WMS from the floor up
Formica Group has chosen the AIDC-WHM warehouse management system to run its new, 50,000ft UK storage and distribution operation in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham.
Formica Group has chosen the AIDC-WHM warehouse management system to run its new, 50,000ft UK storage and distribution operation in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham.
Nearly half of UK businesses regard reducing the cost of running warehouse operations as their most critical challenge for business improvement – even more critical than speed of fulfilment.
The latest DVD video release from Paragon Training covers the essential aspects of working safely with telehandlers.
Importer of South East Asian food brands, Manning Impex, has implemented the Access Delta warehouse management system from Access Group.
There’s much more to the world of retail home deliveries than a man in a van. In fact, successful fulfilment stems from strong stock visibility and the retailer’s ability to make quick and intelligent decisions about deliveries when orders are being placed. Simon Duddy reports on recent IT developments.
Proteus Software and TouchStar Technologies – respectively suppliers of warehouse management systems and mobile computing solutions to the supply chain sector – have joined forces to offer warehouse and distribution centre operators a new reporting service that, it is claimed, will allow energy efficiency savings of between and 15 and 25 per cent to be made.
Williams Your Foodservice has invested in a 12-user Accord solution from supply chain software specialist, BCP (Business Computer Projects), for its expanding distribution business.
According to a survey of warehouse operators carried out for WMS provider Access Group by Redshift Research, almost 40% of UK companies with stockholding operations rank stock level optimisation high on their priorities, being keenly felt mostly by larger companies and, surprisingly, by those firms not running a dedicated Warehouse Management System (WMS).
Pest control and hygiene products specialist P+L Systems has upgraded its UK and European DCs by implementing the Accellos warehouse management system from Balloon One.
Provider of delivery management solutions for retailers MetaPack has received a £20m investment from Index Ventures to fund international growth.
Within eight weeks of the initial enquiry, Optima has implemented Optimiser – a new, cutting edge cloud-based warehouse management system – for the Border Group, which operates modern warehouses with a 15,000 pallet capacity near Newport, Gwent.
Leading WMS software supplier, MACS Software, has recently received an order from Midlands-based ICS Distribution for MACSwms to enhance its existing warehouse management operations.
Warehouse management systems supplier, MACS Software, is using Orbis Task Centre to link its MACSwms with SAP Business One. The result is an integrated system said to provide a best of breed approach to business and warehouse management.
WMS specialist MACS Software has announced a partnership agreement with multichannel eCommerce software developer Linn Systems, the company behind the Linnworks business automation solution.
AIDC Solutions’ custom-off-the-shelf (COTS) warehouse management system is now fully RFID-enabled and uses ‘fast, flexible, smart’ AIDC system building blocks that allow a WMS to be fully tailored for the user but at a lower, packaged software price, according to the company.
Negotiating information flows within logistics can feel like skiing downhill at speed. Refusing to swerve the big issues, HSS editor Simon Duddy asks how obstacles to implementation can be overcome.
Knauf has become the latest company to buy Harland Simon’s Warehouse Insight system for its manufacturing site at Sittingbourne, Kent.
It is now many years since the warehouse management system (WMS) first appeared, marking a departure from the basic control by total quantity and valuation offered by stock control packages towards the more advanced concepts of managing space utilisation and control of warehouse movements.
Warrens Warehousing & Distribution has seen massive growth following its investment in warehouse management software Access Delta from the Access Group.
Proteus Software and TouchStar Technologies are hosting a free seminar that aims to guide warehouse operators through the key criteria to consider when selecting a WMS and demonstrate how a system’s return on investment time can be accurately calculated.