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The RIC Group’s WMS Application Certified By Acumatica

The RIC Group application is recognized as an “Acumatica-Certified Application” by the cloud ERP company
 
Melbourne, Victoria, 13/08/21 -- The RIC Group, The Intelligent WMS, today announced that its software has been recognized as an Acumatica-Certified Application (ACA). Acumatica, the world’s fastest-growing cloud ERP company, was recently recognized as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled Medium-Sized/Midmarket Business ERP Applications 2020 Vendor Assessment.
 
Acumatica is a comprehensive, browser-based Cloud ERP solution optimized for ease of use, adaptability, mobility, speed and security. The ACA title highlights outstanding development partners whose applications have met the highest standards set for Acumatica integration and functionality.
 
“Customers who want to stay competitive need flexible, responsive technology to execute their long-term business strategies,” said Christian Lindberg, vice president of partner solutions at Acumatica. “Our ACA label is built to help customers find applications capable of delivering that. We’re proud to recognize The RIC Group’s WMS as an Acumatica-Certified Application. It masterfully utilizes the Acumatica platform to meet customers’ evolving business demands.”
 
To become an Acumatica-Certified Application, The RIC Group has demonstrated commitment to quality by passing the Acumatica software test and aligning to future Acumatica roadmap releases.
 
“We’re honored to receive this kind of recognition from the Acumatica developers themselves,” said Paul Ellis, Director. “This is a testament to the strength of our application and the depth of our integration with the Acumatica platform. With our suite of enhancements and Acumatica’s solid foundation, I believe the sky’s the limit for us.”
 
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About The RIC Group
The RIC Group, based in Melbourne, is solving supply chain problems across the globe with a tailored approach to allow for an agile deployment of our WMS. Our WMS is built on cloud and mobile technology. Learn more by visiting https://www.thericgroup.com.au/

It is really important to stay informed about the Supported (security fixes) from Google for Android. Currently Android 8.1 and above are supported for security fixes. Android 8.1 was originally end of support by April 30, 2021, but postponed due to Covid-19 pandemic.

When you implement Android RF scanners or Android tablets into your business you need to ensure that you understand the supported versions by Google and when the release dates were. It is also important that you ask the consultant advising you on the hardware you are purchasing about the supported Android versions and supported security fixes.

To see the Android version history see here.

Android typically supports an OS version for 3 years and being on the latest security reduces your risk. The importance of Cyber-security is more relevant than ever with digital transformation.

For enterprise customers, such as customers implementing a Warehouse Management Solution on Android RF scanners managing Android OS upgrades has to be made easy. Honeywell scanners have a great platform called Mobility Edge. More information here.

Cipherlab also allows you to upgrade to Android version as well.

Please feel free to contact us on sales@thericgroup.com for further information.

Productivity in both Australia and New Zealand is low, and it looks like the trajectory isn’t likely to improve in the next five years.
This economic measure of income growth seeks to quantify how efficiently resources, such as capital and labour are used to produce output – such as the goods and services we consume every day.
While productivity appears to be impacted by the pandemic in Australia, there are also systemic issues in New Zealand, if recent modelling is anything to go by. Either way, at the end of the day, it’s causing a big headache for organisations in both regions.
Productivity in Australia and New Zealand

• Australia has a long way to go in the race to bolster productivity
• New Zealand highlights innovation as crucial to improving productivity
• Both nations face higher costs of living and stagnating wages
• Adoption of digital tech is seen as a way forward

More information on the MYOB BLOG here.

With SAP Business One there are 4 BOM (Bill of Material) types. These are Production Bill of Material, Sales Bill Material, Assembly Bill of Material and Template Bill of Material.

​When customers are using Assembly BOM and they release the picks through the SAP Business One Pick Pack Manager they will note that SAP creates two separate pick lists when other items are on the sales order.

For the example above two picks lists are created. #2051 and #2051 as there is one pick list for the Assembly BOM and one for the standard product on the sales order.

Our Warehouse Management Solution for SAP Business One has retrieves the pick list directly from SAP. The architecture our WMS has always used is loosely coupled. More information here.

With two separate pick lists retrieved on the WMS it will mean they are picked separately. Normally this would mean they create two separate Delivery Documents in SAP Business One, even though they are shipped together on the same consignment.

This is where our Warehouse Management Solution for SAP Business One is the Intelligent WMS.

When the pick has an Assembly BOM in the Sales Order with other products the work flow of our WMS will drive this into a Pick and Pack Phase. In the pack screen the user will select the two picks and the WMS will join this into one Pack. As you can see above the pack has the one document number 2643, but has the two pick id's # 2052 and # 2051.

