Since November this year, the flower industry in the Netherlands is making use of one uniform FloraHolland flower trolley. As a result of this the flower industry will be able to optimize logistics considerably. At the same time FloraHolland introduced a new lock plate for the flower trolley equipped with a Radio Frequency IDentification chip (RFID).
For management of rental contracts of the new lock plates FloraHolland is making use of the software application AVALANCHE, product of TODAY IT. They are already making use of this application for the registration and management of the CC Container, an international pooling system of 3.5 million trolleys for the distribution of plants.
TODAY IT has develop AVALANCHE so FloraHolland is now making use of AVALANCHE for the CC Containers and the newly introduced lock plates for the flower trolley in one system.
Rhein-Maas, based in Straelen-Herongen in Germany is a joint-venture of FloraHolland from the Netherlands, and LandGard from Germany. Rhein-Maas is also making use AVALANCHE for their CC Containers and the flower trolley lock plates.
About TODAY IT
TODAY IT is based in Delft in the Netherlands and with their software application AVALANCHE they’re market leader in solutions for the management of returnable transport packaging (RTP’s).
TODAY IT is based in Delft in the Netherlands and with their software application AVALANCHE they’re market leader in solutions for the management of returnable transport packaging (RTP’s).
In various industries RTP’s like eg pallets, crates, trolleys and racks are managed efficiently by the implementation of AVALANCHE. The use of RTP’s is growing and because of this operational and financial responsibilities and risks are increasing throughout the supply chain. AVALANCHE is supporting this critical business processes by making use of the data available and translate this to useable information and atomization of various processes.
Beside the use of AVALANCHE in the international industry of flowers and plants, it’s also used in industries like the retail, aviation, logistics, pooling and automotive industry, in Europa and the United States.
Source: HortiBiz