End-to-end Omnichannel Planning & Fulfilment

Deposco, the omnichannel fulfilment supply chain solutions platform for brand owners, retailers, e-commerce, and 3PL companies, has launched the industry’s first true omnichannel supply chain solution to orchestrate the end-to-end processes – Plan, Source, Order, Fulfil, and Return – across B2B and DTC channels from a single package to full pallets.

In one cohesive Supply Chain Planning (SCP) and Fulfllment solution, businesses can replace inefficient manual processes with instant recommendations and automated workflows that remove the blinders between supply chain operations. The solution is designed to help customers lower their carrying costs, mitigate labour challenges, increase sales, and become more proactive and profitable in approaching inventory as one entity across all touchpoints.

“Creating value to fund growth in the volatile B2B and DTC markets has become a costly game that requires businesses to stock up, staff up, and delay growth initiatives due to processes and systems that can’t keep up,” said Bill Gibson, CEO of Deposco. “We are delighted to deliver a unified platform that feeds our customers with the information they need to put the right products at the right places at the right time and cost, rather than increasing inventory as a defensive response to ongoing changes and disruptions.”

Deposco’s Bright Suite omnichannel platform is the first of its kind to unite demand planning, supply planning, and order fulfilment through a single view of demand against real-time physical inventory execution everywhere. The platform is designed for B2B and DTC brands that need to scale growth and improve their omnichannel experiences but have not had the right tools to make timely, optimal decisions within the full context of their financial, operational, and service impacts.

Deposco’s singular omnichannel planning and fulfilment solution combines up-to-the-minute inventory data, automated demand planning insights, efficient operational workflows, and robust reporting across channels – with the flexibility to adapt and scale the technology going forward. Key benefits include:

• Coordinated decisions: Orchestrate the demand and supply end-to-end across planning and operations to respond to rapidly evolving changes, while improving cash-to-cash cycles and inventory acquisition/carrying costs.
• Improved Forecast Accuracy: Better product availability; efficient processes; and measurable forecast performance and improvements.
• Dynamically Optimised Inventory: Right inventory at the right locations, time-phased inventory investments, and automated safety stock policies to improve market agility, inventory turns, and GMROI.
• Automated Supply Planning: Efficient PO generation, real-time tracking of ASNs and receipts makes replenishment, buying, and supplier management fast and easy.

“By implementing Deposco’s supply chain planning solution into our fulfilment operations, we have seen significant improvements across our organisation,” said Bruce Bickford, Sr. Director of Supply Chain Management at RestorixHealth | AMT. “Now an end-to-end platform, the solution has transformed the way we operate. The implementation process was smooth, and Deposco has been a reliable partner for us.”
To learn more about the RestorixHealth | AMT end-to-end Deposco solution, please view the video case study here.

“No other partner offers this level of real-time inventory visibility (or actionable insights), cross-functional collaboration and efficiencies, and agile decision-making,” Gibson said. “The addition of SCP supports our mission of positioning businesses to scale current growth while establishing resiliency, increased profitability, and speed-to-value that can be used to fund future growth.”

Available now to existing Deposco customers as a bundle, SCP rounds out Deposco’s Bright Suite of cloud-based omnichannel fulfilment applications, which include Warehouse Management System (WMS), Order Management and DOM (Distributed Order Management) solutions that can be implemented with the industry’s fastest time-to-value.

End-to-end Omnichannel Planning & Fulfilment

Deposco, the omnichannel fulfilment supply chain solutions platform for brand owners, retailers, e-commerce, and 3PL companies, has launched the industry’s first true omnichannel supply chain solution to orchestrate the end-to-end processes – Plan, Source, Order, Fulfil, and Return – across B2B and DTC channels from a single package to full pallets.

In one cohesive Supply Chain Planning (SCP) and Fulfllment solution, businesses can replace inefficient manual processes with instant recommendations and automated workflows that remove the blinders between supply chain operations. The solution is designed to help customers lower their carrying costs, mitigate labour challenges, increase sales, and become more proactive and profitable in approaching inventory as one entity across all touchpoints.

“Creating value to fund growth in the volatile B2B and DTC markets has become a costly game that requires businesses to stock up, staff up, and delay growth initiatives due to processes and systems that can’t keep up,” said Bill Gibson, CEO of Deposco. “We are delighted to deliver a unified platform that feeds our customers with the information they need to put the right products at the right places at the right time and cost, rather than increasing inventory as a defensive response to ongoing changes and disruptions.”

