mobilewarehouse Enhances Customer Service for Felixstowe Warehouse

Published 28th July 2010

Oxon, UK: 27 July, 2010: Codegate’s mobilewarehouse software is enabling Felixstowe Warehousing to meet the requirements of its blue chip customers by delivering accurate tracking of goods into, within and out of its warehouse. Running on Motorola MC3000 mobile computers, mobilewarehouse transfers customer order and supplier shipment data from Felixstowe Warehousing’s back office system, directly to the hands of its warehouse operatives.

“To help us secure a major contract and to enable us to expand our range of services to a wider customer base, we needed to deploy a fully integrated barcoding solution covering goods received, location, stock checking and despatch,” explained Stuart Gosling, Director, Felixstowe Warehousing, part of the John Good Shipping group of companies, specialising in providing sustainable international freight handling solutions.

Having already realised that its existing conventional paper based warehouse management system could not deliver up to date information on stock and despatch, Felixstowe Warehousing was in the process of carrying out market research around mobile data solutions that would enable it to deliver this type of enhanced service to its key contract customers.

Codegate was chosen from a shortlist of three, following a presentation and showcase of its mobilewarehouse software solution.

“The mobilewarehouse showcase was a critical factor in our decision to go with Codegate. We have our own warehouse management (WM) system and integration of the barcoding solution with our SQL database was of prime concern,” added Trevor Manville, IT Manager for Felixstowe Warehousing. “This integration would deliver accurate real-time updates concerning all aspects of stock control which was paramount to the success of our implementation. The mobilewarehouse showcase demonstrated that the necessary levels of integration were achievable.”

mobilewarehouse, based on Codegate’s core enterprise mobility software, is designed to interface with legacy management systems and data stores which enables organisations to leverage their previous investments. mobilewarehouse enables barcode information scanned by a mobile device to be transferred in real-time from aisle and shelf locations to an organisation’s back office system.

Codegate worked closely with Felixstowe Warehousing as to the choice of mobile computers to be operated by warehouse personnel. Motorola’s MC3000 rugged mobile device was selected as it would withstand the rigours of a warehouse environment and with a three year fully inclusive maintenance contract, delivered a cost effective hardware solution.

“Codegate’s one-stop-shop capability in that it could deliver an integrated hardware, software and wireless network infrastructure, was another key differentiator for us. Codegate’s ethos is one of ‘can do’ and we have always felt comfortable that it would deliver the solution we needed to meet the demands of our customers,” continued Manville.

Felixstowe Warehousing is now looking to roll out Codegate’s solution across its food grade storage business. “The capability of mobilewarehouse will be invaluable in handling the complex issues surrounding this type of cargo storage,” concluded Gosling.

About Felixstowe Warehousing
Felixstowe Warehousing, part of the John Good Shipping group of companies, specialises in providing sustainable, international freight handling solutions. It handles deliveries by sea from worldwide points of origin to destinations throughout the UK and mainland Europe. Felixstowe Warehousing operates as a port-centric warehouse at the UK port of Felixstowe to achieve savings in freight costs, and their environmental impact, for our customers and the wider community.


Felixstowe Warehousing customers can choose from a menu of handling, storage, IT and delivery solutions for reliable, secure and cost effective distribution of their products to final destinations in UK, mainland Europe and global markets. It has a highly experienced workforce which offers a dedicated and versatile service in purpose-designed warehouse facilities.
For more information please visit: www.felixstowewarehousing.co.uk/internationalfreightwarehousing.html

About Codegate
Codegate specialises in the provision of robust mobile enterprise solutions that deliver a rapid return on investment through improved productivity, traceability and customer service levels. The company's solutions are used by transport and logistics, distribution, warehousing, retail and field service companies ranging in size from small to medium sized enterprises through to much larger blue chip organisations. Codegate's solutions include mobilevantage – a mobile workforce management solution for small businesses with around 50 mobile workers, mobilecourier - a highly configurable shrinkwrapped proof of delivery solution, mobilelogistics - a dynamic track and trace solution for transport and logistics companies and mobileworker - a real time job scheduling solution designed to optimise the mobile workforce for the medium to large enterprise. Codegate has partnerships with leading rugged mobile hardware providers including Intermec, Honeywell, Motorola, Psion Teklogix and Zebra. For further information please visit: www.codegate.co.uk

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