It was clear from the outset that Indigo's experience with this type of project would be invaluable. Indigo were never afraid to ‘tell it like it is’ and put as much effort into ensuring that our team was on target as well as their own.
Mark Kirk, IT Director & CIO,
Glen Dimplex
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PUMA UK selects Indigo's RealTime
21 Aug 2008
Indigo Software Ltd, the supply chain software specialist, today announced that Puma UK Ltd has selected Indigo’s RealTime for Infor ERP System21, for its UK national distribution centre, in Batley, West Yorkshire.
Supplying a wide range of products to the Sports and related communities, Puma has been operating for sixty years in 2008.
Puma conducted an assessment of their existing inbound product receipt processes and procedures towards the end of 2007, concluding that their existing inventory management processes needed to be streamlined and improved to allow the business to continue its growth. The number and frequency of deliveries were increasing, and were becoming a bottleneck in checking of the deliveries and entering the data manually into Infor’s ERP System21 Aurora. Therefore Puma made the decision that during 2008, they would address these issues and streamline the flow of receipt data into System21.
As part of the supplier evaluation process Puma invited Indigo to conduct a strategic business review of their processes. Indigo confirmed its intention to propose their Realtime Receiving module for the first phase of the streamlining project.
Colin Hough, Business Development Manager at Indigo, commented – “Implementing a goods receiving module at Puma will add significant value to the overall process, everyone was working flat out at times to ensure the goods were recorded correctly and assigned to the correct purchase orders. Add into this process the complication of bonded stock and you can see that the increasing frequency and the sheer number of items on each shipment had the potential to overwhelm the Goods in process on a daily basis.
The receipting of goods is now all automated with Radio Data Terminals scanning in the relevant information. The process is faster, more accurate and has helped in streamlining the day to day goods inwards activity.”
John Sturch, Operation Manager and Project Sponsor commented – “ With the growth in the business that Puma is currently experiencing, it means that more product is arriving at the distribution centre than ever before. The need to accurately book in the items, bearing in mind the permutations of shape, style, colour and size is paramount. We believe that the Indigo Realtime solution will allow us to do that in a much more timely and accurate manner. We will be implementing RealTime during the second half of 2008 and are confident to recoup the investment in under 12 months.”
As part of the project , Puma have also invested in Intermec’s latest terminals and associated wireless backbone infrastructure. Intermec’s proven hardware has been part of Indigos solutions for over 17 years.
About Indigo
Indigos best-in-class software applications and services help organisations to improve their supply chain performance in increasingly competitive environments, amidst growing customer and business pressures. These include software applications that streamline and automate key business processes such as: warehouse management, supply chain execution and RFID compliance within Infor ERP System21.
Organisations across Europe, from mid-size supply chain organisations to global household brand names, are benefiting from Indigo’s software solutions. Customers include: Dairy Crest, Glen Dimplex, Greene King, DAMS, Jacuzzi, Rahbekfisk,McCabes Ring Group, Joe Bloggs, Animal, Bunzl (Australia), Agrokor (Croatia) and Oscar Mayer.
Further information is available at www.indigo.co.uk or through email at pr@indigo.co.uk.
About Puma
PUMA has the long-term aim of becoming the most desirable Sportlifestyle Company in the World.
This will be achieved by harnessing its resources and experiences to provide consumers with innovative products that successfully fuse the creative influences from the world of sport, lifestyle and fashion, thus will reinforce its position as one of the leading multi-category Sportlifestyle brands
As the sponsor of 16 national teams at the Olympic Games 2008 in Beijing, PUMA achieved a successful track record by endorsing outstanding sprinter Usain Bolt to win three gold medals and smash three world records.
Bolt is the first man in 24 years to win an Olympic sprint double while the Jamaican team finished third in the nation medal table for track and field with six gold, three silver and two bronze medals. “We were again able to impressively demonstrate PUMA’s undoubted credibility and expertise in world-class sports at the 2008 Beijing Olympics,” said Chairman and CEO Jochen Zeitz. “With our PUMA athletes and primarily Usain Bolt’s world records in the sprints, we once again set new standards and made sports history, strengthening and expanding our position as one of the leading running brands.”