Wincanton Special profile
<< own legacy estate that we continue to manage, one of our biggest technology successes over the past couple of years has been the establishment of our own group wide area network, improving our communication infrastructure.”
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we now use at all of our UK sites. For financial reporting we use Oracle Hyperion, and our group standard warehousing solution of choice is Manhattan Associates. We have one transportation management system per region; all of which have been developed
We must always take clear ownership of the IT project because it is we who are ultimately accountable to the end customer.”
Wincanton also uses a range of specific solutions to serve each of its market sectors as well as help manage its own internal operations. For the management of these solutions, the company calls on a mixture of tier 1/tier 2 outsource partners who provide all the application support required. Whelan outlined a number of Wincanton’s current core IT solutions used throughout the group: “We chose Coda software for financial management, CIP for HR and have standard - ised our Time & Attendance on Kronos; which
in-house. Our contract food service distribution system has been supplied by Minster Logistics, for our Home Delivery operations we use an Axida order management system, and a Carfax system manages our fleet services operations. So, across the board, we have a best-of-breed solution set for each of our core disciplines and markets.” Additionally, Horizon is Wincanton’s internet solutions provider across the group while, on the hardware side, the company has standardised on IBM.
System consolidation
Whelan pointed out that before Wincanton began to standardise on its current solutions, it had relied on a number of disparate systems of various strengths and levels of resilience. “Up until two years ago we operated a total of 27 different warehouse management systems,” he said. “So we began to look at the top 25 WMS vendors globally and finally decided to pilot Manhattan Associates’ Warehouse Management for Open Systems solution – and we haven’t looked back. So far, we have 10 warehouses running the WMS successfully across Europe.”
Another technology area where Wincanton is increasingly seeing benefits in a growing number of its warehouses is Voice-directed picking. “We’ve standardised on Vocollect as our provider and have integrated Voice into our WMS,” said Whelan. Additionally, he explained that the company is gaining major benefits through using vehicle >>
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