These are exciting times for UK garment manufacturers – if they embrace digitalisation, writes Karl H. Lauri, managing team member at MRPeasy.com. Significant changes are under way in the garment and apparel manufacturing industry. In many cases they are both driving and being driven by …
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An IT recipe for food and beverage supply chain success
A world of opportunity is opening up for smaller and more specialist food and beverage producers – but only if their manufacturing and business information systems are fit for purpose, explains Karl H. Lauri, managing team member at MRPeasy.com. Even before the pandemic, food retailers were …
SME backbone for biotech supply chains
With Covid-19 vaccine delivery highlighting the need for resilience in pharma and biotech supply chains, Karl H. Lauri,managing team member at MRPeasy.com, explains that ERP/MRP gives smaller suppliers the backbone required to take part. The pandemic has starkly revealed not only the science and …
Solution for logistics companies integration with OnBuy
Utordo allows logistics companies to integrate with the world’s fastest-growing online marketplace, OnBuy Utordo – the cloud-based multi-channel order management solution – is now fully integrated with OnBuy.com, the fastest-growing online marketplace in the world and the largest UK-founded …
The best is yet to come
Given that the concepts behind Materials Requirement Planning are now around fifty years old, you might think that Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and its siblings would now count as ‘mature’. But in fact ERP/MRP is only just getting started, and the best is yet to come, writes Karl H. Lauri, …
‘Mini Yellow’ sortation robots help ZTO meet the demands of ‘singles day’
ZTO has introduced ‘Mini Yellow’ autonomous mobile robot (AMR) technology from LiBiao Robot at the Hangzhou site. With a client list that includes such e-commerce giants as Alibaba, PDD and JD.com, ZTO Express’s share of the Chinese express parcel delivery market is approaching 20 per cent, …
Leading Japanese parcel company installs ‘Mini Yellow’ technology
LiBiao Robot has supplied parcel sortation solutions based on its ‘Mini Yellow’ autonomous mobile robot technology to four sites operated by Yamato, Japan’s leading parcel delivery company. Cross-belt robots with a capacity of 30kg have been deployed at the facilities which are strategically …
Robots as a Service solutions bring instant payback
Logistics companies of every size can enjoy the benefits of state-of-the-art autonomous mobile robot-based parcel sorting technology thanks to LiBiao’s ‘Robots as a Service’ finance scheme, says Xia Huiling, LiBiao’s founder and CEO ‘Pay-as-you-go’ Robots as a Service (RaaS) finance solutions …
Simplify supply chain complexity and seize the future
by Karl H. Lauri, managing team member at MRPeasy.com – a cloud-based, affordable and user-friendly ERP/MRP software for small manufacturers and distributors (10-200 employees). The combination of globalisation, e-commerce and the Internet has blown apart the post-war ‘standard business model’, …
