NEWS & ARTICLES
You Might Have a Bad Warehouse If... You're Knock Knock Knocking on Container's Door
Mar, 2010
DC Velocity - By Kate Vitasek
"...The good news? Kraft has since adopted PINC Solutions’ Yard Hound management system, which provides real-time visibility of all yard activities and eliminates the need for manual yard checks, all on a web-based platform. You can read about their efforts by download this PowerPoint presentation...."
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Yard Management is in the PINC
March, 2009 MMH.com
By Bob Trebilcock
"PINC combines passive RFID tags with GPS technology and sensors to track the location of trailers. Passive technology is used because it’s cheaper than active technology: If a trailer leaves the yard with the active tag still in place, you might be losing a $40 or $50 tag – or more. Because they don’t have a battery, passive tags are a fraction of that cost. What’s more active technology requires the installation of its own infrastructure and communication network; passive technology can work with an existing WiFi network. So, while an active tag is constantly broadcasting its location, a passive tag in the PINC solution is little more than an identifier waiting to be read."
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Technology Review - Hide and Seek
February, 2009
DC Velocity - By Suzan K. Lacefield
"Until 2006, Kraft's trailer tracking activities looked more like a game of hide and seek than an orderly yard management process. Some low-cost RFID tags, software, and a GPS changed all that." "Perhaps most important of all, the PINC solution is helping Kraft better understand its own operations. "
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AWARD - RED HERRING GLOBAL 100 Award
Red Herring Website 
"For 10 years, Red Herring's editorial team has diligently surveyed entrepreneurship around the globe. Technology industry executives, investors, and observers have regarded the Red Herring 100 lists as an invaluable instrument to discover and advocate the promising startups that will lead the next wave of disruption and innovation."
Past award winners include Google, Yahoo!, Skype, Netscape, Salesforce.com, and YouTube.
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AWARD - FL100 FOOD LOGISTICS Magazine
Food Logistics Magazine by Katherine Dohrety
" The FL100 is an annual listing of top software, hardware and IT service providers that are helping grocery and foodservice manufacturers and distributors gain a competitive logistical advantage. The selection is based on the providers’ proven track record and expertise in providing food companies with technology and services to help them meet their business objectives regardless of their sizes."
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