Industry First

For Palletline



UK logistics company Palletline has announced another industry first with the introduction of an innovative combined scanning and image capture technology at its three hubs.

This £500,000 investment underlines our commitment to the continual innovation and use of ground breaking technology to drive speed and efficiency throughout the network.

The bespoke equipment represents a new era for the Pallet Network industry and injects added efficiency to operational processes. The new hand held equipment speeds up scanning and quality control procedures within the Hub as well as increasing freight visibility and contributing towards automating exception and claims handling.

The Palletline IT team worked alongside a number of potential suppliers to identify leading edge technology which met our requirement for scanning and discrepancy photography using one hand held unit. However with no other network achieving this level of integration, the combined technology did not exist in the market.

Undeterred, Palletline IT commissioned UK technology partner, Belgravium, to create a bespoke unit combining the best technology available. The result is a hand held unit capable of long range scanning and image capture, enabling any discrepancies to be annotated and uploaded to our central system in seconds.

The resultant time savings are dramatic. Using the new equipment, scanning time per vehicle is now less than 3 minutes, including reporting of any discrepancies. This improves the overall efficiency and focus on quality control at our Hubs.

However, Palletline Plc are not stopping there. The hand held equipment will be provided to all of our members, free of charge, to enable them to benefit from the technological efficiencies at each Depot location throughout Britain.

The benefits to customers is immense, in addition to further improving our industry leading scanning levels, Palletline say they will have utter confidence that every pallet is tracked throughout the process.

Any quality control issues noted, at any point throughout the journey will be captured and uploaded to Palletline's central system instantaneously. This allows more effective communication and enables members to view images online, and even forward these on to their customers.