NEWS
Holland & Barrett targets streamlined supply
chain with Paragon software
“To maintain our position as one of the world’s leading health
and wellness retailers, it is vital that Holland & Barrett continues to
invest in streamlining its supply chain, offering the best customer
experience possible in the most efficient manner,” said Jason
Thompson, Transport Operations Manager at Holland & Barrett.
“Paragon’s routing and scheduling software solution will enable us to
transform store replenishment, removing the need to keep high levels
of inventory in store by delivering direct to shelf. It will also enable
us to gain better understanding of where we can use third-party
logistics partners in outlying areas through strategic modelling.”
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Until now, Holland & Barrett has operated fixed daily routes with
each store receiving a single weekly delivery. However, the health and
wellness retailer decided to reduce inventory in the stores as much as
possible, which would require increasing store deliveries from one to
three times per week.
olland & Barrett has adopted Paragon’s routing and scheduling
software as part of its ongoing transformation, strengthening
operations to better deliver what customers expect in a rapidly
evolving retail sector. The software solution will enable the health
and wellness retailer to restructure its store replenishment operation
which supplies over 900 locations across the UK from its warehousing
and international distribution centre in Burton-on-Trent.
With such an extensive range of more than 9,000 different products,
this is critical to removing waste and inefficiency from the supply
chain. Following an external review of its transport management
function, Holland & Barrett decided to replace existing manual
planning processes with dynamic planning enabled by Paragon’s
routing and scheduling software.
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NTT and SES team up to provide race
management services to the Isle of Man TT Races
T
he Isle of Man Government Department
for Enterprise, the rights holder of the
Isle of Man TT Races, has announced that
it has awarded NTT Ltd, a world-leading
global technology services provider, a five
year contract to implement a real-time race
management platform for the Isle of Man
TT Races. NTT Ltd will work in partnership
with SES, a Luxembourg-based global
satellite operator, which already provides the
interface to the TT broadcasters. Although
primarily in place to provide the race
organiser with live timing and positioning
data, the platform will also have the ability
to enhance the viewing experience of
the race and attract a new generation of
digitally savvy fans.
The platform uses Amazon AWS cloud
services to collect real-time data from the
various event vehicles at any point around
the circuit which will be made available to
race fans via the official iomttraces.com
www.intelligentcio.com
website. This will facilitate live-time tracking
services for course cars, travelling marshals
and competitor race bikes at one of the most
challenging racing events in the world. The
contract also covers the Classic TT Races and
the Manx Grand Prix, all of which take place
around the iconic TT Course.
The new real-time GPS timing system is
targeted to be available for the 2021 TT
Race. It will introduce the latest available
technology to trace race bikes with a speed
of more than 200 miles per hour (322 km/h)
in real-time with a location accuracy of up
to 10 cm on the TT Course. It delivers rapid
update speeds, is highly precise and has an
accuracy of one thousandth of a second.
Its cutting-edge Machine Learning models
will improve safety and has the potential to
predict key race moments in the future.
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