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IntraLogistex, February 27th-28th 2018, Coventry

Blog, HighJump WMS, News, SAP Business One / By Claire Kerr

Balloon One will be exhibiting at IntraLogistex later this month. The logistics and supply chain solutions exhibition takes place on Tuesday 27th and Wednesday 28th February 2018 in the Ricoh Arena, Coventry. More than a hundred exhibitors will be attending IntraLogistex, demonstrating a wide variety of technology and equipment covering warehouse automation, materials handling, picking, […]

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5 Steps to Increase Your Supply Chain Productivity

Blog, Supply chain, Warehousing / By Claire Kerr

Between the end of the Second World War and the beginning of the financial crisis in 2008, the UK saw a steady growth in productivity of around 2% a year. But since 2008, the UK’s productivity has only been growing at the same pace that it was at before the industrial revolution. And for the

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Route Optimisation Added to Springboard Delivery App

Blog, News, Springboard Applications / By Claire Kerr

We’ve just updated our popular Springboard Delivery app and the new 2018 release now includes route optimisation functionality. At the click of a button, you can use route optimisation features that bring reduced travel times for your fleet. Not only do your administrators no longer have to manually plan routes, your customers get their deliveries

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7 Wholesale Distribution Trends for 2018

Blog, News, Supply chain, Warehousing / By Claire Kerr

This time last year, we were predicting that the trends in distribution in 2017 would include the rise of drop shipping, process automation, reverse logistics, exports and unified commerce. All of these predictions have been realised and 2017 has seen the supply chain landscape radically changed. But what’s to come in 2018? Read on for

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Understanding Key Performance Indicators – Part 3

Blog, KPIs / By Claire Kerr

In my previous posts, I discussed how best to set KPIs that are relevant to your company, and how to apply appropriate targets to them. In this post, I explain how best to ensure the successful use of KPIs within a company, and how to improve results. Ensure successful use of KPIs within the company

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Star Linen Case Study: Starting Up With NetSuite

Blog, NetSuite, News / By Claire Kerr

Star Linen UK provides fine linen, bedding and bedroom products to the hospitality and mid-market hotel sectors. Part of a US company that has been in business since 1987, Star Linen was set up in the UK by an experienced management team and opened for business in May 2017. A new UK startup As a

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Merry Christmas 2017, Happy New Year and a special offer

Blog, News / By Claire Kerr

We would like to wish all our customers, partners, suppliers and blog readers a very Merry Christmas 2017 and a Happy New Year. We will be completely closed for three days over the festive period: Christmas Day, Monday 25th December Boxing Day, Tuesday 26th December New Year’s Day, Monday 1st January Apart from that, our

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Korber WMS for NetSuite

Blog, HighJump WMS, NetSuite / By Claire Kerr

NetSuite’s core functionality, with its warehousing module, NetSuite WMS Lite, includes some basic stock management features. But for many of our customers who run complex ecommerce or warehousing operations, they find that a more specialised warehouse management system (WMS) can greatly enhance their capabilities – and in turn, their profits. Korber Warehouse Edge (previously Highjump

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GS1 and PEPPOL Standards: EDI and Barcodes

Blog, HighJump WMS, News / By Claire Kerr

In an effort to improve patient safety and drive supply chain transparency and efficiency, the Department of Health has mandated via its 2014 eProcurement Strategy that all products or services supplied to NHS Acute Trusts must comply with GS1 coding standards and PEPPOL messaging standards. If you supply goods or services – or any IT

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SAP Business One wins ERP category 2017 Software Excellence Awards

SAP Business One wins at 2017 Software Excellence Awards

Blog, News, SAP Business One / By Claire Kerr

A few weeks ago, SAP Business One won the prestigious Enterprise Accounting/ERP category at Accountancy Web’s 2017 Software Excellence Awards. The awards were presented to the winners by Rachel Riley – of Countdown fame – at The Brewery, in London, on 19th October 2017. Based on some 7,500 end-user product reviews, these awards reflect valid

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