In the past four sections of this series on The Wireless Intranet, we've looked at the programming languages and technical requirements you'll need to know in order to make your company's intranet accessible for field workers. Now it's time for a hard dose of reality. Imperfect national coverage and competing standards, for a start.
Advantage never takes possession of the actual goods.
Instead, they do the leg work of setting up orders and deliveries. According to Kat Lemons, the National Web Department Manager for Advantage, the grocery marketing industry made a giant shift three years back. For the thirty years prior to that, grocery brokers worked locally, supplying only the businesses in their area. The shift to national coverage happened at the suppliers' request. They preferred to work with large companies that could service stores on a national level, rather than maintain relationships with small companies in each market.