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Juniper Innovations helps you to improve control in your supply chain & organisation. Receiving our specialist advice, creativity, innovation and products you can improve by: increasing on-time deliveries, completing more customer jobs, reducing fleet and labour costs, measuring performance and quality, increasing warehouse shipping reliability, reducing product loss and asset theft, plus protecting maintenance, field & lone workers.
Technology, Transportation & Logistics

AND Solutions Forms Swindon Alliance With Juniper Innovations

Swindon, Wiltshire, AND Solutions, Technical Writing specialists have formed an alliance with Supply Chain technology consultancy, Juniper Innovations, to help provide clients with greater supply chain control as well as user friendly documents for internal processes and training.

Simon Butler, Managing Director of AND Solutions explains “Juniper Innovations have range of off the shelf software and tracking hardware devices from warehouse systems, RFID software and forensic level tracking solutions, GPS trailer tracking and temperature monitoring devices, through to bespoke solutions from GPS/GSM hardware tracking units to website and backend office software.  Any business change such as the introduction of new technology benefits from well written, user friendly, client specific product support documentation so that company personnel understand how to use technology within their own environment, have quality assistance when they encounter difficulties, have higher technology adoption rates, use more features and functions that the technology brings and reduce time resolving questions they have.”

Richard Knight from Juniper Innovations continues “the alliance is strong because AND Solutions have Technical Writing and IT business analysis skills in the core sectors we work in, for example manufacturing and logistics. They have worked with companies such as Maersk Sealand, Motorola, Boots plc and Huawei Technologies.  This helps us all to understand client problems faster and help put the best and highest quality solutions together more effectively.”

Having practical solutions in areas such as manufacturing, pharmaceutical and logistics industries is important because of the criticality of time, cost and quality.  For AND Solutions this means not only helping put Juniper Innovations’ technology solutions in place, but also helping an organisation’s personnel adopt them faster and get more from them.  Simon Butler elaborates “sometimes this means writing documentation in a style and language that local people can quickly grasp using site specific terminology, or it could mean using a variety of communication methods from online help, printed brochures and procedures or quick reference guides.  Plus well written documentation also enables the development of a well structured training package, providing better trained staff able to support the products to the best advantage of the company and that of the end user.  The bottom line is both the technology and local user documentation will help people perform more effectively and use technology intuitively.”

The resulting aim for the alliance is to help supply chains gain greater control through cost management and reduction, quality improvements and being more productive and efficient.  Both businesses have offices in Swindon, but support client projects in the UK and throughout Europe.  Additionally, between them they have support offices in Europe, China and the United States allowing greater client support around the world.

 

About AND Solutions

AND Solutions is a Technical Communication Consultancy, staffed entirely by Technical Communication professionals, each with more than 10 years’ experience and with expert knowledge of the Technical Publications industry.  All consultants are corporate members of the Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators and are bound by that body’s Code of Professional Practice. AND Solutions’ consultants have worked in a wide variety of industries, producing Information Products such as Product User Guides and Manuals, System Administrator Guides, Contractual and Requirements documentation, Development and Test information.  For more information visit http://www.and-solutions.co.uk/

 

About Juniper Innovations

Juniper Innovations helps you to improve control in your supply chain & organisation.

Receiving our specialist advice, creativity, innovation and products you can improve by: increasing on-time deliveries, completing more customer jobs, reducing fleet and labour costs, measuring performance and quality, increasing warehouse shipping reliability, having accurate inventory records, reducing product loss and asset theft, plus protecting maintenance, field & lone workers.  More information can be found at http://www.juniperinnovations.co.uk

Technology

Juniper Innovations Launch New GPS Tracking Hardware For Vans, Cabs And Trailers

Swindon, Wiltshire, Juniper Innovations who provide supply chain tracking and authentication products have launched a new GPS tracking device, the AT220.  Suitable for council transport, refuse collection vehicles, transport, logistics, construction & maintenance companies the device can be used on vehicles ranging from small vans and cars through to buses, plant equipment, HGV cabs and stand alone trailers.

Introduced as a way to provide a competitively priced product with a good range of functionality  the AT220 when wired up to a vehicle’s engine will monitor and record information to help control fuel usage including engine start/stop, mileage and distance recording, driving reports such as increased/decreased acceleration, sharp braking and engine idling.

Using Juniper Innovations’ GPS tracking software, supply chain and security control can also managed with Geofences to understand or be alerted by movements into and out of sites and areas specified by times of the day and night, plus records showing when vehicles or trailers arrived at and departed a site.

