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“Our Implementation was as close to painless as it was possible to get. We couldn’t have done it without Socius24.”
– Smart Garden Products
“By upgrading to the latest version of Dispatcher WMS we have been able to fully leverage the power and flexibility of this platform … and ensure we deliver the best possible service in a highly efficient manner.”
– Versteijnen
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Socius24. Warehouse Management Software Solutions
We are extremely pleased that Socius24 is one of a selection of worldwide partners that have won an award in the 2020 Blue Yonder Partner Leader Awards.
All the award winners work hand-in-hand with Blue Yonder and each other to help customers fulfill their their needs and aid the transformation thier business.
Craig Jones, Managing Partner of Socius24 – “We would like to congratulate all the recipients around the world of the 2020 Blue Yonder Partner Leader Awards”.
Blue Yonder Dispatcher Warehouse Management System
Blue Yonder is one of the most recognisable and implemented solutions in the world.
Socius24’s expertise comes from our involvement in the design and development of the original RedPrairie Dispatcher solution, which enables us to fast-track deployment and ensure that our clients use its capabilities to the full. This reduces the cost and risk of deployment, leveraging a broad set of pre-built templates and plug-ins, allowing our customers to quickly gain the functionality they require.
We are extremely pleased to announce that Socius24 has won the 2020 Blue Yonder Partner Leader Award for EMEA Selling Partner of the Year.
This means our customers can be even more confident that they chose Socius24 for their Blue Yonder WMS installation and support, as Socius24 has shown leadership in driving their customers’ businesses forward through increased operational performance.
Craig Jones, Managing Partner of Socius24 – “Our accolade (below) comes at a great time for our business and demonstrates our determination to offer our clients innovation and greater returns on their investment”.
Blue Yonder Dispatcher Warehouse Management System
Blue Yonder is one of the most recognisable and implemented solutions in the world.
Socius24’s expertise comes from our involvement in the design and development of the original RedPrairie Dispatcher solution, which enables us to fast-track deployment and ensure that our clients use its capabilities to the full. This reduces the cost and risk of deployment, leveraging a broad set of pre-built templates and plug-ins, allowing our customers to quickly gain the functionality they require.
The current lockdown and Covid 19 restrictions have presented a whole host of major challenges to many software companies causing them to have to completely restructure their implementation strategies. Or in some worse case situations many just have not been able to start a new project or complete existing commitments.
Not so for Socius24, who are seeing eight years of extensive pro-active work in this area coming to fruition. Since as early as 2013, concerning the remote implementation of the Blue Yonder Dispatcher WMS, Socius24 have been perfecting a mix of remote/on premise delivery project methodologies in increasing geographies around the world. The reasons for moving towards remote delivery of these projects can vary from pure distance – to save on car journeys, accommodation expenses or lost hours getting to site to helping reduce their carbon footprint by removing air miles travelling to another continent, through to it being a more efficient way of working. The net result is keeping the overall project costs down for our customers.
Socius24 achieve this by making use of tools and remote delivery technology that were not previously widely used in project implementations. This is coupled with a clear desire from the customer to embrace this approach. They appreciate Socius24’s flexibility and recognise a successful delivery pedigree in the market. With more than sixty customer installations/upgrades, Socius24 have proved their approach works.
This has put Socius24 in a position of innovators and leaders when it comes to satisfying the current demand for new WMS implementations or upgrades from companies who have experienced such increases in demand that they have exposed the frailties and limitations of their current WMS and their previous services providers. In 2020 Socius24 added more than twenty separate Blue Yonder WMS Licence contracts. These included net new customers, system upgrades and expansion of existing customer sites. If you want to find out how effectively Socius24 can support your business growth or upgrade aspirations through this Pandemic and beyond, contact the team at info@socius24.com
We are extremely pleased to announce that Socius24 have achieved full Blue Yonder Dispatcher WMS Partner accreditation.
This means our customers can be even more confident that they chose Socius24 for their Blue Yonder WMS sales, project delivery and on-going consultancy needs.
