www.logisticsit.comFor the latest news and to subscribe to theManufacturing and Logistics IT weekly newsletter visitMANUFACTURING&LOGISTICSITOCTOBER2007The European magazine promoting the effective us...the integrated business solutionTel: 0115 946 0101Fax: 0115 946 0606www.exel.co.uksales@exel.co.ukI ERP I CRM I Document Management I APS I Field Service I MPS I Capacity Planning I EbusinessAnotheOctober 2007 3ITMANUFACTURING&LOGISTICSRegular readers of this journal will be aware that we like toconcentrate on a wide variety of hardware and software solutionsfor manufacturing and logistics profOctober 20074 ITMANUFACTURING&LOGISTICSManufacturing and Logistics ITOctober 2007The European magazine promoting the effectiveuse of IT in supply chain applicationsEditor: Ed HoldenContributors:RicharOnline Digital EditionAUTOMATIC DATA CAPTURE &Voice TECHNOLOGYOctober 2007The past decade has certainlyseen a number of majoradvances in the technologicaldevelopment of automatic datacapture (ADC) solutions andvoice techno
www.logisticsit.comFor the latest news and to subscribe to theManufacturing and Logistics IT weekly newsletter visitMANUFACTURING&LOGISTICSITOCTOBER2007The European magazine promoting the effective us
...the integrated business solutionTel: 0115 946 0101Fax: 0115 946 0606www.exel.co.uksales@exel.co.ukI ERP I CRM I Document Management I APS I Field Service I MPS I Capacity Planning I EbusinessAnothe
October 2007 3ITMANUFACTURING&LOGISTICSRegular readers of this journal will be aware that we like toconcentrate on a wide variety of hardware and software solutionsfor manufacturing and logistics prof
October 20074 ITMANUFACTURING&LOGISTICSManufacturing and Logistics ITOctober 2007The European magazine promoting the effectiveuse of IT in supply chain applicationsEditor: Ed HoldenContributors:Richar
Online Digital EditionAUTOMATIC DATA CAPTURE &Voice TECHNOLOGYOctober 2007The past decade has certainlyseen a number of majoradvances in the technologicaldevelopment of automatic datacapture (ADC) solutions andvoice techno
technologies have brought productivityand mobility, as well as freedom fromthe inconvenience of downloading everypiece of captured data via a cradle.Raymond Wolfert, sales & marketingmanager at Unitec
AUTOMATIC DATA CAPTURE &Voice TECHNOLOGYOctober 2007<<has enabled smaller, more lightweight,dedicated voice terminals as well asallowing voice applications to be deployedon multifunctional data collec
supply chain solution providers did nothave direct interface options. “Now, all themain tier1 WMSs have direct interfaces,almost entirely using Vocollectbasedvoice tasks,” he said, adding: “Middleware
AUTOMATIC DATA CAPTURE &Voice TECHNOLOGYOctober 2007<< that is, if the software supports multipleplatforms. This gives customers flexibility,freedom of choice and eventually helpsthem to be able to dr
“We believe these mergers will continuein the future on a larger scale betweentraditional auto ID and the mainstreamIT industry,” he said.GlobalisationGlobalisation has certainly come on leapsand boun
AUTOMATIC DATA CAPTURE &Voice TECHNOLOGYOctober 2007<< because this drives higher qualitywithin their operation as a whole. So we’restarting to see interest in putting voicetechnology into warehouses
(RTLS). Another future trend, according toVermeesch and Kars, will be an increasedprevalence in the use of biometrics toauthenticate users of systems; forinstance, when seeking to gain accessto AutoID
October 2007Growing regulatory pressure andcompetition will drive adoptionof product lifecycle management (PLM) software andservices in the pharmaceuticalindustry, according to a new report byDatamoni
Nascent market“Product lifecycle management (PLM)software and services solutions are still anascent market for the pharmaceuticalindustry,” said Markella Kordoyanni,pharmaceutical technology analyst a
October 2007Formed in 1978 as a spinoffcompany from Imperial CollegeLondon’s Biomechanics Unit,Finsbury Orthopaedics specialisesin the design, development,manufacture and supply of advancedjoint repla
October 2007 17ITMANUFACTURING&LOGISTICSSuccess story \\\ Manufacturing \\\www.logisticsit.comdatabase format and which used the latestinternet interconnectivity technologies,”Gyngell recalled. “We li
October 2007Crown Computing has beenselected by the Carillion Groupto provide and implement itsOpen Options Time &Attendance and WorkforceScheduling solution throughout the company,starting within the
Advanced Employee Management Software• Time & Attendance• Workforce Scheduling• Time Accounting• Activity Management• Access Control• HR & Payroll Interfaces• SAP Integration• Employee Data WarehouseC
October 2007Business management softwarecompany, Sage (UK), haslaunched Sage 50 Forecasting2007. This powerful financialforecasting software helpsbusinesses accurately plan their financialfuture by pr
