Aptean has announced the acquisition of UK-based Paragon Software Systems (“Paragon”), a market-leading provider of transportation management software solutions serving the food and beverage, distribution and retail industries.

While it was once common for the majority of food and beverage warehouse managers to purchase standard storage racks that could be “quick-shipped” from rack manufacturers’ stocked inventory, this is occurring less often as racking becomes more specialized and regulations stricter.

The technology group GEA offers its spiral freezer series A-Tec and S-Tec for the food industry with the unique control technology CALLIFREEZE.

E-commerce and SKU proliferation pressure operations to provide access to vast inventories, but labor shortages can leave them scrambling for resources to handle critical storage and retrieval tasks.