William Say & Co boxes clever with visual load planning tool

Garth Wilkinson, operations director at William Say and Co, says the vision was that pick lists would be used to verify actual quantities picked together with the packaging. These confirmed details would, he says, then be entered into the load planning interface to generate despatch notes, which would then be stored against the Syspro load reference and become visible from within the standard load plan query screens. "K3 Syspro's consulting process was interactive and allowed us to evolve the process as we went along," comments Wilkinson. "Working in a team like this was less prescriptive and more time efficient, enabling us to deliver what would traditionally be viewed as a complicated piece of development in a far shorter space of time," he says. Wilkinson says the firm was impressed from the outset with K3 Syspro's customised load planning software, supports editing, data input and validation." "Information visibility is very important to us and we are looking forward to gaining the benefit from instant access to management data through Syspro. We were delighted that we did not have to go to a developer to find the solution we needed," states Wilkinson. And he adds: "The solution provides a full upgrade path, incorporating any special functionality that we have developed ourselves. It allows us to create our own load planning grid, containing editable, interactive data, and then sends it through to DataSwitch [K3 Syspro's solution for processing data from EDI files or database transactions] for processing while performing all operations within the one single piece of software," he adds. "Although we have not been using the full ERP solution for that long, already we are seeing a big difference in our efficiency. Before we had Syspro with load planning installed, we used to have to do a work-around to plan our deliveries... We can now do everything through the system."