Ask an organisation what itsforecast accuracy is and it willmost likely reply ‘around 50 percent’. Solid forecasts are a logicaland essential part of frontendsupply chain planning, but the inaccuracy
October 2007Founded in 1987, InvitrogenCorporation is a global companywhose revenues of $1.2 billioncome from providing products andservices to pharmaceutical andbiotechnology companies and to academi
Demand Solutions software is practical and easyto use with outstanding levels of functionality. Implementation within 90 days Fast ROIIf this problem is all too familiar, call us today:+44 (0) 20 8770
<< forecast accuracy because past salesdata didn’t uncover cases where more of anitem had been requested but the order wentunfilled for lack of inventory. Because demandcan be sporadic, the planners a
Gaining better control ofinventory management hasbecome a keen focus forcompanies in the fiercelycompetitive life sciencesindustry. These companies in particular findthemselves challenged with reducin
October 2007Leveraging a multiechelon supply chainHow do you leverage inventory managementtechnology as a tool to increase customerservice levels, optimise your investment andgrow profits? The answer:
The piece that makessynchronisation easy.Logility Voyager Solutions helpmanufacturers formalise theSales & Operations Planningprocess by bringing marketintelligence into the demandplan, allowing colla
Warehouse Management I Success storyCONTENTSpage 3031Buildingmomentumin Russiapage 3235Getting youryard in orderpage 3637Aim foroptimumwarehouseperformancepage 3839Higherproductivityby dynamicpickingO
In logistics operations, the questions you face get tougher allthe time. If you’re not sure you’ve got the right answers, couldit be your WMS solution that doesn’t stand up to scrutiny?Empirica WMS sy
<< integrated with Vygon’sexisting business applicationsto deliver improved businessperformance. “Chess has a verygood system with Empirica,which fulfils all our existingrequirements but which can bem
Warehouse Management I Success storyEnhanced service levels“A combination of KorusConsulting’s experience in improvingand automating businessprocesses at other leadingcompanies in Russia, and theflexi
October 2007The first and last placea distribution centresees product is in theyard. However, theyard can be a blindspot where time is wastedsearching for the right trailer andmatching its requirement
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October 2007<< areas. With the use of SAPdelivered business addins (BADIs),this process can be furthersimplified by connecting pickingand post goods receipt and issueactions with YMS statuses. Forexam
Systemguided yardmovementsAdvanced movements can beplanned or manually triggeredand completed via RF devicesin the yard with or withoutconfirmation. Multilevel management is available to help movethro
October 2007We can all picturean image of asmall childposting variousshapes throughthe correct shaped hole into abucket. This is a learning toygiven to our children to improverecognition, logic and de
ordered, a stacking coefficient isused so that two items do notresult in double the spacerequirement of a single item aswe would put one inside the other.If we consider the same item, itmay also be po
October 2007With the DPS(DynamicPicking System),an IT controlledand automatedwarehouse and picking systemfor toteable articles, Witron offersa tailormade system solutionthat corresponds perfectlyto Pe
channels, replacing the dynamicones with alternate items uponsystem instruction, and restoringthem to the racking when nolonger needed. “Thus, theallocation of the flow channels issubject to permanent
October 2007Albert Heijn hasconfirmed itscommitment todeploy voicepicking across itsfour regional distribution centres.Albert Heijn, the leading foodretailer in the Netherlands,successfully deployed v
Voice in the warehouse doesn’t have to be complex and expensive. Or constricting.With Voxware 3.0, you getthe traditional bene?ts of voice – and more. Our open, 100% SOAbased software gives you unprec
October 2007Whenorganisationsimplement realtime informationsystems toimprove supply chain efficiencies,they may inadvertently causesituations where processesbecome less effective becauseusers can no l
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October 2007<< and accuracy. These includerealtime communications withthe host WMS or ERP systemand full user interaction withinformation confirmation,exception reporting, situationalinterpretation an
Founded on July 27,1987 in PittsburghPennsylvania as a‘good idea’ by threeentrepreneurs,Vocollect has grown to become arespected global company. Eachday, hundreds of thousands ofworkers across six con
October 2007<< Household namesToday Vocollect operates inlocations throughout Europe, theAmericas and Asia, collaboratingwith a premier global network ofcertified resellers and supplychain performance
