers a service center empowered with a more complete history of the asset to drive timely and efficient repairs and maintenance.

The challenging part retailers face is that even if they’re large enough to have a dedicated internal IT department, the focus remains on tying business operations to the IT function.