The range of AT220 features also includes integrated antennas for simple and quick installation, compact size being approximately cigarette packet dimensions, internal back-up battery option for continuous operation, GPRS (TCP or UDP), SMS PDU and SMS text modes, IP67 rated weather-proof enclosure, motion sensor, auto-sensing of engine status (stopped/running) from power feed, CANBus integration, simple and flexible user configuration by RS232, SMS or GPRS, remote diagnostics by GPRS or SMS plus a 3 year warranty included as standard.  Other technical specifications can be found on Juniper Innovations’ website at http://www.juniperinnovations.co.uk/at220-gps-tracking-device

The GPS tracking hardware device also comes with a standard data package and web based reporting software.  Juniper Innovations also offer integration with any organisation’s existing systems to help improve supply chain control.  For more information visit the Juniper Innovations’ website at http://www.juniperinnovations.co.uk

About Juniper Innovations

Juniper Innovations helps you to improve control in your supply chain & organisation.

Receiving our specialist advice, creativity, bespoke or off the shelf hardware & software products, you can improve by increasing on-time deliveries, completing more customer jobs, reducing fleet and labour costs, measuring performance and quality, increasing warehouse shipping reliability, having accurate inventory records, reducing product loss and asset theft, plus securely protecting maintenance, field & lone workers.

Juniper Innovations provide products that track and authenticate inventory and products at shipment, pallet and product level.  Their solutions include a warehouse management system (WMS) and RFID middleware as well as RTLS and GPS tracking solutions.

Technology

Frissul Launch ISRetail’s Warehouse Management System

Swindon, Wiltshire, Frissul, the international third party logistics organisation required specialist warehouse management system software to provide their clients greater supply chain control. 

Frissul required warehousing and distribution software to support their growing company within the third party logistics sector, operating across multiple client accounts that specialised in quality control and productivity improvements whilst controlling frozen distribution.  Frissul selected ISRetail as their preferred warehouse system software partner.  A key part of the selection was ensuring the software supported a third party logistics organisation and could support and control cold storage and freight for food producers, national and international retail companies.

As part of the successful project ISRetail:

  • Helped scope out third party logistics operational frozen food processes
  • Implemented software to support third party logistics warehouse and delivery processes
  • Interfaced the software to customers ERP systems using EDI
  • Developed specific niche functionality such as creation of security for use between different clients across multiple sites and for use by different client shipping in the same site, systematically managing multiple client orders simultaneously within the same & different buildings and maintaining a pick and pack audit trail within a building to help measure and split costs between different clients
  • Integrating specialist frozen and radio frequency data capture devices

 

The project benefits after a successful implementation included:

  • Technology to fully control multiple client orders and inventory across multiple sites and multiple clients in the same site
  • Improved overall warehouse labour productivity by over 20%+
  • Solution giving national coverage 24 hour 7 day a week
  • Cloud based solution helping to lower the initial investment amount & speed up the implementation
  • Integration of specialist hardware for frozen operations
  • Client audit readiness
  • No software surprises
  • Smooth integration of partners

 

 

About ISRetail

Richard Knight, Managing Director of ISRetail UK comments “ISRetail (http://www.isretail.eu/) is one of the leading vendors of warehouse management system and supply chain management and tracking software. It provides web based solutions for professional use enabling customers to improve their inventory management, product level supply chain tracking, labour management, customer service, communication and supply chain control.” ISRetail has over 10 years experience in software development, database management, data capture device integration, interface development and supply chain consultancy.  ISRetail’s products and services include logistics productivity improvement consultancy, process improvement services, WPMS warehouse, RFID and supply chain control software all provided as both client-server and Software As A Service (SaaS) solutions.

Their customers include Staples, Jerónimo Martins, Pingo Doce and Staples.  Their head office is in Lisbon, Portugal and they have a UK office working with Juniper Innovations in Wiltshire, England (http://www.juniperinnovations.co.uk).  Juniper Innovations’ helped write ISRetail’s software and supply it as a best of breed solution to improve labour management, inventory and supply chain control.

 

About Juniper Innovations

Juniper Innovations helps you to improve control in your supply chain & organisation.

Receiving our specialist advice, creativity, innovation and products you can improve by: increasing on-time deliveries, completing more customer jobs, reducing fleet and labour costs, measuring performance and quality, increasing warehouse shipping reliability, having accurate inventory records, reducing product loss and asset theft, plus protecting maintenance, field & lone workers.

