A platform for sustainable growth for GJS10/10/2018 GJS Group is Australia’s premier provider of solutions and services for the textile, promotional products, customer photo gift, sign and display industries. They have been running SAP Business One since 2012 and wanted to streamline processes further to improve efficiency.
To maximise operational effectiveness at GJS Group they implemented The RIC Group’s Warehouse Management Solution. Greg Stone, Managing Director at GJS states the reason for selecting The RIC Group’s WMS is it is Australian made software with ongoing product enhancements which integrates seamlessly into their existing SAP Business One environment. When asked about return on investment, Greg from GJS said “Since implementation we’re seeing a 77% reduction in costs associated with missing / misplaced stock in the warehouse. We have been able to employ a new warehouse store person and temporary staff during peak periods who have no prior knowledge of our products who learnt the software very quickly reducing our induction costs.” The WMS has ensured the reduction in travel time and touches which has helped reduce operational costs. For further information please email our sales team at sales@thericgroup.com Acumatica 2018 R2 release1/10/2018 Acumatica is the connected business platform empowering small and mid-market customers to transform their business by putting customer success at the heart of all their operations. One of the greatest features Acumatica has is its flexible deployment model. The models available are SAAS Solution with its public cloud on AWS, Licensed on Premise, Licensed in Datacentre (private cloud). Majority of the Acumatica customers are running on the Acumatica Public Cloud solution on AWS. Here is the Asia Release of Acumatica 2018 R2 webinar on YouTube from 27/09/18.
Acumatica 2018 R2 release is here and has significant improvements. One of the significant improvements is the REST API Improvements and this makes us really excited at The RIC Group. We are now starting our certification of our Warehouse Management Solution with Acumatica 2018 R2 which allows us to use Contract Version 3. Here is a blog on the Acumatica Development Network to talk about the new release for Contract Version 3. The REST API is the preferred API method and with this our customers will see advantages with our WMS. Data in REST calls is typically formatted in JSON, which is very lightweight and easy to generate and parse from Javascript and other new languages and frameworks. Innovation is key and our team leverages the latest in technology with our Warehouse Mangement Solution. The RIC Group is a certified WMS solution for Acumatica and you can visit the Acumatica website here for further information. Please send an email to sales@thericgroup.com if you have any questions regarding our WMS solution for Acumatica. Cornerstone for growth selecting the right Warehouse Management Solution for Nature One Dairy24/9/2018 Nature One Dairy is a 100% Australian-owned company dedicated to producing only the highest quality powdered milk products. They produce a range of dairy products specifically designed for every age group ranging from infants to the elderly and everything in-between.
Nature One Dairy realised that due to their growth they were going to need some serious upgrades to their ERP and Warehouse Management Solution to ensure they were able to obtain the high level of service their clients came to expect. The business was growing and so did the need for a system with more functionality. Masie from Nature One Dairy stated ‘the ability for our platforms to scale accordingly is a must. We decided to tackle this problem head on, and early.’ Nature One Dairy rolled out SAP Business One and The RIC Group’s WMS seamlessly. The RIC Group’s WMS was selected for its functionality, entry cost, scalable components and its organic integration with SAP Business One. Two years on, The RIC Group’s WMS is still making business life easier for Nature One Dairy. The ability to accurately capture goods coming in against purchase orders, take photos of the condition of goods, issue for production and have this all seamlessly integrated with SAP Business One means the team are able to look at SAP Business One for a single source of truth. Please feel free to contact sales@thericgroup.com for further information on The RIC Group's WMS. Please see the recent article in the Financial Review on Nature One Dairy ramping up growth. Click here for article. Buro Seating have been utilising The RIC Group’s WMS for warehouse management with MYOB EXO for over 4 years and it has been an integral part to promote growth for the business.
