TECHNOLOGY AND THE LOGISTICS INDUSTRY
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The Future is Now |
added Nov 21st, 2012 |
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When RBW began operations in 1954, the tools of the trade were, by todays standards, pretty primitive. Shipments and inventories were tracked with pencil and paper. Finances were calculated on a mechanical adding machine. Both the packing peanut and bubble wrap were yet to be invented. Things were different, but our goals were the same. Today you’ll still find pencils and paper in our office, but the adding machine has long since been retired and crumpled paper in corrugated cardboard boxed are no longer the packing standard. Technology hasn’t changed what we do, but it has certainly changed the way we do it. Today, logistics is an electronic industry. We are regulated by bar codes and microchips. Packing is as likely to incorporate space age polymers as it is the classic cardboard container. Does it mean we do things differently. Not really. But it does mean we can do things better and more efficiently. That’s important, and will continue to be important as technology – and the logistics industry – continues to move forward. |
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MIXING IT UP A BIT
Just like the solution to this puzzle, sometimes pushing your business forward simply requires making a few smart moves. While we were warehousing tea for Henry P. Thomson, they began to expand their product lines to offer more exotic mixes of tea. Rather than ship the tea to a secondary location, Henry P. Thomson built a custom tea-blending machine at our facility and outsources blending duties to us. We fondly refer to the machine as “Mr. Tea.” The result: increased profitability for HPT and 40,000 lbs. of tea blending a day for RBW.
FOUR GENERATIONS DEEP
Getting things from A to Z - and all points between - has been our mission since 1954. Our roots are in a downtown depot in Augusta, Ga., where we initially brokered and shipped sugar, chocolate and the locally produced Murray cookies (business was sweet) from 25,000 square feet of space.
It wasn’t long before our business expanded and, following the inclusion of E-Z-GO’s battery business, we decided the original depot digs seemed somewhat small. In 1969 ...
