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Automation in the supply chain is readily accessible, and huge business forces are pushing towards automated solutions. But the wrong choice at best doesn’t deliver benefits, and at worst can be disastrous, incurring risks and costs that can quickly snowball. Internal resources can benefit from collaborating with specialist automation experience. Beyond the challenges, beyond the uncharted territory can lie efficiency and flexibility.
With expert help you’ve adopted the mix of mechanised, automated and manual processes and equipment you know is right. You’ve improved customer service speed and accuracy. Your productivity is up, your costs are down and you have prolonged the lifespan of your distribution centre. Assets are better used, accuracy and data visibility is up, and your workforce is resilient.
We’re hugely experienced in automation across systems and sectors, with credibility born from proven experience and knowledge born from a fanatical attention to detail. We’re agnostic and independent, and we’re able to constructively challenge providers across e very stage of the project.
Automation in the supply chain is readily accessible, and huge business forces are pushing towards automated solutions. But the wrong choice at best doesn’t deliver benefits, and at worst can be disastrous, incurring risks and costs that can quickly snowball. Internal resources can benefit from collaborating with specialist automation experience. Beyond the challenges, beyond the uncharted territory can lie efficiency and flexibility.
With expert help you’ve adopted the mix of mechanised, automated and manual processes and equipment you know is right. You’ve improved customer service speed and accuracy. Your productivity is up, your costs are down and you have prolonged the lifespan of your distribution centre. Assets are better used, accuracy and data visibility is up, and your workforce is resilient.
We’re hugely experienced in automation across systems and sectors, with credibility born from proven experience and knowledge born from a fanatical attention to detail. We’re agnostic and independent, and we’re able to constructively challenge providers across e very stage of the project.
The prospect of automation is outside of comfort zone for many, with horror stories and preconceptions all too common. But your supply chain is under pressure to deliver scale, speed, and accuracy—for diverse products and complex customer needs. You face labour scarcity, cost pressures, warehouse shortages and demand volatility. Automation simply can’t be ignored.
We support you on the whole journey—from strategic choice and business case to design, implementation and testing. We’re independent of suppliers and solutions, so we bring challenge to assure the right solution, commercials and change plan. We translate your operations into automated ones, whether they be physical solutions, processes or systems. We match your needs to automation choice. Our recommendations are pragmatic and cover fast-to-deploy, hybrid manual/automation, and ‘islands of automation’.
In your future you make confident automation decisions, and implement plans with minimal risk. Your automation is robust, scalable, affordable, flexible and generates lasting returns. It increases productivity, reduces costs, improves stock and pick accuracy, better space and asset utilisation, enhances labour resilience, makes data more visible and improves customer service.
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You’d expect the thrill of the project to come from creating shiny new toys! But an automation project is rarely just about automation – it’s often a mix of mechanisation, manual and automation, linked to systems and operational process redesign and improvement, and usually includes property specifications and people change. The breadth and variety makes it doubly interesting. And the engagement journey for automation can be more challenging than other change projects (people think it’s scary, complex and expensive) so it feels extra satisfying when you get everyone on board.
The correctly chosen automation, specified to deliver a seamless solution, not only supports the business today, but can also support future change. Logistics performance is increasingly becoming a key competitive differentiator—so robust, scalable, flexible solutions will help transform a business and generate lasting returns.
Nowadays you’re not necessarily looking at complete, large-scale automation solutions within a facility—rather the deployment of ‘islands of automation’. This can be done much easier with less capital and risk, but still provide cost or service benefits. It helps smooth cash outlay, aligns more closely with business volume growth, and can be added to with testing and learning.
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