Customers

Kuehne + Nagel Logistics decided that automating and optimizing order management and stock allocation would improve lead times (by reducing stock-allocation and picking times) and eliminate errors, as requested by Unilever.

Challenge

Kuehne + Nagel Logistics had initially considered implementing this functionality into its existing warehouse management system(WMS), but then decided it was not viable.In late-2008, Kuehne + Nagel Logistics brought in CAPE Groep,a Dutch IT and management consultancy active in the transportand logistics sector, to implement the online, real-time Order Management Portal.

Solution

• The Portal is designed, developed and deployed using: Mendix Business Modeler (design & development); Mendix Business Server (deployment); and Mendix Webclient (portal-type user interface)
• Data exchange between the Portal and the warehouse management systems is handled by the Progress Enterprise Service Bus (a special software device for data transfer)