After decades of steady progress, the industry prepares for a flood of technology to capture and act upon real-time location of assets, people and goods.BY JOSH BOND, SeNIOR eDITORPrecise location dat a for assets, products, equipment and mobile devices has the potential to transform operations. Despite being an industry focused on the movement of goods, until very recently, the materials handling industry had flourished using a fairly basic assortment of checkpoints and transactions. Aside from time elapsed, so much of what happened in the movement of goods went unmeasured....