Zebra's Industry Solutions can give your business a competitive advantage by connecting people, assets and data to help you make better decisions.
Scale and energise your retail strategy with a digital backbone that unifies your team, informs priorities and drives results with Zebra's retail technology solutions.
Zebra's healthcare technology solutions provide patient identity management, mobile health devices, and business intelligence data to improve efficiency.
Zebra’s manufacturing technology solutions enable manufacturers to become more agile, optimise plant floor performance and embrace market changes.
Zebra's market-leading solutions and products improve customer satisfaction with a lower cost per interaction by keeping service representatives connected with colleagues, customers, management and the tools they use to satisfy customers across the supply chain.
In today's world, the demands on transportation and logistics companies are higher than ever. Dedicated Warehouse, Fleet and Delivery, and Yard and Terminal solutions enable visibility to every aspect of your business and keep operations running flawlessly around the clock.
Zebra's hospitality technology solutions equip your hotel and restaurant staff to deliver superior customer and guest service through inventory tracking and more.
Empower your field workers with purpose-driven mobile technology solutions to help them capture and share critical data in any environment.
Technology is a key enabler in helping the Public Sector provide their frontline and back office workers automate business process and assets with a digital voice.
Zebra’s mobile computing, scanning, and printing solutions connect each operational area in your warehouse to give you the agility to realize transformational gains.
Zebra's range of mobile computers equip your workforce with the devices they need from handhelds and tablets to wearables and vehicle-mounted computers.
Zebra's desktop, mobile, industrial, and portable printers for barcode labels, receipts, RFID tags and cards give you smarter ways to track and manage assets.
Zebra's 1D and 2D corded and cordless barcode scanners anticipate any scanning challenge in a variety of environments, whether retail, healthcare, T&L or manufacturing.
Zebra's extensive range of RAIN RFID readers, antennas, and printers give you consistent and accurate tracking.
Choose Zebra's reliable barcode, RFID and card supplies carefully selected to ensure high performance, print quality, durability and readability.
Zebra's location technologies provide real-time tracking for your organisation to better manage and optimise your critical assets and create more efficient workflows.
Zebra's rugged tablets and 2-in-1 laptops are thin and lightweight, yet rugged to work wherever you do on familiar and easy-to-use Windows or Android OS.
With Zebra's family of fixed industrial scanners and machine vision technologies, you can tailor your solutions to your environment and applications.
Discover Zebra’s range of accessories from chargers, communication cables to cases to help you customise your mobile device for optimal efficiency.
Zebra's OEM scan engines, imagers, and private label OEM products offer flexible integration and help enhance product development with modern OEM technology.
Zebra's environmental sensors monitor temperature-sensitive products, offering data insights on environmental conditions across industry applications.
Keep labour costs low, your talent happy and your organisation compliant. Create an agile operation that can navigate unexpected schedule changes and customer demand to drive sales, satisfy customers and improve your bottom line.
Empower the front line with prioritised task notification and enhanced communication capabilities for easier collaboration and more efficient task execution.
Get full visibility of your inventory and automatically pinpoint leaks across all channels.
Reduce uncertainty when you anticipate market volatility. Predict, plan and stay agile to align inventory with shifting demand.
Drive down costs while driving up employee, security, and network performance with software designed to enhance Zebra's wireless infrastructure and mobile solutions.
Explore Zebra’s printer software to integrate, manage and monitor printers easily, maximising IT resources and minimising down time.
Make the most of every stage of your scanning journey from deployment to optimization. Zebra's barcode scanner software lets you keep devices current and adapt them to your business needs for a stronger ROI across the full lifecycle.
RFID development, demonstration and production software and utilities help you build and manage your RFID deployments more efficiently.
RFID development, demonstration and production software and utilities help you build and manage your RFID deployments more efficiently.
Zebra DNA is the industry’s broadest suite of enterprise software that delivers an ideal experience for all during the entire lifetime of every Zebra device.
Advance your digital transformation and execute your strategic plans with the help of the right location and tracking technology.
The Zebra Aurora suite of machine vision software enables users to solve their track-and-trace, vision inspection and industrial automation needs.
Zebra Aurora Focus brings a new level of simplicity to controlling enterprise-wide manufacturing and logistics automation solutions. With this powerful interface, it’s easy to set up, deploy and run Zebra’s Fixed Industrial Scanners and Machine Vision Smart Cameras, eliminating the need for different tools and reducing training and deployment time.
