Numerex and Enfora (News - Alert) have announced an agreement with Intelligent Global Pooling Systems (iGPS) to provide global monitoring of its all-plastic pallets through the use of the Numerex (News - Alert) WorldPass global network service.

iGPS operates what it says is the world's first and only pallet rental service providing shippers and receivers with all-plastic pallets with embedded RFID tags. Since its entry into the market in 2006, a growing number of companies have switched from wood pallets to iGPS' offer. Among other advantages over wood pallets, iGPS customers have the ability to discretely track the location of each unitized load of products throughout the supply chain.

Jack Sparn, CIO at iGPS, said, " Numerex’s network service provides seamless connectivity and support for our pallet tracking solution worldwide. "Numerex and Enfora collaborated with our development teams to bring our world-class solution, which is integrated with our own tracking and tracing capabilities, to market. This teamwork has already paid off and brought about tangible results since we have been able in a short period of time to recover assets, which would have been otherwise lost, for a total value exceeding one million dollars."

Enfora offers world-class smart devices and intelligent management platforms for an array of applications spanning various vertical markets. Mark Weinzierl, president of Enfora, said, "The smart solution was developed in collaboration with iGPS in order to provide its customers with ongoing monitoring of their pallets in order to generate operational efficiencies and to locate pallets for possible retrieval. We have been monitoring early implementation closely and currently see an 80 percent recovery rate of pallets without field assistance.”

Stratton Nicolaides, chairman and CEO of Numerex, said, "Numerex continues to strengthen its international network reach through infrastructure upgrades and new strategic alliances. We believe that iGPS' vision of building intelligence into a logistics environment through the pallet addresses supply chain monitoring challenges represents an unprecedented development and we are excited by the prospects of this global solution initiative."