Over the past 10 years I have worked in Warehouse Management / Supply Chain industry with products from RedPrairie, direct with end customers and as a consultant through the RedPrairie organisation. My experience is with a diverse set of customers and ranges from pre-sales consultancy through to systems go-live and support.

Buyit Direct, Mansfield

Currently I am finishing an implementation with Buyit Direct.

Buyit Direct are an online retailer that deal in a variety of products such as household appliances, air conditioning units, laptop and accessories. Due to pressures to get stock into the new warehouse I have been working with them to implement RedPrairie in compressed timescales, kick off to go-live in less than 3 months.

NFT, Daventry

Hired by NFT to help them move forward with the implementation of RedPraire WMS. Working with the existing project team to:

• Configure the WMS to work with warehouse processes.
• Test the configuration within the scope of the first phase of the project.
• Liase with RedPrairie to ensure that issues are resolved.
• Develop reports / documentation as required on a client by client basis.
• Develop KPI reports.
• Assist with set up of the WMS for new clients.
• Assist with moving existing clients from the legacy WMS.

Acted as IT Project Manager implementing RedPrairie WMS to take on a major client in the chilled food market.

RedPrairie / TEVA Pharmaceuticals, Leeds

Working with RedPraire to map TEVA the warehouse processes, where possible, to existing functionality in the WMS and designing software modifications as appropriate.

Design of a set of interfaces between the WMS and Oracle to manage Orders, Purchase Orders and Inventory Control.

Design, development & onsite integration and testing of a set of interfaces to enable the WMS to communicate with the Warehouse Control System, (provided by SSI Schafer Peem GmbH). These interfaces included pallet storage and retrieval, picking from pallets, pick by light, shipping lanes and inventory management.

RedPrairie / Constellation , Bristol

Working with Constellation & Electric80 to design a set of interfaces between the WMS, Inbound Shuttle Storage, Laser Guided Vehicles & End Of Line Scanning.

Ocado, Hatfield, Herts

Initially hired to help Ocado resolve some issues they were having with the performance of their Warehouse Management System, (Dispatcher-WMS from RedPrairie).

• Went on to support the migration of Dispatcher-WMS from Solaris to HP-UX, this involved detailed testing and performance measuring on the new hardware before going live.
• Liaising with Ocado Business Consultants to configure the WMS to fit business processes as the operation grew and processes changed to meet the growth.
• Creating algorithms to optimise tote flow around the warehouse.
• Supporting and helping Ocado to build a team to develop and manage the WMS.

RedPrairie / The Malcolm Group

Initially challenged with providing a solution to deploying RedPrairie into the business alongside a legacy WMS. The key to a successful implementation was to ensure that exisitng TMG business systems and customers business systems were unaffected by this implementation.

The solution was to enhance RedPrairie systems to manage all of the connections between the business systems.

The next challenge was to help The Malcolm Group secure new business by developing RedPrairie systems further to manage the supply chain for empty bottles into a bottling plant and delivery / storage of bottled beverages. Using the enhanced functionality the system could provide TMG with all of the necessary information:

• Emply glass production forecasts.
• Bottling production forecasts.
• Transport movements.
• Current empty glass in the supply chain.

With this data TMG could ensure the correct supply of glass to the production line and movements of filled bottles to storage / customers.

RedPrairie / Birds Eye Walls

Working alongside the project manager I was responsible for the integration of RedPrairie WMS with SAP.

The key goal was to ensure that the interfaces enabled the WMS to integrate seemlessly with the business systems of Birds Eye Walls parent company Unilever.

These interfaces included, Orders, Purchase Orders, Goods Movements, Stock Control, Goods Receipt From Production and Raw Material Consumption.

RedPrairie / Computer 2000

Responsilble for the design, development and testing of a set of interfaces between the WMS and the Warehouse Control System provided by VanDerLande.

• The interfaces included launching of totes as required for picking.
• Providing details of pick destinations.
• Capturing tote weights.
• Providing carrier details to ensure totes delivered to correct shipping lanes.
  

Other Customers

Other customers I have worked with in the past include:

• TNT - Integrating business systems.
• Taylor Barnard / Princes Soft Drinks - Integrating WMS with SAP.
• Norbert Dentressangle / Threshers - Integration.
• Hayes / T-Mobile - Integrating WMS with SAP.
• Unipart - Integration.
• Railpart - Integrating WMS with SAP.
• Sharp Electronics - Application Study / Integration WMS with SAP.