Aurora Imaging Library™, formerly Matrox Imaging Library, machine-vision software development kit (SDK) has a deep collection of tools for image capture, processing, analysis, annotation, display, and archiving. Code-level customization starts here.
Aurora Design Assistant™, formerly Matrox Design Assistant, integrated development environment (IDE) is a flowchart-based platform for building machine vision applications, with templates to speed up development and bring solutions online quicker.
Designed for experienced programmers proficient in vision applications, Aurora Vision Library provides the same sophisticated functionality as our Aurora Vision Studio software but presented in programming language.
Aurora Vision Studio, an image processing software for machine & computer vision engineers, allows quick creation, integration & monitoring of powerful OEM vision applications.
Adding innovative tech is critical to your success, but it can be complex and disruptive. Professional Services help you accelerate adoption, and maximise productivity without affecting your workflows, business processes and finances.
Zebra's Managed Service delivers worry-free device management to ensure ultimate uptime for your Zebra Mobile Computers and Printers via dedicated experts.
Find ways you can contact Zebra Technologies’ Support, including Email and Chat, ask a technical question or initiate a Repair Request.
Zebra's Circular Economy Program helps you manage today’s challenges and plan for tomorrow with smart solutions that are good for your budget and the environment.
*This post was contributed by Kelly Cardona, Marketing Director, Linea Data Scan, a Zebra Premier Solution partner.
Currently, Colombia has one of the strongest floriculture sectors of any country in the world, as it has over 1,600 flower varieties and natural conditions that allow it to have high-quality and very aesthetic harvests. It is the second largest flower exporter in the world and the main supplier to the United States, with over 93% of U.S. flower imports occurring from Colombia. This market position increases the commercial value of its flowers, which is beneficial to growers. However, having such a global reputation requires that resources remain focused on maintaining the product's category and quality over time.
Of course, any company in this sector must focus its efforts on facing the main challenges posed by market demands, both domestically and internationally. But companies in Colombia must be especially proactive in assessing and, if needed, re-engineering their cold chains if they are to uphold their reputation for the highest quality and highest volume inventory.
One of the main challenges is the transportation and logistics of the flowers, as they are fragile and the quality can easily degrade while in transit if the cold chain is not properly established and maintained. Thus, the logistics chain, particularly "last mile" operations, must be executed with well-established time margins in order to reduce the setbacks that are always present in product deliveries not only in the flower sector, but in all economic sectors.
Another big challenge is that the costs of exporting flowers are currently high due to the fact that electronic goods are in greater demand and ports give priority to goods that generate the most movement. This is especially true in Asian countries where electronics merchandise is predominant in both production and trade.
That said, logistics makes up 50% of the floriculture sector, so companies must establish an effective logistics chain with the purpose of satisfying and promoting the low domestic demand, regardless of the cost. Additionally, they must find ways to manage exports to the main countries that have a high demand for flowers in an agile manner, especially leading up to special dates such as Valentine’s Day or Mother’s Day in the U.S. Once these holidays are celebrated, flowers lose their value. Delivering them on time becomes crucial in this sector.
For this reason, technology is actually the main ally of the floricultural sector on two important fronts: production and logistics. Both must be operating on the same technology system since one operation relies on the other. There is no point in having a high-quality production operation if you don't have a way to distribute inventory properly. Likewise, it is useless to have a strong logistical structure but with unaesthetic or low-quality products, which in the end, will not create demand.
In terms of production, technology optimizes production and storage processes while facilitating the roles of workers and achieving greater productivity and efficiency. And logistics is optimized on several fronts:
Tasks such as labeling, inventory control and product dispatch report improvements in accuracy and time optimization when technology is used, in some cases eliminating 99% of human error.
Transportation of products to the final destination, for which technology drives improvements in delivery management, real-time visualization of products and overall fleet management.
If you have access to technological tools that optimize the results of your processes, you will have a significant advantage over companies that do not implement technology to ensure quality, compliance, and profitability.
If you have a company in the floricultural sector, I encourage you to visit our website and check out the technological solutions that we specifically offer for this sector. We can also connect you with other companies in the sector that have used technology to improve outcomes so you can learn from their experiences and replicate their systems if it makes sense for your business.
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