THIRD PARTY LOGISTICS
Amco are a provider of a wide range of
logistics services to a number of different
industry sectors including; automotive supply
(OEM and aftermarket), aerospace, FMCG
and defence, this diversification brings many
challenges, not least of which is finding a
WMS that is powerful and flexible enough
to provide the different solutions required to
the challenges of each industry, but at the
same time remaining affordable to Amco in
the very competitive environment that they
operate in.
Following extensive research and having
considered solutions offered by a number
of our competitors Amco chose Think.
AUTOMOTIVE &MANUFACTURING
Magna are a largemulti-national supplier
to all the world’s major automotive
manufacture’s, their largest UK division
contacted Think for support when they were
awarded amassive new contract with BMW.
The challenge that Magna set for Think was
to provide themwith a flexible inventory
management system that met all the
required automotive standards of QS9000
and VDA 6.1 whilst also providing some
additional functionality specific to the
automotive industry, such as sequencing to
customers, internal line side sequencing and
kitting, amongst others.
FOOD
Our client, who operate one of the largest
chilled and frozen food storage centres in the
UK, was undertaking amulti-million pound
investment programwhichwould result in a
doubling in size of what was already a large
scale facility.
As part of this process they were also
reviewing their current warehouse software
and processes for scalability and looking for
an organisation to partner them in
achieving this goal.
THINKwere contacted directly by the
organisation after they read an independent
report from a satisfied customer in a trade
magazine inwhich they had focussed strongly
on our approach to developing a solution not
just supplying software.
WAREHOUSE &DISTRIBUTION
XPO Logistics is one of the top ten logistics
providers in the world and it’s focus on
technology and investing in innovative
technologies has helped establish XPO as
amarket leader inmany areas.
Following a review of the existingWMS
at one of their facilities in the NorthWest
of England, XPO identified a number of
shortcomings with their existing system
including insufficient record retention,
insufficient reporting and functionality
around perpetual inventory. XPO undertook
an in depth evaluation of the availableWMS
on offer that met the requirements of this
busy facility and after an extensive and
rigorous procurement process ThinkWMS was
the chosen solution.
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