Belgravium Technologies White Papers

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2012 White Papers

Key Strategies For Deploying Enterprise Mobility Applications
Explore this topic to decide which applications to prioritise for mobilisation, what architecture you need in place to support your applications strategy, how to make sure the benefits outweigh the costs in your implementation, 5 key principles underlying application mobilisation success, and a step-by-step guide for CIOs on how and where to mobilise applications in their enterprise.



2011 White Papers

Mobile Application Development: The fundamentals of Architecture & Platforms
This link will take you to a video 'webinar' presentation by Michael King, Research Director for the Gartner organisation. The presentation covers conflicting mobile priorities, mobile architecture styles, mobile application tools & other key areas of current debate.

Picking Winners
A Paper that contrasts the performance of three common picking technologies, namely; voice recognitiopn versus standard RF versus pick-to-light.
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RFID
In this paper we present the views of critics and advocates who maintain that RFID is robust and, in skilled hands, can deliver highly tangible cost benefits and vital improvements in critical closed loop situations.

Pick to Light
Pick-by-light is an oft ignored technology but extremely effective in certain picking environments. This Paper provides a simple overview of the technology and provides a simple overview of the technology and provides a case study to back up its assertions.

The New World of Planning
Discover the value of innovations in resource planning. An article by Ronald Buijsse and Goos Kant of award winning Dutch organisation Ortec ( an authorised partner of TouchStar Technologies ). Subject areas include What is planning? Why and when to plan? Plan for Success Model. What is new in the New World of Planning?

Rationalising Fuel Distribution Processes
Some 40% of delivery cost is made up of vehicle costs, while approx 40% of vehicle costs is expended on fuel. So for every 10% rise in fuel costs an additional 1.6% is additionally added to the cost of fuel at the pump. This paper, by TouchStar business consultant Peter Lombardelli, examines how strategic planning and operational initiatives at both refinery and depot level can yield significant cost savings.

Five Ways to Reduce Fuel Consumption Using GPS Tracking
This article was originally published on the 'Discrete Wireless' web site. It is an excellent feature that offers examples of how system implementation can directly impact upon fleet running costs. For example, moving from a traditional dispatcher process to an automated GPS-driven fleet tracking and management solution can increase productivity by 25% or more.

Joined Up Thinking - Integrating Information Across The Enterprise
A thought-provoking article by Sage on the advantages, and potential pitfalls, of adopting cohesive system integrations approach. Companies are increasingly being forced to look at how they can increase the value they provide by tailoring their offer to customers? individual needs whether that is through customising the company?s core product or adapting a range of supporting services (e.g. billing, shipping, customer support etc). Such an approach not only serves to provide a basis for short term differentiation, it also has longer term strategic benefits.



2010 White Papers

Optimising Supply Chain Communications

Can You Contain Yourself
How IT can help manage and control the broadening array of responsibilities placed on operations managers.

The CRC Commitment
Examining the nature and effect of the Governments Green Agenda on the Logisitics Industry

Reading the Runes
Presenting the upcoming trends and challenges that will affect the logistics market landscape in 2011/ 2012

The Lean Machine
A simple explanation of LEAN technology, the factors that cause automation programmes to fail, and the implications for the business.

Look Who's Talking
How information technology can help logistics organisations meet increasingly tighter service levels demanded by customers