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Business Integration & EDI
- Kewill drinks up Heinken deal
Logistics Manager reported on the successful conclusion of a project by Kewill to replace Heineken UK's EDI infrastructure and take over management of EDI for the brewer on a fully outsourced basis.
Read the full article at LogisticsManager.com - Mothercare boosts order management
Retail Week reported on Mothercare's use of the Kewill Trade order management system to support its international expansion plans.
Read the full article on Retail Week's website - Global solution
Kewill's Rob Smith wrote: "Companies have been told to think globally and act locally for many years now, but the true impact of this strategy has really only taken effect in the last ten years. By sourcing goods from overseas, chiefly Asia, in order to compete on price, retailers have also had to be responsive to customer demands for quality, rapid fulfilment, local sourcing, traceability and returns.Balancing these global and local demands is not easy and can add to, rather than remove, costs making it a particularly sensitive issue in today’s economic climate."
Read the full article on European Supply Chain Management - Who's counting?
No retailer can afford increasing wastage as they battle to survive this recession (September 2009). JD Williams' direct dispatch manager David Schofield commented on the benefits realised by the company's implementation of Kewill Trade.
Read the full article on - Retail Week - Kookai selects Kewill to enable electronic trading
The UK operation of fashion chain Kookai has selected Kewill to supply and implement Kewill's MessageBroker Lite service to improve its reporting of business critical data.
Read the full article on - The Retail Bulletin - JD Williams takes control of its supply chain
Direct home shopping company JD Williams installed a Kewill order management system to help boost its direct dispatch business to its two million customers.
Read the full article at LogisticsManager.com - Technology - The rise of the broker platform
Rachel Gordon explores the ever-advancing world of broker technology to discover the advantages that it has brought and the prospects that it offers the industry and its clients alike
Read the full article at Professional Broking - Scotts to speed up its order processing
Catalogue specialist Scotts & Co is to implement an order-processing system from Kewill to support its direct dispatch business model.
Read the full article at - Retail Week - NEC Europe ramps up communications for global competetiveness
Using Kewill, NEC Europe’s 3,000 users in 19 operating companies can now manage purchase orders, invoices and despatch notes to their many suppliers, to the tune of thousands of orders per day.
Read the full article at - IT Backbones - Nisa-Today’s sources locally with e-trading
The high-street grocer has deployed new electronic trading software and services to support its local sourcing initiatives.
Read the full article at ITPRO - Nisa-Today's to use web tool for local sourcing
Created by Kewill, the Web Forms system will allow smaller local suppliers to communicate with the symbol retailer using the internet without having to invest in special systems.
Read the full article at - Retail Week - Nisa-Today's enables local sourcing with electronic trading from Kewill
Nisa-Today's, the UK's leading member-owned organisation, providing benefits to independent retailers and wholesalers in food and drink markets, has selected Kewill, a leading provider of global solutions for the dynamic supply network, to deliver software and services that will support Nisa-Today’s local sourcing initiatives.
Read the full article at IT Backbones - Kewill driving efficiency gains for RAC Auto Windscreens
A further example of work being undertaken to gain improvements through electronic messaging comes with the news that Kewill is providing RAC Auto Windscreens with a new, streamlined electronic communication platform. It will involve use of Kewill’s fully hosted managed solution, InsuranceXchange (KIX).
Read the full article from - Broker's Monthly - MID winning the war against the uninsured motorist
It remains a sad fact of life these days that the honest and law abiding citizen not only has to fund their own life style, but also those who do not believe in, nor have any desire to follow such principles.
Read the full article from - Brokers Monthly - Consumers in the driving seat
Focus on supply chain management is crucial in controlling rising claims costs and keeping customers happy and, as Ana Paula Nacif writes, new technological solutions can also make the process more productive
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Parcel Shipping Management
- Surviving the Nightmare - Turning shipping exceptions into opportunities. Read the full article from Parcel magazine
- Recession Leads to Widespread Adoption of Lower Cost Shipping Options. Read the full article from Logistics Today.
- 96% of companies have made changes to shipping processes due to the economy.
