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Suzuki
 Suzuki designs and manufactures a vast range of motor-powered vehicles, including automobiles, off-road bikes, and marine machines, retailing in dozens of countries across Asia, America, Europe and Africa.
The Agility RF barcode warehouse system purchased by Suzuki will specifically help the firm to better cope with its increasing demand in the UK marketplace and offers hand held and fork truck RF barcode terminals to better track goods and packages, as well as advanced receiving capabilities to increase efficiency of accepting goods into the warehouse.
Benefits will also come from Agility’s advanced inventory system, including directed putaway, picking and dispatching, which will improve inventory accuracy and make perpetual inventory part of the picking process, and the installation of packing benches with full screen applications to allow repacking after picking.
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Leading UK wholesale IT distributor, Westcoast, will be operating even more efficiently from now on, after an advanced warehousing system from Agility Systems went live at two of its sites.
The new interactive system, which has taken just three months to implement, delivers additional functionality to Westcoast’s JBA system to provide more efficient control over inbound and outbound processes, including purchase receipt, putaway and dispatching to sales order. The fully automated system, which is now live at Westcoast sites in Reading and Milton Keynes, will also deliver greater stock control in moves, transfers and replenishments.
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Morphy Richards
 Morphy Richards had put in place an extensive range of procedures and controls to ensure that goods were received, picked and shipped to customers. However, these controls and procedures relied heavily on mountains of paperwork and manual recording.
In a project to remove paper-work, streamline processes and increase throughput capacity, Morphy Richards selected Agility to install their iLink data capture products and consoles to meet these requirements without the need to increase headcount.
Agility have extended the capability of the Morphy Richards System21 application by adding new supply chain functionality including:
- Automatic holding of stock on receipt – for quality checking
- Unique pallet number labelling (Licence plate control)
- Pick to pallet and pallet manifest labels
- Pallet Tracking
In addition, a new Agility Marshalling product will direct the pickers to take goods to assigned marshalling lanes for assembly into loads, including pallet merging and pallet re-building and order checking using radio data terminals. Full visibility of the content and status of each load in marshalling can be viewed on the Agility graphical Marshalling Console, giving up-to-date visibility of the loading and status of each load, order and pallet.
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Brighthouse
 BrightHouse invested in Agility’s Movex-based system to help with warehouse management, process integration and accurate identification and location of stock.
The solution, which uses an open Systems Microsoft .NET application suite to add functionality to Brighthouse’s Movex ERP system, successfully went live at key sites in Heywood, Bothwell, Birmingham and Cardiff, in January, following a six month implementation process.
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Expert Logistics
 An implementation of System21 Location Control provided Expert Logistics with a high level of stock control but a heavy burden of recording stock movements back into System21. From day one Expert realised that the only way a high level of efficiency could be maintained would be to introduce radio data terminals to record stock movements quickly and accurately.
Agility was selected to provide the solution.
Fork lift trucks can now receive, move and despatch a high volume of white consumer goods without any keying of data back into a System21 screen, as all instructions and data recording is performed by iLink. As some goods are very fast moving Agility have provided Expert with x-docking functionality, which automatically detects receipts which are required for despatching the following day and instructs the fork lift truck drivers to locate the receipts directly into the appropriate despatch bay, to save on put-away and picking time.
Fellowes
 Fellowes have proven benefits achieved from implementing iLink products using the Agility Efficiency module. All of Fellowes transactions captured by the radio data terminal, including purchase receiving, put-away, picking and marshalling, automatically record the efficiency statistics of the operator and the stock movement into the Agility Efficiency database.
Using Crystal Reports, Fellowes have built a number of reports of the efficiency data to show, in graph form, such information as:
- Units picked per operator per day
- Inbound pallet count
- Increase In bulk picks per day
- Warehouse operating costs
- Direct labour headcount per shift
Using this information Fellowes have been able to prove, and monitor, accurately the performance of their warehouse operation and the benefits they are achieving from the Agility data capture solutions.
iLink Management Consoles have provided Dams with a single user console which allows the user to view orders, order status’s and group orders ready for picking. From the same console the user also has access to the Dams Diary system for the booking of delivery slots with customers and agreeing delivery instructions. The use of a single graphical console has ensured that orders can only be progressed through a set sequence of events, and the data added at each stage is seamlessly integrated into each separate system.
EXEL - Network Rail
 After a very successful project with United Utilities, Exel decided to exploit the flexibility of iLink and use its extended capabilities to provide the integration layer between Networks Rail’s web based order systems and System21.
Exel use iLink and iTransform to process data files from Network Rail. ITransform is a flexible mapping application which can re-map data from one source into the format expected by another source, and then ILink is used to automatically post the data into System21. The speed and flexibility of setting up mapping profiles and processing data has meant that Exel no longer use an army of clerks to key data into System21, and iTransform integrates over 15 different data file types, every day, and into over 130 System21 stockrooms. As there is no human intervention, the ILink Batch Rejection monitor is used to capture any invalid data passed to iTransform.
 The latest Exel project has been to provide OTIF (On Time In Full) for processing orders. This graphical console uses the order data from System21 to present a view to the user of which orders can be shipped in full and within the allotted Exel delivery schedules (defined on a bespoke System21 by Exel). This technology brings together different ERP and customer databases into a single view and provides customers with a fast and efficient method of viewing data in a composite screen so that the most informed decisions can be made on how to process data. Once the required orders have been selected iLink posts the transactions automatically into System21 from the Console. This functionality has turned a complex clerical task into a simple, efficient process.
 Carron Phoenix
In November 1999, Agility were exhibiting at Computers In Manufacturing (CIM), and it was here that Carron Phoenix viewed BSC’s live demonstrations of their unique Merlin utility.
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