Deposco’s Bright Suite omnichannel platform is the first of its kind to unite demand planning, supply planning, and order fulfilment through a single view of demand against real-time physical inventory execution everywhere. The platform is designed for B2B and DTC brands that need to scale growth and improve their omnichannel experiences but have not had the right tools to make timely, optimal decisions within the full context of their financial, operational, and service impacts.

Deposco’s singular omnichannel planning and fulfilment solution combines up-to-the-minute inventory data, automated demand planning insights, efficient operational workflows, and robust reporting across channels – with the flexibility to adapt and scale the technology going forward. Key benefits include:

• Coordinated decisions: Orchestrate the demand and supply end-to-end across planning and operations to respond to rapidly evolving changes, while improving cash-to-cash cycles and inventory acquisition/carrying costs.
• Improved Forecast Accuracy: Better product availability; efficient processes; and measurable forecast performance and improvements.
• Dynamically Optimised Inventory: Right inventory at the right locations, time-phased inventory investments, and automated safety stock policies to improve market agility, inventory turns, and GMROI.
• Automated Supply Planning: Efficient PO generation, real-time tracking of ASNs and receipts makes replenishment, buying, and supplier management fast and easy.

“By implementing Deposco’s supply chain planning solution into our fulfilment operations, we have seen significant improvements across our organisation,” said Bruce Bickford, Sr. Director of Supply Chain Management at RestorixHealth | AMT. “Now an end-to-end platform, the solution has transformed the way we operate. The implementation process was smooth, and Deposco has been a reliable partner for us.”
To learn more about the RestorixHealth | AMT end-to-end Deposco solution, please view the video case study here.

“No other partner offers this level of real-time inventory visibility (or actionable insights), cross-functional collaboration and efficiencies, and agile decision-making,” Gibson said. “The addition of SCP supports our mission of positioning businesses to scale current growth while establishing resiliency, increased profitability, and speed-to-value that can be used to fund future growth.”

Available now to existing Deposco customers as a bundle, SCP rounds out Deposco’s Bright Suite of cloud-based omnichannel fulfilment applications, which include Warehouse Management System (WMS), Order Management and DOM (Distributed Order Management) solutions that can be implemented with the industry’s fastest time-to-value.

Pusan Terminal First to Implement BOXBAY

DP World has announced the first commercial use of its revolutionary BOXBAY high-bay storage system at their terminal in Pusan, South Korea.

A contract was signed on 8th March between Pusan Newport Corporation (PNC) and Boxbay FZCO — a joint venture of DP World and German plant technology supplier, SMS group – initiating the design and engineering works for the site. The signing took place in Jebel Ali Free Zone, Dubai, and was signed by Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, Group Chairman and CEO of DP World and Burkhard Dahmen, Chairman and CEO of SMS group, the partners behind BOXBAY.

PNC already operates one of the highest performing container terminals in Asia. The addition of BOXBAY’s technology will allow PNC to boost its efficiency even further.

The BOXBAY high-bay storage technology will be seamlessly integrated along with the existing mode of ARMG/truck operations as a retrofit on an existing empty storage area. The system allows direct access to each container at any time, eliminating 350,000 unproductive moves per year. This will improve the overall truck servicing time by 20 percent, further improving PNC service delivery to its customers.

BOXBAY is fully automated with additional safety features built in. DP World also intend to power it by using solar power, generated by photovoltaic panels on the roof of the storage system, complementing DP World’s drive to decarbonise operations.

Tiemen Meester, COO Ports & Terminals, DP World, said:

“We have long invested in new and innovative technology that will improve and modernise our ports and terminals. It’s a tremendous step forward to announce our first commercial use of BOXBAY. The PNC terminal is an exemplary operation that is already technologically advanced and forward focused. With the introduction of the BOXBAY high-bay storage system, we will be able to better serve our customers while keeping our people safe and cutting carbon emissions from the environment.”

Glen Hilton, CEO & Managing Director, DP World Asia Pacific & Australasia, said:

“We are delighted to see this technology implemented first at one of our terminals. Safety, sustainability and efficiency are huge drivers for our business. We look forward to working with the PNC and BOXBAY teams to implement this system without any interruption to our current services.”