performance. With VoiceDirectionWork, it is claimed that organisationscan expect increased accuracyof up to 99.99 per cent; improvedproductivity by up to 25 per cent;a 50 per cent reduction in trainin
October 2007Voicedirected pickingfirst achievedsuccess in thestraightforward casepicking environment,using the middleware approach,essentially as a quick fix to getthe process up and running.However t
come in from each supplier itcan repick the items that needto be added to the orders thathave been assembled.System differentiatorsFlexible picking options are theother big differentiators betweensyst
AUTOMATIC DATACAPTUREOctober 200750 ITMANUFACTURING&LOGISTICSOpinionFighting backagainstcounterfeitersCONTENTSpage 5253Synergies at workpage 54Question timepage 55Tasty mobilesolutionpage 5658Striking
To find out what we can do for your business, book a FREE product demonstration today!Call us on +44 1628 648800 or visit www.psionteklogix.co.ukWe’re not going to tell you our innovationscould save y
AUTOMATIC DATACAPTUREOctober 2007Anew handheld terminal, theDenso BHT700, has beenlaunched by Toyota Tsusho IDSystems (TTID). In additionto being available direct fromTTID, the official trading house
including the new DensoBHT700 – can now besold into a widerportfolio of enduserverticals, as RoseanneWoo, Avery DennisonPrinter SystemsDivision’s Global directorbusiness development,explained: “Thedur
AUTOMATIC DATACAPTUREOctober 2007With many organisations inthe manufacturing,warehousing, transportand logistics sectorshaving already investedheavily in IT infrastructure, most will seethe mainstream
John Dewar and Sons, part of theBacardi Group, is a leadingwhisky producer based inGlasgow, Scotland. In 2006,Dewar’s started to replace someof its warehouses in order to comply withguidelines stating
AUTOMATIC DATACAPTUREOctober 2007NGF Europe of St Helens,Merseyside operates at theforefront of the manufactureand marketing of specialisedglass products. Formerlyowned by Pilkington Glass, the compan
honed for use in its factory in St Helens. Inorder to support the new system, NGFEhad to source new labels, printers andscanning systems. The requirement for alabel that was highly customised, and sma
AUTOMATIC DATACAPTUREOctober 2007<< the correct labelling. Previously, if anoperator was to intervene and remove aspool then the process could go out ofsynchronisation and spools could beincorrectly l
Nordic ID has expanded its PL3000 product platform withHF RFID, suitable for itemlevel tracking in a variety of industriesincluding pharmaceutical, healthcare or food processing.According to Nordic ID
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Only RedPrairie can synchronisepeople and products across retail andsupply chain operations in line withactual consumer demand.What would that mean to you?Retail shelves would be correctlystocked. The
October 2007<< costing functionality ensures that labourcosts are allocated correctly while its webbased reporting tools provide timely insightinto irregularities. “Implementing RedPrairie’sWorkforce
Around the world, then,enterprises of all types needinnovative supply chainmanagement tools that allowthem to adapt quickly topowerful and abrupt changes. Vendors oftools are aware of these trends and
October 2007<< expensive support agreements andtimeconsuming software developmentpartnerships with vendors. In this situation,customers are effectively paying for softwarecompanies’ inability to deliv
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First Milk has selected IFSApplications to provide fullintegration of all criticalbusiness processes andoptimise production across itscheese division sites nationwide. IFSApplications will be deployed
locations in the storing warehouse andtranslate into an improvement in pickingperformance by about 40 per cent. Theorder also includes the extension of theconveyor system in the goodsin area andthe im
October 2007RTwinings & Company has pickedSeeburger UK’s BusinessIntegration Server (BIS) to delivera complete BusinesstoBusiness(B2B) integration solution. BIS isnow delivering a reliable and flexibl
October 2007Galexis AG has gainedsignificant improvements instock management andreplenishment with an inventoryoptimisation solution from IBS.The Swiss Pharma wholesaler has achievedtangible cost savi
A large potential in automationA systemgenerated purchase suggestion based on past orders, aswell as current and future stock data, is much more efficient, accurateand costeffective than a manual sugg
October 2007It is Michael Hilbrich’s view that the steelindustry presents one of the mostdifficult planning problems in terms ofmanufacture and supply. “Steel is on thevery end of the supply chain bec
SW Group Logistics is a warehousing and distributioncompany operating from three locations out of Swindonand Telford. It has made the transition from a transportcompany into a highly successful thirdp
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