Technology

Help Required For Supply Chain & Retail, RFID & Carbon Emissions Reduction Project

Swindon, Wiltshire, Juniper Innovations are supporting ISRetail on a project with The Supply Chain Carbon Council, Avery Dennison, NXP and Nordic ID amongst others and request help from manufacturers and retailers.

To help carbon emission innovation, ISRetail, a leading supply chain software, warehouse management and RFID system solution and data management provider is working on a carbon emissions reduction project with the European Supply Chain Institute (ESCI) ‘Supply Chain Carbon Council’.

The projects aims to:

  1. Promote the application of RFID to the problem of tracking Carbon Emissions through the supply chain at product level
  2. Address how, with an NFC Device, to make this information available to the consumer in order that they can make sustainable purchasing decisions.

 

With project partners now on board, ISRetail is looking for help from retail product manufacturers and retailers to participate in the project.

John Connors from the Supply Chain Carbon Council comments “in the relatively near future you or I should be able to go to our local store and scan the RFID Carbon Label on the product with an NFC Device to get its environmental impact data and use this information to see whether it is environmentally friendly or not. In the end it will be the consumer who is the final decision maker as to whether the product is green or not.

When the consumer scans the product the NFC reader will communicate with the master data over the mobile network and receive an sms giving the information requested. This type of value added application for NFC will really bring the technology away from the traditional focuses on payment and ticketing.”

John Connors continues “we know that technically this application has no major barriers. Equally all retailers and manufacturers will also see the positives in terms of their Green product Labelling and NFC based loyalty schemes.”

Any retail product manufacturer or retailer interested in participating in the project can contact Richard Knight by filling in the contact form on the Juniper Innovations website here http://www.juniperinnovations.co.uk/contact

 

About ISRetail

Richard Knight, Managing Director of ISRetail UK comments “ISRetail (http://www.isretail.eu/) is one of the leading vendors of warehouse management system and supply chain management and tracking software. It provides web based solutions for professional use enabling customers to improve their inventory management, customer service, communication and supply chain control.” ISRetail has over 10 years experience in software development, database management, data capture device integration, interface development and supply chain consultancy.  ISRetail’s products and services include logistics productivity improvement consultancy, process improvement services, WPMS warehouse, RFID and supply chain control software all provided as both client-server and Software As A Service (SaaS) solutions.

Their customers include Staples, Jerónimo Martins, Pingo Doce and Frissul.  Their head office is in Lisbon, Portugal and they have a UK office working with Juniper Innovations in Wiltshire, England (http://www.juniperinnovations.co.uk).

 

Editors Note

The European Supply Chain Institute, ESCI, is a member body that researches areas that have a direct and positive impact on supply chain operations. The Supply Chain Carbon Council is administered by the Institute. The Membership of the Institute is predominantly at Senior Management level and represents cross-industry disciplines.

Technology

Juniper Innovations Launch Specialist Lone Worker Devices

Swindon, Wiltshire February 09, 2011, Employers have a duty of care to ensure their employees are safe from harm and are supported when working alone and away from their employer’s place of work.  To help meet the obligations Juniper Innovations have launched a state of the art, portable lone worker device.

The device looks like a mobile phone and can be carried by lone workers, allowing them to make calls or alert help if they require it.  With panic alarm, man down motion detector e.g. if a lone worker has had a fall and pin point outdoor and indoor tracking features it is suitable for a wide range of workers.  In addition for extra protection, by discretely pressing a button the device can silently monitor conversations the lone worker has when in a threatening situation.  It also integrates up to five communication options, including text messaging, system-wide IEEE 802.15.4 for communication with a keyfob/internal building tracking, Bluetooth for hands free communication, and ANT (*) for heart rate monitoring.  Additionally the portable device is IP65 rated for use outdoors.

The device links to Juniper Innovations’ tracking software, which enables real time reporting of GPS signals and other alert information that can be automatically text or emailed to preconfigured numbers and email addresses.  So for example, managers and colleagues know in real time from the software when a lone worker has strayed into certain areas at specified times of the day and night, when they weren’t planning to do so.  The device and software can also produce timesheet information to improve future planning and reduce administration.

The lone worker device and software is aimed at a wide range of personnel from field technicians and hospital workers to community care workers, teaching staff, maintenance technicians, garage forecourt and retail personnel.  More information including a technical specification can be found on Juniper Innovations’ website at http://juniperinnovations.co.uk/lone-worker-tracking

Juniper Innovations provide innovation, investment and support models to organisations as well as tracking and authentication products and support services.  In addition Juniper Innovations also provide free tracking and authentication hints and tips on their blog site http://juniperinnovations.co.uk/blog