DP World developed BOXBAY in a joint venture with German plant technology supplier SMS group, who originally created the storage system to handle heavy metal coils. Having proven the technology in the metals industry, it was refined for port logistics. DP World and SMS built a pilot facility at Jebel Ali’s Terminal-4 in January 2021. By the end of June 2022, 190,000 container movements had been carried out under realistic operating conditions to verify the market maturity of the system.

DP World has a 66% stake in PNC, which handled 5.3 million TEUs in 2021. PNC operates in Pusan port, which is the tenth largest in the world.

Pusan Terminal First to Implement BOXBAY

DP World has announced the first commercial use of its revolutionary BOXBAY high-bay storage system at their terminal in Pusan, South Korea.

A contract was signed on 8th March between Pusan Newport Corporation (PNC) and Boxbay FZCO — a joint venture of DP World and German plant technology supplier, SMS group – initiating the design and engineering works for the site. The signing took place in Jebel Ali Free Zone, Dubai, and was signed by Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, Group Chairman and CEO of DP World and Burkhard Dahmen, Chairman and CEO of SMS group, the partners behind BOXBAY.

PNC already operates one of the highest performing container terminals in Asia. The addition of BOXBAY’s technology will allow PNC to boost its efficiency even further.

The BOXBAY high-bay storage technology will be seamlessly integrated along with the existing mode of ARMG/truck operations as a retrofit on an existing empty storage area. The system allows direct access to each container at any time, eliminating 350,000 unproductive moves per year. This will improve the overall truck servicing time by 20 percent, further improving PNC service delivery to its customers.

BOXBAY is fully automated with additional safety features built in. DP World also intend to power it by using solar power, generated by photovoltaic panels on the roof of the storage system, complementing DP World’s drive to decarbonise operations.

Tiemen Meester, COO Ports & Terminals, DP World, said:

“We have long invested in new and innovative technology that will improve and modernise our ports and terminals. It’s a tremendous step forward to announce our first commercial use of BOXBAY. The PNC terminal is an exemplary operation that is already technologically advanced and forward focused. With the introduction of the BOXBAY high-bay storage system, we will be able to better serve our customers while keeping our people safe and cutting carbon emissions from the environment.”

Glen Hilton, CEO & Managing Director, DP World Asia Pacific & Australasia, said:

“We are delighted to see this technology implemented first at one of our terminals. Safety, sustainability and efficiency are huge drivers for our business. We look forward to working with the PNC and BOXBAY teams to implement this system without any interruption to our current services.”

DP World developed BOXBAY in a joint venture with German plant technology supplier SMS group, who originally created the storage system to handle heavy metal coils. Having proven the technology in the metals industry, it was refined for port logistics. DP World and SMS built a pilot facility at Jebel Ali’s Terminal-4 in January 2021. By the end of June 2022, 190,000 container movements had been carried out under realistic operating conditions to verify the market maturity of the system.

DP World has a 66% stake in PNC, which handled 5.3 million TEUs in 2021. PNC operates in Pusan port, which is the tenth largest in the world.

UK/Ireland Warehousing Capabilities Enhanced

cargo-partner offers a variety of comprehensive logistics service packages to support customers with warehousing, transport and distribution, and is pleased to have enhanced these capabilities across the UK and Ireland.

With expertise in logistics and worldwide transport, cargo-partner already operates a dense network of warehouses throughout Europe, Southeast Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, Australia and the USA. In addition to this, the company has now enhanced its facilities throughout the UK and Ireland.

Working alongside key logistics partners, cargo-partner can now offer vast warehouse space in Dundalk, Co. Louth and Ashbourne, Co. Meath in Ireland, and further warehousing space in Lichfield and Doncaster in England. These four new warehouse solutions are positioned in and close by to key transport hubs, with strategic connections to airports, ports, rail and road networks.

cargo-partner’s Managing Director for Ireland, Fergal Keenan, said: “We continue to expand cargo-partner’s capabilities, profile and facilities across Western Europe and this includes working with partners and suppliers to invest in more warehousing solutions across the UK and Ireland. Today, the ideal warehouse is more than a space to store and ship goods – it performs additional functions that provide added value for our customers and accelerates the supply chain. This includes sorting, quality control and evaluation of goods, according to the different markets and customer needs. Thanks to our strategic warehouse partners, we’re pleased to offer these enhanced warehousing solutions to our customers in the UK and Ireland and to the wider market, supporting both local and international businesses with all transport and storage needs.”

Each facility provides dedicated areas for pallet racking, general order picking/packing and short- to long-term storage. Furthermore, in combination with cargo-partner’s extensive worldwide network and air, sea and road services, the logistics provider can offer customers a fully integrated solution.

