In an official signing ceremony held recently, FAST Logistics, a trailblazer in the Philippine supply chain industry, sealed its partnership deal on hardware solutions with Honeywell, the leading manufacturer of industrial automation and control technologies. Present at the signing were Honeywell Country Business Leader for Productivity Solutions Brad S. Santiago, FAST Services CEO Manuel Onrejas, and FAST Group CIO Jason Ngo.
“FAST’s quest to offer the world’s best solutions to our customers in the fast-changing digital landscape led us to global technology leader, Honeywell. And as it turns out, Honeywell has also been looking for a leading logistics group to work within their expansion in the Philippines,” shared Fast Group CIO Jason Ngo.
FAST and Honeywell began their collaboration two years ago when FAST selected the latter’s Warehouse Management System (WMS) for the digital transformation of its customers’ supply chains.
What’s more, the partnership will give FAST customers access to a suite of industry-leading solutions from Honeywell including software, hardware, and other services. It supports FAST’s initiatives to offer its FMCG, retail, and e-commerce customers the ability to leverage state-of-the-art management systems for real-time visibility and optimized productivity across distribution centers (DC).
The partnership also leverages FAST’s application of innovations. As Ngo cites, “for particular solutions, like Honeywell’s voice-picking technology, FAST is the only local system implementor having pioneered its use in the Philippines years ago.”
This year, FAST is scheduled to roll out the digitalization of several sites into intelligent distribution and fulfillment centers using these improvements in IT to better their warehouse and logistics support.
FAST Services CEO Manuel Onrejas added, “The partnership will give FAST and its customers access to global best practices, groundbreaking innovations, and predictive technologies that make solving tomorrow’s problems possible. This brings us a step towards our vision of developing an intelligent distribution center—one which is more productive, efficient, and able to adapt quickly when business demands change. And in the process, lead to better cost structures in the supply chain of our customers.”
