SAN JOSE, Calif., May 21, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Sanmina
Corporation (Nasdaq: SANM), a leading integrated
manufacturing solutions company and Smiota, a leading provider
of state-of-the-art, open software for smart locker hardware and a
cloud-based agnostic delivery platform, today announced a
partnership to offer smart locker solutions for the secure exchange
of physical goods across a wide range of industry verticals such as
Retail, Enterprise, Multi-family, and Universities.
Sanmina's Mechanical Systems Division (MSD) will support the
hardware development and manufacturing of smart locker solutions,
and Sanmina's Global Services Division (SGS) will provide
installation services and field support. Smiota will provide its
Locker Delivery Operating Systems (L-DOS) and leading Smiota cloud
platform to enable secure last-yard delivery of goods to smart
lockers.
The partnership enables Sanmina and Smiota to jointly deliver
comprehensive smart locker solutions globally for secure,
streamlined delivery of packages and groceries. More
importantly, this collaboration enables Smiota to scale
operations and capitalize on the rapidly growing smart locker
market, leveraging Sanmina's breadth of offerings, global reach and
ability to scale quickly as a top tier integrated systems
manufacturer.
"We are very excited to partner with Smiota to expand use of
smart locker solutions globally," said Hossein Saadat, president of MSD at Sanmina.
"Sanmina's ability to deliver high quality products, combined with
Smiota's world-class cloud based platform, will provide customers
with a competitive advantage in this fast growing market."
"At Smiota, our mission is to facilitate the secure exchange of
physical goods across various industries, emerging verticals, and
all walks of life," said Manju
Kashi, Founder and CEO at Smiota. "By partnering with
Sanmina, we expand our global footprint and bring state-of-the-art
solutions powered by Smiota software and Apps to enable various
industry-verticals deploy LaaS (Locker-as-a-Service) ecosystem that
simplifies the delivery experience."
Smart locker are increasingly being deployed to streamline the
delivery, pick-up and return of physical goods, driven by worldwide
growth in e-commerce, Click-and-collect, BOPIS/BOPUS, and, BOSS
retail, cloud-based platforms and the adoption of Internet of
Things (IOT) technologies among businesses and consumers. Deploying
smart lockers in easily accessible locations such as building
lobbies, retail stores, residential complexes, college campuses and
mailrooms reduces cost and simplifies delivery logistics for
couriers in the LAST-YARD. The full chain of custody that
lockers enable gives recipients security, trust and peace-of-mind
to receive, return and exchange packages /groceries.
About Sanmina MSD
Sanmina's Mechanical Systems
Division (MSD) is a leading global provider of complex mechanical,
electro-mechanical and precision machining solutions to industry
leading OEMs in a variety of markets including medical, industrial,
semiconductor capital equipment, datacenter, and self-service (e.g.
vending, kiosks, gaming, etc). MSD is a division of Sanmina,
a $7B global leader in providing
integrated manufacturing solutions. In addition to
manufacturing services, MSD also supports customers' engineering
needs in mechanical design, design for manufacturability (DFM),
value engineering (VAVE), prototyping and new product introduction
(NPI).
About Smiota
Located in Pleasanton, California, Smiota
Inc. provides a cloud-based platform, locker operating
system, applications and services that facilitate secure
exchange of physical goods across all industries and walks of
life. Smiota platform provides complete chain of custody,
security, convenience and real-time analytics and reporting.
These features and more are available as secure Application
Programmers Interface (APIs) for partners (Yardi, Realpage and
others) and third party software developers to use with their own
custom solutions.
About Sanmina Corporation
Sanmina Corporation is a
leading integrated manufacturing solutions provider serving the
fastest-growing segments of the global Electronics Manufacturing
Services (EMS) market. Recognized as a technology leader, Sanmina
provides end-to-end manufacturing solutions, delivering superior
quality and support to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs)
primarily in the communications networks, storage, industrial,
defense, medical, energy and industries that include embedded
computing technologies such as, point of sale devices, casino
gaming and automotive. Sanmina has facilities strategically located
in key regions throughout the world. More information regarding the
company is available at http://www.sanmina.com.
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