Why Distributors should Envision an Image Enabled Supply Chain

Why Distributors should Envision an Image Enabled Supply Chain | LoadProof

At Smart Gladiator, we work continuously to improve our product. As part of that exercise, we recently decided to install a sensor in our product. Having finalized a product choice on the sensor, we ordered it from the vendor who was glad to send us the devices through UPS. We wanted to install, test, and deploy them to a customer as soon as possible.

We are a technology company located in the heart of Atlanta, within the Georgia Tech campus, part of this Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) that the state of Georgia supports. We work in a big building that house several companies like us. All of these companies go through a vetting process that verifies that they strive for innovation. Most are working to commercialize technology developed at the university by professions involved in cutting edge technology. Many dignitaries stop by our building and we get to participate in discussions with them.

Caption: At a round table meeting with Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and Mayor Kasim Reed at the ATDC.

This location is famously called the Tech Square. In addition to small innovative companies, the areas home to innovation centers of much bigger conglomerates such as Home Depot, Coca Cola, Southern Company, and most recently NCR. I say all this to make it clear: I am not in the middle of nowhere. I am right in the heart of a major metropolitan area.

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