TradingProduce.com continues to set the pace in business-to-business, e-commerce solutions for the perishable food industry with the announcement of hand-held wireless Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) technology that can be utilized in the field for inspection (bird-dogging) and logistics.
Symeo(TM) Incorporated has developed the software technology, Mobilbridge(TM), and TradingProduce.com provides the portal for field inspectors and the transportation industry to download and upload reports, digital images, bar code information and bills of lading.
"People doing field inspections can download the format of reports they need to file, fill out the information on the report, and attach any images they need to," explained TradingProduce.com Chief Technical Officer Zia Zahiri. "Then, with the touch of a button, they can download that information to the TradingProduce.com portal. The buyer can than click on the product in which they are interested and immediately get the report with real-time images.
"At the shipping or receiving dock, the passing of the product can be confirmed, including the amount shipped and received and pictures of the goods, both before shipping and at delivery. We are enabling technology to make the flow of information faster, easier and mobile. This is another step to eliminate the paperwork involved."
Mobilbridge(TM) enables the capture of bar codes and digital images, video clips, and sound bytes as well as text. Its patent-pending funnel technology automatically associates diverse input streams, such as images from a digital camera, with the appropriate fields on a web page so the information can be uploaded. When the connection is made to the TradingProduce.com portal, all data submitted offline -- text, images, video and audio -- can be transferred by merely clicking the submit button on the hand-held device, or PDA.
"Inspectors in, for example, the Salinas Valley can do field reports that can be viewed in real-time with digital images of the product in Europe," said TradingProduce.com Chief Executive Officer Rob Bonavito. "This value-added capability is available now to allow our members to have instantaneous access to field inspection reports, loading information and transportation."
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