• The Dundalk warehouse facilities are across three units, offering racked pallet positions, a dedicated pick and pack area and Haz storage/delivery, monitored by CCTV.
• The Ashbourne facility (expected for operation in July 2023) offers brand new storage space and 13 HGV docking bays in a secure compound monitored by CCTV.
• The Lichfield warehouse facility offers racked and bulk storage, container handling and freight consolidation. The site is monitored by CCTV and manned by a security team.
• The Doncaster warehouse hub enables bulk and racked storage in a prime location within a 15-minute radius of five major motorway networks and in close vicinity to the IPORT rail terminal. The site is manned 24 hours and monitored by CCTV.

UK/Ireland Warehousing Capabilities Enhanced

cargo-partner offers a variety of comprehensive logistics service packages to support customers with warehousing, transport and distribution, and is pleased to have enhanced these capabilities across the UK and Ireland.

With expertise in logistics and worldwide transport, cargo-partner already operates a dense network of warehouses throughout Europe, Southeast Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, Australia and the USA. In addition to this, the company has now enhanced its facilities throughout the UK and Ireland.

Working alongside key logistics partners, cargo-partner can now offer vast warehouse space in Dundalk, Co. Louth and Ashbourne, Co. Meath in Ireland, and further warehousing space in Lichfield and Doncaster in England. These four new warehouse solutions are positioned in and close by to key transport hubs, with strategic connections to airports, ports, rail and road networks.

cargo-partner’s Managing Director for Ireland, Fergal Keenan, said: “We continue to expand cargo-partner’s capabilities, profile and facilities across Western Europe and this includes working with partners and suppliers to invest in more warehousing solutions across the UK and Ireland. Today, the ideal warehouse is more than a space to store and ship goods – it performs additional functions that provide added value for our customers and accelerates the supply chain. This includes sorting, quality control and evaluation of goods, according to the different markets and customer needs. Thanks to our strategic warehouse partners, we’re pleased to offer these enhanced warehousing solutions to our customers in the UK and Ireland and to the wider market, supporting both local and international businesses with all transport and storage needs.”

Each facility provides dedicated areas for pallet racking, general order picking/packing and short- to long-term storage. Furthermore, in combination with cargo-partner’s extensive worldwide network and air, sea and road services, the logistics provider can offer customers a fully integrated solution.

• The Dundalk warehouse facilities are across three units, offering racked pallet positions, a dedicated pick and pack area and Haz storage/delivery, monitored by CCTV.
• The Ashbourne facility (expected for operation in July 2023) offers brand new storage space and 13 HGV docking bays in a secure compound monitored by CCTV.
• The Lichfield warehouse facility offers racked and bulk storage, container handling and freight consolidation. The site is monitored by CCTV and manned by a security team.
• The Doncaster warehouse hub enables bulk and racked storage in a prime location within a 15-minute radius of five major motorway networks and in close vicinity to the IPORT rail terminal. The site is manned 24 hours and monitored by CCTV.

Turnkey Solution de-palletizing Pallets to Trays

With the launch of a new de-palletization system, Körber Supply Chain claims to be the first supplier of automated logistics solutions to offer a total turnkey solution for the separation of goods from pallet to tray. The goal is to fully automate and eliminate risks and sudden downtime in the sorting process.

New research shows that sudden stops and interruptions in the supply chain are the biggest concern for almost 90% of the companies surveyed within among others retail trade, consumer goods, and industrial production. This is one of the reasons why close to half of these companies expect to increase investments in strengthening their supply chain – including technology that ensures increased flexibility, transparency, and an overview.

To meet the market’s challenges, Körber Supply Chain has now, as the first supplier in the industry, developed a total solution to manage the sorting of products from pallets to trays. The solution is called Downstream. It is a de-palletizing system that separates each pallet layer into individual items, which can be turned and tilted to fit into trays and prepared for further distribution through a conveyor belt.

It is not straightforward to break down pallets into trays in a fully automated solution with the large variety of products handled by many companies. The overview is lost, when one mistake results in sudden downtime, creating an inefficient sorting process. Therefore, a reliable and durable automated logistics system was needed, which ensures higher productivity and stability and is future-proof in relation to new products, says René Kahr, Product Manager at Körber Supply Chain.