Buro Seating is a leading wholesaler of quality ergonomic seating in New Zealand and Australia. With over 20 years experience designing, manufacturing and wholesaling commercial seating, Buro has established a reputation for quality products and service. Buro Seating went to market and wanted to implement and easy to use and cost effective Warehouse Management Solution for MYOB EXO. Since implementation everyone within the business has been very happy with The RIC Group’s WMS solution and it has helped reduce the picking error rate and also streamlined customer service. The solution has been extremely stable and helped with business processes. The great part is that the Warehouse Management Solution is seamlessly integrated with MYOB EXO. Steve from the Buro Seating team, states “The RIC Group provides fantastic support and the warehouse management solution has helped deliver efficiency and streamline our processes”. One of the biggest advantages of The RIC Group is they now offer an advanced, real-time WMS which leverages technology to support personalisation within the warehouse operation. As The RIC Group’s WMS is a best-of-breed WMS it incorporates and supports visibility across the extended supply chain, enabling proactive disruption management and continuous adaptation to change. This ensures The RIC Group’s customers always have an upgrade path for their Warehouse Management Solution allowing their customers to utilise the latest technology and giving their customers security and peace of mind. Best of Breed WMS for Acumatica11/9/2018 Acumatica has released REST as the preferred API method. The new REST API builds on top of the contract-based API, and allows you to access the endpoints and entities configured in Acumatica in a RESTful manner. The RIC Group's Warehouse Management Solution now uses the new REST API for Acumatica and MYOB Advanced. Data in REST calls is typically formatted in JSON, which is very lightweight and easy to generate and parse from Javascript and other new languages and frameworks. Using the preferred API method from Acumatica ensures our WMS is leveraging the latest in technology to be real-time and uses a browser based front end so the users can use any device such as rugged PDA or tablet device. There is no doubt the landscape is changing for ISVs in the marketplace and they have to be prepared to use the latest technology from the Vendor including using the latest API methodology to safeguard your investment  CeMAT 201829/7/2018 The RIC Group participated in CeMAT 2018 on the Cipherlab stand. The exhibition ran for three full days from July 24th to July 26th. We were able to exhibit our Warehouse Management Solution and capabilities to a domestic and international audience. It was a fantastic opportunity to see the latest industry innovations and to exchange ideas and insights on the warehouse of the future.  Our WMS has now been released with its latest feature of receiving for production for SAP Business One users. This allows users now to use the Warehouse Management Solution to capture the receipt for production as soon as the goods come off the production line. As soon as the user captures the quantity they can press complete and it will create the receipt to production within SAP Business One. One of the biggest advantages with using our WMS for capturing each receipt for production there is a date and time stamp. Power BI can then be used to capture important KPI reports such as many pallets off one line has been produced for a day or how many receipt for productions have been captured by a user. Please email our sales team at sales@thericgroup.com for further information.   Chromagen, a pioneer in the production of solar water solutions has a long history of innovation and excellence.
Prior to The RIC Group’s WMS, the growing picking operation was run through a legacy system which relied on a lot manual processes and did not have any integration with SAP Business One. Chromagen continues to grow the business by increasing the volume of work via existing and new customers. The increase work meant finding an alternative to a separate scanning solution without integration to SAP Business One. After looking at the market place, The RIC Group was identified as an industry-respected solution. The RIC Group’s Warehouse Management solution (WMS) is able to track products as they enter the warehouse and scan and automate picking to speed up the overall fulfilment process. A great competitive advantage The RIC Group offered over the other solutions was it was organic with SAP Business One. Allowing Chromagen to use Pick Pack Manager to release Sales Orders, using the bin structure within SAP Business One. All information such as serial numbers captured by the WMS is sent straight into SAP Business One and the delivery document is automatically created. Dov from Chromagen states “One of the key reasons for implementing The RIC Group’s WMS solution was to attain high levels of accuracy. We now have that and it means we know exactly what has been picked and what we have left. We also required some customisations to handle the serialisation complexity and they were able to deliver.” A big plus with the The RIC Group has been their prompt support and willingness to help says Dov. Because of their prompt and timely support Dov said he would always be happy to recommend The RIC Group to any customer who is looking for a WMS. Goods Issue & Goods Receipt6/7/2018 Our Warehouse Management Solution has now been released with the feature of Goods Issue and Goods Receipt for SAP Business One users. With the Inventory Tab the users can now have the features of Stock Adjustments In and Stock Adjustments Out. The flexibility we have added is the ability for the user to select the different General Ledger accounts which are setup in SAP Business One. Once the user completes the Stock Adjustment In or Stock Adjustment Out using the Warehouse Management Solution and press complete it will go and automatically create the Goods Issue or Goods Receipt in SAP Business One. With the functions as well the user can add multiple products to the one Goods Issue or Goods Receipt. They can also select different GL accounts for each product line in the Goods Issue or Goods Receipt.   Transport & Logistics with WMS27/6/2018 The RIC Group's WMS has the feature of Transport & Logistics which adheres to the GS-1 guidelines. This allows our customers to pack pallets into a shipment and consignment for Export orders. Recording and monitoring the movement of logistic units is an essential part of supply chain management. Logistics labels help to track logistic units. Companies often need to label and re-label logistic units at each stop on the way of their destination. Customers will need the ability to print SSCC labels for the pallet which is the recommended logistic label. There are really two pallets which you can have which is the homogeneous pallet and mixed pallet. SSCC is a unique identification of a logistics unit. Value for the lifetime of that unit to only be used for material handling. For a Warehouse Management Solution to handle the requirement of export orders it will need to handle the pick and pack phase. Once the pack phase is completed the WMS will need to capture the container numbers each pallet is being packed into and then capture the Shipment number and also the consignment number. For one shipment there can be multiple containers. Shipment represents the end-to-end delivery of goods between supplier and customer. The Global Shipment Identification Number (GSIN) is a number that identifies a shipment and is assigned by the seller of goods. There is also a GINC standard as well. Our WMS allows the user to pack the pallets into a number of containers. With each container there is a different seal number as well. Contact us for further information at sales@thericgroup.com Here is a link to the GS1 Identification Keys in Transport and Logistics.   |