When the pack is completed the WMS will then create one delivery document in SAP Business One as pictured above. If there is integrated freight such as with Direct Freight, OneFlo, Smart Freight, Australia POST, Border Express, TNT, Toll, Star Track Or Kings Freight, then after the pack the WMS will drive into the integrated freight function. The consignment details, packaging information of lxwxh and volume of each carton and pallet will be populated into the packaging document of SAP Business One as well.

Our Intelligent WMS gives our SAP Business One clients an end to end supply chain solution which helps them improve performance, reduce costs and increase profitability.

Business Victoria supporting Victorian business to invest in new manufacturing capability.

More information here.

In this same vein, there’s a strong propensity among small businesses right now to want to fast track automation given the benefits that automating data capture and workflow processes can provide. However, those wanting to automate in terms of robotics automation – collaborative robots (cobots), intelligent automation and other autonomous mobile robots (AMR) – should really sit down with a technology solution provider to understand what groundwork needs to be laid first. Even though robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) is making these types of automation solutions more accessible to small business, we’re very frank in telling customers, “you don’t want to skip over critical steps in your transformation journey that could set you back years.”

The above paragraph was taken from the zebra article here. It discusses with SMB businesses the important of adopting an Enterprise Mobility Strategy.

Small businesses need guidance and support of a technology partner who they can trust to be available. This is really important as a business goes through the transformation journey. When we implement TBO4 our Warehouse Management Solution it becomes the operational centre for your business.

When it comes to enterprise mobility The RIC Group understands how to break automation down into manageable pieces. One of the most important decisions when looking to automate your business and implement a Enterprise Mobility strategy is will you get the support you need. This is a really import step to ensure you select the right technology partner to help you through the transformation journey.

At The RIC Group we live and breathe Enterprise Mobility. Implementing Warehouse Management Solutions is what we do and we ensure we provide a solution and guidance to our customers. When looking at automating the warehouse with a WMS, it is really important to understand what groundwork needs to be laid first.

The WMS is the beating heart of your business, which is why WMS is one of the most critical inventory management features. When you want to equip your team with powerful Warehouse Management Software you really need to ensure you select the right technology partner to implement and support the WMS as well.

Do you have an Enterprise Mobility Strategy? Speak with our team at sales@thericgroup.com to talk further and have the guidance you need when implementing supply chain solution for your business.

The RIC Group's Warehouse Management Solution uses the Service Layer to post data into SAP Business One SQL version. Our WMS can use the Service Layer which was previously only available for SAP HANA and is now available for SAP Business One 10.0 PL01 and later.

There is quite a large difference in technology between the Service Layer and DI API. The DI API derives from Microsoft COM technology and fits best in the Windows native environment.

Service Layer is an OData-compliant data service with a smoother learning curve, which enables easy Web Mashup, or effortless add-on development in various languages (Java, JavaScript, .Net) using 3rd-party libraries.

The Service Layer provides lightweight and faster results and simple transactions and RESTful.

We have had a number of customers upgrade to SAP Business One V10 and our WMS and TMS is working well using the Service Layer. We aren't experience any issues with patch levels.

With the Service Layer it adds a lot of flexibility for our customers as you can have SAP Business One and the Warehouse Management Solution implemented on completely different environments.

For information on Working with SAP Business One Service Layer please click here.

With the recent events of the Covid-19 pandemic companies are looking to improve innovation and technology adoption for their business. This is to help their processes and productivity to support their future growth.

One of trends that we saw in 2020 was when implementing a Warehouse Management solution the customers wanted integrated freight. I blogged about integrated freight as a business gain when implementing a WMS in 2016 here.

There is no doubt if your current warehouse management solution (WMS) does not offer direct integration with the carriers you use, your optimal dispatch capability will just not cut it. And will be harder to manage at peak times.

There is the need for automated order fulfillment and our Warehouse Management Solution can help your business. It will streamline your business for pick and pack fulfillment, manifesting and shipping processes, by seamlessly integrating with your carriers.

We have had integrated freight with Australia POST, StarTrack and Toll for some years and recently over the last while we have added more freight integration. Our WMS now offers integration with Border Express (BEx), Direct Freight, Mainfreight, Smart Freight and Kings Freight. This helps you as a business to lower costs, increase accuracy, increase efficiency, improve customer service and save on costs.

There is no more need to have an employee enter in details into your freight management software and have the freight labels printed after the packing is completed. A lot of our customers print the freight label during the picking phase. Not only this this label can be used a your EDI label as well for the SSCC carton. This helps save your costs on label printing dramatically.

Speak with our sales team by emailing us at sales@thericgroup.com for further information on our WMS solution can help your business save money.