Craig Jones, Managing Partner of Socius24 – “Our certification (below) comes at a great time for our growing business and demonstrates our determination to offer current and future clients the best possible sales/services & support when it comes to delivering Blue Yonder solutions and support services.”
Blue Yonder Dispatcher Warehouse Management System
Blue Yonder is one of the most recognisable and implemented solutions in the world.
Socius24’s expertise as a Dispatcher WMS Partner comes from our involvement in the design and development of the original RedPrairie Dispatcher solution, which enables us to fast-track deployment and ensure that our clients use its capabilities to the full. This reduces the cost and risk of deployment, leveraging a broad set of pre-built templates and plug-ins, allowing our customers to quickly gain the functionality they require.
In light of the continuing COVID-19 situation, IntraLogisteX have announced new dates. The event now planned to take place on the 27th and 28th May 2021 at the Ricoh arena, Coventry.
IntraLogisteX is for logistics professionals who are looking for solutions to their current and future challenges, from the latest materials handling technologies to full-scale warehouse automation options. This event is designed for end-user practitioner logistics professionals such as warehouse managers, heads of distribution, IT directors and lead project managers
We look forward to meeting you at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry on 27th and 28th May 2021 and being involved in another great show.
London Tuesday the 3rd of November – Socius24 Ltd are pleased to announce an exclusive Value Added Reseller (VAR) agreement with SySoTech (Pty) Limited for Southern Africa.
SySoTech, a Blue Yonder Dispatcher WMS partner based just outside of Johannesburg, will resell the Socius24 developed User Service Portal (USP) application.
Veronique Read, Director of SySoTech said; “We are very excited to be partnering with Socius24 to bring the USP application to South Africa. We have a strong Dispatcher WMS customer base that we know will benefit from using this feature-rich application”.
Ray Williams, Managing Partner at Socius24 added; “We have developed USP to mobilise and extend the visibility of the Dispatcher solution. USP allows suppliers, clients, customer services colleagues greater access to extended functions and features”.
Williams added; “We believe there is a great synergy between Socius24 and SySoTech and look forward to working with them across Southern Africa”.
For more information or to arrange a USP demo contact:
veronique.read@sysotech.co.za +27 (0) 72 855 2429
For USP information contact:
craig.jones@socius24.com +44 (0)77 67 788 373
Socius24 will be back at Intralogistex for the 6th Year running, on stand 516. IntraLogisteX is completely free and will be packed with everything practitioners need to improve productivity, safety, maximise space and cut costs.
Prior to big event, we answer a few questions which we hope will prove useful for all visitors.
Can you please share a little bit about yourself with our visitors?
Socius24 are Blue Yonder’s (formerly JDA & RedPrairie) trusted premier sales & implementation partners in the UK/EU of the market leading Dispatcher WMS or Blue Yonder (BY) Warehouse Management System and widely regarded in the industry as warehouse management experts with an enviable track record of over 70 implementations since our inception in 2013.
The team at Socius24 has a rich heritage of over 25 years in logistics and warehousing. What this means is that we quickly understand companies’ operations and their specific nuances. By being involved with some of the most advanced logistics operations across the globe we understand what it takes to turn the good, into the exceptional, as our customers regularly testify.
When companies implement one of the two BY WMS solutions either with or without integrated Workforce Labour Management (WLM), Yard Management (YM), Third Party Billing (3PB) and USP, they know they are using the system that world-class businesses from large to small trust to run their warehouse operations and Socius24 helps ensure that logistics and warehouse operators of all sizes outperform their competitors. They do this by enabling them to use WMS technologies they didn’t believe they could afford, in ways that they never expected was possible.
Can you please tell us why you chose to exhibit at IntraLogisteX 2020
Socius24 has been a long time attendee at IntraLogisteX as it provides all that an exhibitor would want from this kind of event. It has become an important annual gathering for all relevant software companies to meet delegates of the right profile who are looking to speak with all the most important suppliers within the logistics and supply chain industry under one roof, thus making the best possible use of their valuable time.
What will you be sharing with visitors at the exhibition?
