Reduce operational costs with an environmentally friendly warehouse

by Steve | Dec 3, 2019 | Technological Change, Warehouse Management

Businesses across the globe are looking at more than just their transportation carbon footprint They are also looking to their warehouses to go green, help the environment and in turn save operational costs. A McKinsey report stated that more than 90% of companies’...

There’s strong demand for Christmas Day deliveries but, who would want to work on Christmas Day?

by Steve | Dec 3, 2019 | Technological Change, Warehouse Management

The first stores to deliver on Christmas Day will have themselves a very merry £1bn Christmas, says ParcelHero The likes of Amazon and ASOS all delivered right up to Christmas Eve last year; but new research by the home delivery expert ParcelHero has revealed there is...

Gourmet Classic cook up 98% reduction in down time and 40% lead time reduction, a case history

by Steve | Dec 3, 2019 | Accounting, CRM, Document Management, ERP, Warehouse Management

Sarah Timmins, General Manager Gourmet Classic Ltd, said of the company’s previous software: “It just didn’t work… …Nobody could use it or really understood the functionality of it, and we couldn’t get the right information in or out of it.”...

Blacker Friday – Black Friday has had its day

by Steve | Dec 3, 2019 | Technological Change, Warehouse Management

The home delivery expert ParcelHero says this Black Friday is likely to see overall UK online and High Street spending growth stall Low consumer confidence and stretched-out, lacklustre online deals have blackened Friday’s prospects. Since hitting the UK with a bang...

Machine learning, powering ‘smarter’ warehouses

by Steve | Nov 4, 2019 | Accounting, Cloud, ERP, Technological Change, Warehouse Management

David Greenlees, Managing Director, Priority Software UK presents five key warehouse functions that can benefit from machine learning As part of its warehouse management functionality, ERP systems typically track information about products as they’re picked, packed,...

Brexit, staff costs and inaccurate data impacting profitability in wholesale businesses

by Steve | Nov 4, 2019 | Accounting, Technological Change, Warehouse Management

Multiple software systems leading to inaccurate data and threaten profitability A new survey commissioned by OGL Computer, among 255 managers of wholesalers and distributors in the UK, reveals that 88% are using multiple software systems, and seem unable to break away...