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CONSUME, CONSOLIDATE, OPTIMISE: CONTINUOUS DC IMPROVEMENT Donald Hastie, Group CEO of BlueSky Creations, explains the company’s new Optimize solution, and how it harnesses integrated data to drive constant improvement in distribution centres.
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lueSky Creations started out four years ago with the ambition of providing companies with complete solutions aimed at automation and optimisation – bringing to bear the best in data analysis, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. While BlueSky’s solutions cover many areas – including solutions aimed at management of international rugby teams – the company has recently launched its Optimize solution with an eye to precisely address the challenges and opportunities of modern distribution centres.
What Optimize does, says Donald Hastie, Group CEO of BlueSky Creations, is bring all the separate components of DC management – from labour management, to tracking incoming and outgoing units, and more – under one module such that data can be interlinked, understood, and acted upon in a comprehensive manner. “But we also appreciate that many organisations already have discrete solutions for different components,” Donald says. “So, we don’t want them to lose the benefits of Optimize just because they don’t wish to replace
one component – if they don’t want to replace their current time and attendance solution, for example. And that’s why we knew we had to build a very strong API integration model that can seamlessly gel with the solutions already in place. “Completeness is critical, as is the ability to integrate. The secret sauce comes in where we apply the very latest mathematics, with IBM solvers, to concurrently view data and view multiple constraints at the same time to make better decisions.” Donald says that for those wanting
With Optimize users can now see exact costs – per task, per individual.
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