A complex operation in a simple system

The pallet to tray solution has been part of Körber Supply Chain’s portfolio for a few years, but the new version is a natural development by the tech company. The latest version is more intuitive and adaptable, thus decreasing potential downtime in the process. De-palletizing from pallet to tray is not affected by unique product packaging designs, slip sheets, or changes in the assortment, which are otherwise the classic culprits for errors and downtime.

When there are changes in packaging and assortments, problems arise in automated logistics. We now make the complex easy, and our system effortlessly sorts a pallet into smaller packages for distribution. In addition, the system can be integrated into other integrator solutions, while our software can be adapted to the individual distribution center’s quantities and sizes, explains René Kahr.

He explains that Downstream is estimated to be able to sort up to 2,400 items per hour, with sorted packages being redistributed and loaded onto a tray with one to six items on each tray.

The new solution builds on digital enablement

At Körber Supply Chain, one of the main goals is “digital enablement”. The goal is to help companies improve productivity and operations by implementing digital solutions. The pallet to tray solution is an AI-based solution that, with data tracking of the individual products throughout the entire process, 100% automatically transforms whole pallets into separate items on trays without manual intervention. The objective is to help to move companies towards a much more efficient operation.

There doesn’t exist a turnkey solution on the market about the redistribution from pallet to tray. With the new Downstream, we are closing that gap. It will help optimize operations, save resources, and remove uncertainty in an automated logistics process at distribution centers. The solution has already been sold to some of the leading players, so we know there is a need for the solution in several markets. The potential is high, says Ralph Korsbæk, Head of Sales of Product Solutions at Körber Supply Chain.

Turnkey Solution de-palletizing Pallets to Trays

With the launch of a new de-palletization system, Körber Supply Chain claims to be the first supplier of automated logistics solutions to offer a total turnkey solution for the separation of goods from pallet to tray. The goal is to fully automate and eliminate risks and sudden downtime in the sorting process.

New research shows that sudden stops and interruptions in the supply chain are the biggest concern for almost 90% of the companies surveyed within among others retail trade, consumer goods, and industrial production. This is one of the reasons why close to half of these companies expect to increase investments in strengthening their supply chain – including technology that ensures increased flexibility, transparency, and an overview.

To meet the market’s challenges, Körber Supply Chain has now, as the first supplier in the industry, developed a total solution to manage the sorting of products from pallets to trays. The solution is called Downstream. It is a de-palletizing system that separates each pallet layer into individual items, which can be turned and tilted to fit into trays and prepared for further distribution through a conveyor belt.

It is not straightforward to break down pallets into trays in a fully automated solution with the large variety of products handled by many companies. The overview is lost, when one mistake results in sudden downtime, creating an inefficient sorting process. Therefore, a reliable and durable automated logistics system was needed, which ensures higher productivity and stability and is future-proof in relation to new products, says René Kahr, Product Manager at Körber Supply Chain.

A complex operation in a simple system

The pallet to tray solution has been part of Körber Supply Chain’s portfolio for a few years, but the new version is a natural development by the tech company. The latest version is more intuitive and adaptable, thus decreasing potential downtime in the process. De-palletizing from pallet to tray is not affected by unique product packaging designs, slip sheets, or changes in the assortment, which are otherwise the classic culprits for errors and downtime.

When there are changes in packaging and assortments, problems arise in automated logistics. We now make the complex easy, and our system effortlessly sorts a pallet into smaller packages for distribution. In addition, the system can be integrated into other integrator solutions, while our software can be adapted to the individual distribution center’s quantities and sizes, explains René Kahr.

He explains that Downstream is estimated to be able to sort up to 2,400 items per hour, with sorted packages being redistributed and loaded onto a tray with one to six items on each tray.

The new solution builds on digital enablement

At Körber Supply Chain, one of the main goals is “digital enablement”. The goal is to help companies improve productivity and operations by implementing digital solutions. The pallet to tray solution is an AI-based solution that, with data tracking of the individual products throughout the entire process, 100% automatically transforms whole pallets into separate items on trays without manual intervention. The objective is to help to move companies towards a much more efficient operation.

There doesn’t exist a turnkey solution on the market about the redistribution from pallet to tray. With the new Downstream, we are closing that gap. It will help optimize operations, save resources, and remove uncertainty in an automated logistics process at distribution centers. The solution has already been sold to some of the leading players, so we know there is a need for the solution in several markets. The potential is high, says Ralph Korsbæk, Head of Sales of Product Solutions at Körber Supply Chain.

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