Bax system offers one-stop website access shop

IT'S ALMOST like playing a computer game, and the clients love it! This Bax Global IT operator's comment sums up the manner in which the ISASTORE warehouse management system, installed a year ago, is operating. Clients go into the website, check their stock, move it about and collect all relevant details in one operation. The site provides a diagram showing the positioning of their pallets, even if only three or four of these remain from an initial stock stored on their behalf. "It provides the full spectrum of functions," says Bax Global's Alan Ingham. "This runs from inventory management to stock management, order fulfilment, pick and pack, and consolidations. It means adding more than merely good rates and service to what we offer. Customised solutions encompassing the full supply chain while adding value are the only way forward in today's highly competitive market." In addition the company provides speed and accuracy in tracking goods anywhere in the supply chain with an automated identification technology using optical character reading and scanning. Radio frequency scanning devices serve as wireless connectors to terminals and the host computer which expedites product status information. A bar-coding application generates labour reductions and provides superior data acquisition accuracy. In addition the system enables the company to provide a unique service which puts together components to build sub-assemblies which, later on, are used in a customised finished product or configuration as detailed in specifications provided by the client. This service integrates the product line in full and makes it available to markets worldwide without having to carry a complete inventory.