RangeGate, the mobile wireless supply chain optimisation company, has supplied Anglo Platinum with 34 Symbol PDT 6846 handheld wireless devices and 4131 RF base stations for the optimisation of its on-site facilities and its centralised warehouse and distribution centre.
Anglo Platinum has consolidated and centralised its three distribution centres in the Northern Province into a single operation near Polokwane and through automation maintained next-business-day despatching.
"Anglo Platinum has reduced stock holding at every depot it operates by centralising and automating its operation. A natural by-product of the automation process is also improved accuracy and improved efficiencies," says Mark Lilje, MD of RangeGate.
The Anglo Platinum Group comprises the holding company, Anglo Platinum, and wholly owned subsidiaries Rustenburg Platinum Mines, Potgietersrust Platinums Limited and Lebowa Platinum Mines. It operates six mines, two smelters, a base metals refinery and a precious metals refinery. The entire organisation has been restructured into profit centres in which each business unit and business area is in control of its own activities and is able to optimise the value chain.
Other main areas of focus are the optimisation of the mining and process activities and the introduction of people-oriented ways of working throughout the group.
The wireless warehouse solution forms part of a greater supply chain optimisation project at Anglo Platinum.
RangeGate`s solution links into SAP R/3 through a Telnet manager from Georgio Softworx. SAP R/3 was installed under the direction of supply chain management in conjunction with EDS and MAC Consulting.
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For over 14 years RangeGate, 83.6%-owned by JSE-Securities Exchange-listed DataTec, has focused on leveraging mobile technologies to give its customers a competitive-edge - a Mobile Edge - in their supply chain and service operations. The company helps its customers take advantage of the real-time data capture capability of wireless mobile technologies in order to optimise business processes and accelerate the return on investment from back-end systems. RangeGate`s MOBILE-EDGE solutions provide supply chain execution spanning manufacturing, warehouse control, electronic proof of delivery, in-store fulfilment and field service enablement.
RangeGate is an accredited mobile partner of major IT vendors including Microsoft, Symbol Technologies and SAP. RangeGate`s blue-chip clients include Sainsburys, Scottish Courage, Exel, Daimler-Chrysler and Johnson & Johnson.
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