Denholm’s picking no problem with LocateIT WMS
Founded as J & J Denholm in 1866, Denholm Shipping Services is one of the UK’s leading ship agency businesses providing a range of related services including freight forwarding, storage and distribution. Still owned by the descendants of the founder who have built the business by consistently reinvesting profits, Denholm’s aim is to become a market leader in each of the fields within which it operates.
In a multi site situation part of Denholm’s activities involves the storage of timber, steel, chemicals and gas. Their operations include unit and order picking, batch, lot and serial number control both simple and complex.
Denholm Handling provides a full range of warehousing and distribution services including fulfilling specialist requirements such as bagging and blending, pick and pack, quayside handling and inventory management. Operating from sites in Kirkby, Birkenhead, Tilbury, and Avonmouth they have earned a reputation for efficiency, flexibility and quality of service.
In order to maintain that quality Denholm knew that they should strive to add value to the service levels they could offer their customers. In the words of Denholm’s Martin Hall:-
“We felt that a WMS system would allow us to supply our customers with all the stock information
they require as well as providing us with information to ensure that all warehouse locations were
fully utilised. Since the implementation of LocateIT our service levels have increased dramatically
and we can now deal with blue chip companies because of our systems’ strength”
Denholm were an early adopter of hand held mobile processes in the warehouse with a comprehensive set of RF (Radio frequency) processes covering all aspects of warehousing from Goods In and Put Away to Picking and Despatch with all functions in between.
Martin assures us that the warehouse efficiency was improved by over 25% virtually immediately due to the ease of use and immediate adoption of the processes by the warehouse staff. Of course, they look forward to upgrading to the new improved version as this will bring even further
functionality and flexibility to their operation.
Denholm look forward to further expanding their warehousing operation into the future building further on the strong foundations of close partnership that has built up over the years with both clients and Clydebuilt.
