On June 15, SupplyTech Breakthrough Awards announced TGW-founded start-up, PLANCISE, as the winner of Smart Warehouse Solution of the Year.
(Marchtrenk) On June 15, 2023 the 2nd annual SupplyTech Breakthrough Awards, which is a part of the Tech Breakthrough organization, announced PLANCISE as the winner of Smart Warehouse Solution of the Year. The Tech Breakthrough organization has been around for eight years now, providing market intelligence, research, and recognition programs in today’s more competitive categories of tech.
PLANCISE, a start-up founded by TGW Logistics Group, is developing innovative software for staff and shift planning within distribution centers, especially automated ones. While the material flow of modern distribution centers is well-planned and well-structured, the same is not yet true of its workforce. Currently, the insufficient tools available in the market, labor scarcity, and the competitive need to hit SLAs (Service Level Agreements) have all made it more difficult to manage staff – especially in a highly flexible way that can adapt to whatever is happening in distribution centers at the moment.

Several TGW Logistics Group customers from various industries are seeing strong results from PLANCISE during its current pilot program phase. Feedback includes:
These results were one of the key reasons PLANCISE was selected from over 1,400 nominations globally this year. “We are very pleased to receive the Smart Warehouse Solution of the Year award. It is a great confirmation of the innovative power of our software,” explains PLANCISE founder Thomas Mahringer.
About TGW Logistics Group:
TGW Logistics Group is a leading systems integrator of automated warehouse solutions. With over 50 years of experience the automation specialist designs, manufactures, implements, and maintains end-to-end fulfillment solutions for brands such as URBN, the Gap, and TVH.
TGW Logistics Group has subsidiaries in the US, Europe, and China and employs more than 4,400 people worldwide. In the 2021/22 fiscal year, the foundation-owned company generated a revenue of $924 million US dollars.
Contact:
TGW Systems Inc.
3001 Orchard Vista Dr SE STE 300, Grand Rapids, MI 49546
T: 616-970-7163
tgw@tgw-group.com
Press contact:
TGW North America:
Marissa Dierlam
Marketing Specialist
T: 616-648-7738
marissa.dierlam@tgw-group.com
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