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LONDON, HONG KONG, June 17, 2008
CDC Software, a wholly owned subsidiary of CDC Corporation and a provider of industry-specific enterprise software and services, today announced that Schneider Electric has gone live with its upgrade to cWMS Release 10, a warehouse management system that is part of the CDC Supply Chain suite of supply chain solutions, that are expected to help the company further improve fulfilment rates and overall productivity, increase capacity, reduce costs and streamline efficiencies.
With more than 2,000 employees and revenue in excess of £500 million in the U.K., Schneider is a leading supplier of electrical distribution and automation control products and services in the country and has rapidly expanded its logistics operations over the past 10 years.
Since first implementing an earlier version of CDC Software’s cWMS 10 years ago, Schneider Electric consolidated two of its warehouse sites, while at the same time expanding capacity to 50 tons of throughput per day, covering 14,000 product lines, resulting in significant cost savings and higher productivity.
Andrew Holdroyd, logistics projects manager, said, “We needed to upgrade our warehouse functionality and systems to support our growing business volume and new distribution service in a multi-brand environment. We already have achieved many important benefits using CDC Software’s cWMS solution including a delivery fulfilment rate of 99.7 percent, improved stock accuracy, audit trails, workload monitoring, visibility and increased information. The recent successful go-live, on time and under budget, confirms the commitment of our two companies to achieve continual improvements to meet the on-going change and demands within our business. We look forward to many more years working with CDC Software to deliver increased levels of functionality and service that will drive continued benefits and profitability to our business.”
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Per Norling, president of CDC Supply Chain said, “We are always very pleased and proud to manage and support long-term client relationships such as the one we have with Schneider Electric. Not only is this a testament to our products, services and support, but also our commitment to helping our customers meet their ever-changing operational needs and business requirements with our new version releases of our products.”
Michael Shrimplin, logistics development analyst for Schneider Electric, concluded, “The implementation of the new system was practically seamless and was carried out with no negative impact on our customer service levels. While the initial go-live covered an ‘as-is’ upgrade, the latest version of cWMS will allow us to implement additional functionality that is expected to drive additional productivity, efficiency and profitability benefits for the organisation. These include capabilities such as cartonisation, which will help improve item scanning, picking accuracy and overall quality control.”
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