Nearly all respondents to a new poll say they have made changes to the way they ship goods because of the economic downturn. Among the changes are cutting staff, switching to less expensive providers and altering their carrier mix. Read the full article from Internet Retailer magazine. - Logistics News: Time to Start Looking at Regional Parcel Cariers?
Saving and Service Improvements often Possible, Experts Says, but
Opportunities Often Depend on Your Network; Lack of Awareness Perhaps
Biggest Barrier. Read the full article from Supply Chain Digest - The Customer is King
Even in a tough economy, retailers find more ways to deliver speed and service in shipping
Online sales are growing at Dick Blick Art Materials, even though the art supplies market has been stagnant to slightly shrinking. Find out the reasons for Dick Blick's success in this article from Internet Retailer magazine. - Navigating Dim Weight Charges
These tips can help you reduce cost and complexity
The process of shipping and managing your freight expenses is becoming more dependent on the size of your freight and the space it occupies than ever before. Many carriers are, in essence, selling space on their vehicles. All air freight and most ground freight on major carriers now require declared dimensions for correct manifesting.
Read the full article from Parcel web site - A look at shipping processing systems
Industry roundup of multi-carrier shipping solutions
Read the full article from Multi-Channel Merchant - Some slipping on shipping - With fuel prices rising, retailers struggle to keep shipping fees steady.
Two things are clear: online retailers are paying more to ship goods to consumers, and many shoppers want to pay little or nothing for shipping. So what's an online retailer to do?
Find out in the article from Internet Retailer - UPS Ready solution simplifies florist's shipping arrangement. Kewill Flagship connects Calyx & Corolla's growers to customers, via UPS.
The decision by Rick Coon, application integration manager at Vermont Teddy Bear to implement Kewill Flagship, a UPS Ready shipping solution enabled online florist Calyx & Corolla to manage its flower-suppliers with ease.
Read the full article from UPS Compass. - Kewill and Oracle Enter Into Marketing Agreement
As part of this marketing agreement, Kewill and Oracle will collaborate on an integration of Kewill Flagship - Kewill's Web-based multi-carrier shipping management application with an emphasis on parcel shipping - for existing and future Oracle Transportation Management customers.
Read the full article from Logistics Management - Customers Helping Customers Helping Customers
With continuing increases in governmental regulations regarding the movement of freight, it is difficult to imagine being able to conduct a vigorous trade program without the use of technology and solutions that help keep abreast of current regulations.
Read the full article from - Outsourced Logistics - Educate the Shipper, or fix the software?
A new look at accessorial fees, by Peter Stavarski
Lately, I’ve been spending a significant amount of time with larger shippers (>1K/packages per day) helping to define business rules, routing guides and taking as much of the guess work out of shipping as possible. In most of these large implementations, the shipping component is a black box that doesn’t require any real-time human interaction once it’s in production.
Read the full article at - Parcel Shipping & Distribution - DHL cutbacks signal changes for online retailers
The cutbacks announced this week by delivery service DHL will force online retailers to update their shipping software and likely will mean changes in shipping labels, say executives at shipping software vendor Kewill Americas. And larger e-retailers that ship in bulk directly to DHL hubs may have to revise their operations, they say.
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- Gaining a competitive edge with fulfillment
As online sales become a larger part of their business, retailers are looking for new ways to automate their fulfillment systems to reduce operating costs without increasing delivery times, have more control over their carrier network, and provide greater visibility into the fulfillment process to enhance the shopping experience. - Five ways to cut time and costs out of getting orders to customers
With a design for a new sophisticated warehouse and the company’s reputation for service on the line, Zappos.com Inc. vice president of fulfillment Craig Adkins wasn’t satisfied. A product fetched from the farthest point in the warehouse under the new design took about 35 minutes to get to a packing station, and that would make it impossible for Zappos, a web-only retailer, to meet its promise of fast service. - Internet-Based Logistics Helps Business To Grow
Vermont Teddy Bear installed a shipping management solution to
provide a single interface for 20 suppliers to access orders and process
shipments.....
