Reed Boardall
"The Chess warehouse management system is evolving all the time and it’s a tribute to its flexibility that it keeps pace with our demands and helps us offer our customers the high quality service they have come to expect."
Reed Boardall is a leading independent third party chilled and frozen consolidator with a 92,000 pallet storage facility, and a 160 vehicle distribution fleet.
The Reed Boardall operation has grown from around 6000 to 92,000 pallets in ten years, with the Chess system being continually developed to meet additional business requirements. From an initial standard WMS, the solution now includes extensive EDI, real time movement control with truck mounted radio terminals and an integrated transport planning system.
More recently, voice activated picking and on board telematics for load tracking have been integrated with the Chess system. The entire solution is supported by fail-safe fault tolerant software and hardware systems, reflecting the criticality of the system to the business.
