News / If the glove fits: wearable devices set to improve warehouse operations

Battling low margins and supply chain disruptions, the warehouse industry has long suffered with a “transient” workforce, which are either too bored, too “seasonal”, or too low-paid to make training worthwhile.

In response, companies are seeking to plug the gap with technology such as including wearable devices.

Chief product officer of ProGlove, Ilhan Kolko, described his company’s wearable device, a scanner the size of a matchbox, as an enabler of “micro-efficiencies”.

“When we put it on the back of the hand of the ...