Read the full article at Integrated Solutions for Retailers - Kewill connects the world
In the logistics industry, managing shipments as complex as any film scene dreamed up by DeMille requires the same level of communication, especially in a world where the logistics “crew” is spread out across the entire globe. Logistics software giant Kewill Systems has introduced a major new component, Kewill Forwarding, to its global trade management suite that addresses just that problem.
Read the full article at American Shipper - Ship Shape - Retailers sift through shipping puzzles to optimize delivery costs and service
With some 4 million packages shipped yearly, online, TV and direct-mail mass merchant ShopNBC routinely chooses from an endless number of shipping options to keep inventory turning, fulfillment costs at a minimum and customers satisfied. “We’re always striving to balance shipping speed with cost efficiency,” says Michael Murray, vice president of operations.
Read the full article at Internet Retailer - As foreign markets beckon, e-retailers search for smoother international shipping
For Anthropologie, a multi-channel retailer of women’s apparel fashions and accessories, the prospect of strong overseas sales is hard to ignore. Without even marketing outside the U.S., it receives orders from Europe and other markets, where the currently low value of the U.S. dollar makes its stylish skirts and jewelry bargains. And in Asia, its fashions are so popular local sellers mimic Anthropologie’s branded web presence without permission to re-sell its private label products. ...
Read the full article at Internet Retailer - Visibility Makes Service More than Bearable
Seeing and understanding shipments within the supply chain means happier customers and fatter bottom lines. Getting their arms around the flower delivery business is easier for Vermont Teddy Bear as it applies sophisticated technology to delivery processes. The solution not only provides the Shelburne, VT company with vision into final customer delivery, it simplifies ordering from growers in a highly competitive market.
Read the full article at Logistics Today - 'Unraveling the Mystery' of Transportation Management
In the last three years, transportation costs have gone up 23% and order-to-delivery cycle times have decreased by 31%, according to a GMA 2005 Logistics Survey. These trends and higher expectations from customers are placing increased pressure on companies to better manage their transportation operations. It is no wonder, then, that the Transportation Management Systems (TMS) market grew to nearly $990 million in 2005, according to a forecast by ARC Advisory Group, and more and more companies are looking to technology to help them minimise transportation costs and improve order-to-delivery cycle times for increased customer satisfaction. To understand this growing trend, this article looks at the basics.
Read the full article at Parcel Magazine
Global Trade & Logistics
- Importers' requests to software vendors provide window on 10+2 compliance.
For an idea of how 10+2 compliance has been going, you only have to look at the requests importers are making of their trade management software vendors. Read the full article from DC Velocity - Kewill expands CustomsXchange network
Logistics Manager reported Kewill's announcement of a number of new country customs partners to expand the reach of its CustomsXchange multi-country customs compliance solution.
Read the full article at LogisticsManager.com. - Help with new customs requirements
International Freighting Weekly reported that Kewill and e-customs are working together to address confusion over the new EMCS regulation in the UK.
Read the full article at IFW's website. - Recession hits high-tech spending
International Freighting Weekly featured research by Kewill and Transport Intelligence into the effects of the recession on IT spending and implementation.
Read the full article from IFW. - Are you saasy enough?
In an article exploring post-recession take-up of software as a service technology, Jacquie Boast, chief operating officer at Kewill, put forward Kewill's view that the overriding requirement in the current climate is flexibility:
"We have found that now more than ever customers are demanding solutions that allow them to respond quickly to changes in market conditions and are upgrading heritage solutions for more functionally rich and flexible applications that enable them to gain more control and visibility over the elements and connectivity of their supply chain.".
Read the full article from Logistics Manager. - Raben Group successfully implements Kewill's Transport Management Software
To be able to continue to provide its customers with best of breed logistics services and to support the company's expansion, Raben - a leading European provider of services including full logistics, warehousing, international and national distribution, full logistics services for fresh produce, forwarding services and air and sea freight -chose Kewill to develop an integrated transport management system which has been implemented across all its business units.
