Automated software upgrades Fountain of youth for warehouse management software Digital solutions require continuous updating. Particularly in the era of Industrie 4.0 it is of great importance for the imple- mented solutions to be kept continually up to date and not cause performance bottlenecks due to inconsistencies or missing upgrades. ForeverYoung is a service o昀昀ered by Swisslog for automatically migrating the SynQ warehouse management solution to the current version. The great advantages of this service are proving e昀昀ective in practical operation at Norwegian trading company Harlem Food. Alongside product quality, speed and solution to the most recent version �This service reduces downtime and flexibility are the most important every year so as to be able to use the errors resulting from incomplete demands to be met by food retailers. latest features of the platform and upgrades. As even minor updates are Modern trading companies can hardly also to support appropriately certified implemented promptly, the company satisfy these demands in the long term solutions from third-party vendors. As also avoids more extensive upgrade without sound digitization solutions. experience has shown that compatibility procedures. ForeverYoung really keeps Major players in this sector therefore problems may repeatedly arise in the SynQ continuously up to date with implement high-performance warehouse interaction between hardware, databases the latest releases – a key element in systems. The Scandinavian Harlem Group, and operating systems on account of a smart warehousing solution and the for example, relies on the warehouse upgrades not being promptly implemen- basis for further future Industrie 4.0 management and business intelligence ted, the Harlem Group opted to make applications. platform SynQ from Swisslog, which use of a Swisslog service that is becoming makes warehouse management ready ever more important for Industrie 4.0 for Industrie 4.0. environments: the ForeverYoung migration service. This is an optional feature of The Harlem Group is a fully integrated Swisslog support and automates admin- Swisslog’s upgrades allow access to new trading company specialized in buying istration of the SynQ environment. features such as 3D visualizations. and selling consumer goods on an international scale. The company offers The ForeverYoung process begins by com- products and services for the retail paring the productive version of SynQ market and food industry with a port- deployed by the Harlem Group with the folio including commodities, consumer youngest platform version available at goods and private label products. It the time. An upgrade version of the markets an assortment of more than Harlem Group solution, adapted to any 800 products and makes annual trades new features introduced in the mean- of over 300,000 tonnes of commodities. time, is then automatically tested and As a user of SynQ software, the Harlem validated before being migrated to the Group has the option to migrate the active work environment. 76�77