Case Studies

Roberts Bakery Keeping the Bread Rolling
 

Roberts Bakery Keeping the Bread Rolling
Roberts Bakery, one of the UK’s oldest family run bakeries, has been baking fresh sliced bread since 1887 in the market town of Northwich, Cheshire. [More]

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CLASS Modelling Ensures £30 million Hub Performs Perfectly from Day One
 

CLASS Modelling Ensures £30 million Hub Performs Perfectly from Day One
Palletforce is the leading organisation in palletised freight distribution within the UK and Europe with nearly 100 depots located around the country serviced by a central hub. [More]

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Class Delivers Multi-Benefits in FMCG Sector
 

Class Delivers Multi-Benefits in FMCG Sector
Cirrus Logistics has recently worked with a leading UK grocery retailer using CLASS simulation and modelling technology to assess options for improvement in warehouse productivity. [More]

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Simulating Solutions for Optimum Throughput
 

Simulating Solutions for Optimum Throughput
A well-known manufacturer of cake products invited Cirrus Logistics to examine the issues associated with a recently installed automated facility designed to increase picking efficiency. [More]

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New Warehouse Design and Validation
 

New Warehouse Design and Validation
Howdens Joinery, the UK's leading kitchen, bedroom and bathroom furniture supplier, used CLASS to validate the design for a new NDC in terms of potential throughput and MHE requirement. [More]

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Managing Change With Class
 

Managing Change With Class
Part of the Glen Dimplex Group, Morphy Richards is today one of the best-known brands in the UK domestic appliance market. [More]

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Class Gives Unique Insight Into Site Traffic Capacity
 

Class Gives Unique Insight Into Site Traffic Capacity
When Exel was recently discussing a new logistics contract with a well-known UK retailer, the decision was made to base the operation at one of Exel's composite sites. [More]

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A Global Solution
 

A Global Solution
Exel, one of the world's leading supply chain management companies, was the first 3PL to sign up for a global CLASS licence. [More]

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Assessing Supply Chain Options in a Virtual Environment
 

Assessing Supply Chain Options in a Virtual Environment
In re-developing one of its sites, Sainsbury's used CLASS to test the capacity to cope with projected throughput, assess the proposed automated facility, determine optimum flow-through to dispatch and analyse inbound and outbound vehicle movements. [More]

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Resourcing The Warehouse With Class
 

Resourcing The Warehouse With Class
Since the successful commissioning of the Leeds site, Carlsberg UK has extended its use of CLASS across the entire retail network of 14 warehousing centres and has begun the process of 'What if?' modelling to test alternative methods of operation as well as to optimise resource levels at each depot. [More]

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Design Time Halved
 

Design Time Halved
After extensive research into the available software technologies specialising in the design and assessment of complex operations, Linfox, the Asia Pacific's largest privately owned supply chain solutions provider, acquired CLASS. [More]

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Meaningful In-Sites
 

Meaningful In-Sites
When Palletforce recently put in place a five-year strategy encompassing a number of options for site development, it recognised the need to fully analyse these options before investment. [More]

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CLASS Provides Winning Cross-Dock Plan
 

CLASS Provides Winning Cross-Dock Plan
TDG, a long-standing user of CLASS, was helped to renew a major contract with a food retailer when it used the tool’s latest generation of cross-dock logic to provide the information and evidence to support its tender. [More]

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Warehouse Solution Design Provides Rapid Verification of Investment Proposal
 

Warehouse Solution Design Provides Rapid Verification of Investment Proposal
The expertise and independence of Cirrus' consulting team, together with the power of CLASS and other analytical tools, recently enabled PZ Cussons to make the case for a major new warehouse investment, ensuring also that substantial projected volume growth, as well as numerous operational complexities, were factored into the warehouse design before commissioning. [More]

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A Model for Warehouse Efficiency Worldwide
 

A Model for Warehouse Efficiency Worldwide
Belron, the world's largest vehicle glass repair and replacement company, worked with Cirrus, undertaking our unique Warehouse Solution Design process to establish an approach to warehouse design that could be replicated around the world. [More]

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Improving Speed to Market
 

Improving Speed to Market
Allied Bakeries recently decided to model all its warehouses in order to investigate the potential to create service level improvements and explore operational issues that had defied conventional analysis. [More]

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Increasing Capacity in Existing Warehouses
 

Increasing Capacity in Existing Warehouses
When ASDA wanted to drive more capacity across its warehouse network, the company used CLASS to test its theories for performance improvement as well as to try out other, more "out of the box" concepts. [More]

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