Technology & The Logistics Industry

The Future is Now

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.