Blue Yonder (BY) Dispatcher WMS and Socius24 USP. We’re delighted that Blue Yonder have restated their long term commitment to the market leading Dispatcher WMS with plans for an updated user interface with close collaboration with Socius24 who have a long history of selling and implementing WMS with staff dating back to Pre-RedPrairie, where Dispatcher was first developed. To complement Dispatcher WMS, Socius24 have developed their User Service Portal (USP) application which is used in conjunction with WMS to deliver additional performance, functionality and real time business intelligence that reduces the “cost to serve” our warehouse customers and contracts.
What do you feel are the biggest challenges facing the industry at the moment?
The most challenging business environment for generations has meant that the traditional challenges of getting the right stock to the right destination at exactly the right time whilst controlling supply chain operational costs, have been magnified, with many companies fighting for survival. The market leaders are viewing warehouses as strategic assets rather than just storage spaces.
The very best software such as BY Dispatcher WMS optimises every aspect of distribution centre fulfilment processes whilst supplying management with complete real time visibility and control. The result is that costs are tightly controlled and customers kept satisfied which gives the best possible chance of weathering the economic storm over the next 12 – 18 months.
Many companies are realising this and reviewing their incumbent software as a matter of urgency which has resulted in Socius24 getting a very healthy level of new enquiries and existing customer upgrades.
Most systems that Socius24 replace aren’t flexible enough to enable companies to be reactive and agile enough to change and precisely configure their inward and outbound processes to meet the specific needs of their customers. Many companies who implement either Dispatcher or BY WMS need configurable and bespoke processes for each and every individual customer or contract and cannot be restricted by one dimensional software. This is the only way they can start to fulfil internal pressures to reduce their running costs of inventory, labour and transportation. Optimisation and analytics within the WMS are foremost in Blue Yonder’s constant evolution of their solutions.
Who is this event for?
IntraLogisteX is for logistics professionals who are looking for solutions to their current and future challenges, from the latest materials handling technologies to full-scale warehouse automation options. This event is designed for end-user practitioner logistics professionals such as warehouse managers, heads of distribution, IT directors and lead project managers
High Wycombe, UK, 18th of June 2020 – Warehouse Management experts Socius24 are excited about the recent announcement from Blue Yonder that they intend to work closely with Socius24 and their customers to build a forward-looking roadmap for Dispatcher WMS (formerly JDA RedPrairie Dispatcher).
“The Dispatcher WMS has long been recognised as a market leading solution and is being used by over 1,300 sites across the globe to run highly efficient warehousing and logistics operations.” Commented Craig Jones, Managing Partner & Executive Director at Socius24. “This announcement by Blue Yonder is very exciting, it puts to rest any concerns around the future of the product and shows clear intent to not only further enhance Dispatcher but to ensure it retains its market leadership.”
Socius24 have a rich heritage around the Dispatcher WMS, their leadership team not only worked at JDA (Formally RedPrairie), they were fundamental in the design and development of the Dispatcher WMS solution. Since forming Socius24, the team have implemented more than seventy sites, assisted and supported many leading organisations both large and small to maximise the value of this solution.
“We welcome the opportunity to work with Blue Yonder and the customer base in shaping the future of Dispatcher WMS.” Commented Ray Williams, Managing Partner & Executive Director at Socius24. “Not only will this roadmap build on the existing rich functionality of the solution but is set to provide Dispatcher WMS with a new fresh and intuitive user interface which will greatly benefit our existing and future customers.”
Since the formation of Socius24 in early 2013, the company has gone from strength to strength. They are highly regarded as the specialists in warehouse management systems implementations, associated services and have built-up an impressive customer list that includes leading manufacturers, retailers and third-party logistics operators across the world. This announcement not only strengthens their partnership with these organisations but creates the ideal combination of unrivalled expertise and a forward focused, market leading solution.
In light of the continuing COVID-19 outbreak health situation IntraLogisteX had taken the difficult decision to postpone the event, but new dates have just been announced. The event now planned to take place on the 29th to the 30th September 2020.
This decision to postpone the event was not taken lightly, and followed the Government and WHO advice on events.
All existing visitor registrations etc. will remain in place and will transfer to the new dates.
We look forward to meeting you at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry on 29th & 30th September and being involved in another successful show.