Read the full article from The Manufacturer. - A tool for (less) risky business
Technology Review - Global Trade Management Software
It's best known as a tool for automating regulatory compliance and documentation. But global trade management software can also help you reduce your exposure to all sorts of suply chain risks. Read the full article from DC Velocity. - Get Help in Meeting New Import Regulations
To comply with the new rules for imports - called 10+2 for the number of data elements required - companies are already adapting. Gaining increased supply chain visibility is a benefit of the process. A number of suppliers of solutions stand ready to provide insight and assistance in helping meet the new requirements. For example, Kewill offers among other aids, a whitepaper, Customs Brokers at the Helm of 10+2, which provides an overall perspective on the ruling as well as discussing the provider's solution.
Read the full article from Outsourced Logistics. - Norfolkline selects Kewill to step up transport efficiency
Norfolkline, part of the A.P. Moller-Maersk Group and one of Europe’s leading door-to-door transportation service providers, has chosen Kewill (KWL), a leading provider of software and solutions to simplify global trade and logistics.
Read the full article on - Logistics Business IT - From Asia to the World
Leaving the security of a 9-to-5 job and striking out on his own proved to be the right decision for WONG SING LAM, Managing Director, Kewill-IPACS. He tells his story to Bob Gill.
Read the full article from Logistics Insight Asia - Gondrand Group goes for integrated freight
Gondrand Group, a leading transport and logistics company with a global footprint, has selected Kewill, provider of global solutions for the dynamic supply network, to supply an integrated freight forwarding solution to support the group's strategic goal to become the premium global logistics provider.
Read the full article at Supply Chain Standard - 10 Tips Step-By-Step Solutions
Selecting Global Trade Management Software
Looking for guidance on selecting a flexible global trade management software (GTM) package that easily integrates into your supply chain strategy? Here's some advice from Brian Hodgson, vice president of marketing and business development for Kewill Americas, Marlborough, Mass.
Read the full article from Inbound Logistics - Survey: Companies Passing the Buck on 'Green' Logistics Costs
Research by Transport Intelligence and Kewill (KWL) suggests that most companies seeking to make their logistics operations more environmentally friendly want someone else to cover the costs.
Read the full article at Logistics Insight Asia - Alan Cross Joins Kewill
Kewill has appointed Alan Cross as vice president of professional services – Europe, further expanding its Global Trade Management team in the region.
Read the full article at Logistics Manager - Going Green: who pays?
Apparently, going green is all very desirable – but only if someone else is paying for it. A survey conducted by Transport Intelligence and sponsored by IT supplier Kewill found that three quarters of companies awarding logistics contracts included sections on environmental compliance.
Read the full article at Supply Chain Standard
Read the full article at Logistics Insight Asia - Kewill Launches Global Forwarding Solution
Supply chain software vendor, Kewill Systems, is launching a global end-to-end freight forwarding solution claimed by the company to improve the visibility and control of goods through global supply chains in order to minimise transaction costs and shrink delivery schedules.
Read the full article at Supply Chain Standard - Logistics technology: Kewill rolls out new forwarding and customs applications
Supply chain technology vendor Kewill recently announced it has rolled out new features to its Global Trade Management portfolio: Kewill Forwarding, a global end-to-end freight forwarding application, and Kewill Customs, a Customs House brokerage application designed for the United States—and also be integrated into Kewill Forwarding.
Read the full article from Logistics Management - Fixing the weakest link in the retail chain
Evan Puzey comments on the new technologies available to companies enabling them to smooth the global delivery process.
Read the full article at the Financial Times Website (UK) - ViewPoint - China Next Door
Trading with China has been going on for centuries, but the realities of today's global economy result in China not only being next door but also knocking on your door.
Read the full article from Industry Week - Manufacturing companies in Singapore have achieved considerable cost savings by using technology in their supply chain.
Since 2004, the Infocomm Development Authority has spearheaded 10 electronic supply chain projects to help reduce costs in areas like procurement, logistics and payments. Savings in the first year alone amounted to some S$41 million.
Read the full article at Channel News Asia -
Teaming up for Better Solutions
Today's customers of logistics service providers demand a lot. They want an end-to-end and door-to-door supply chain service completed in the shortest possible time at low costs, with real time visibility of the tracking and tracing status throughout their shipments.
Read the full article at Logistics Digest Asia
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