Gower Optimal Algorithms Ltd.

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Gower Optimal Algorithms Ltd staff have been developing IT solutions to palletisation, containerisation and other logistics problems for over 30 years. Below are comments from just a few of our current customers.

"PALLETMANAGER has been an absolute boon to our company and I think it would be an extremely useful tool to any company involved in storage and distribution, either directly or indirectly." Jon Barlow, Commercial Manager, Arden Fine Foods.  (read more)

“PALLETMANAGER is an excellent tool to enable us to maximise our product / pallet to meet the different requirements of customers across the world.” Production Dept, Boxes Prestige UK Ltd. (read more)

"PALLETMANAGER enabled us to save £25,000 / year in distribution costs on just one of our hundreds of product lines." Distribution Department, Mookie Toys. (read more)

"CARGOMANAGER is a vital component in our supply planning of up to 80 trailers / day into the Honda plant in Swindon. Vehicle utilisation has been enhanced and the time taken for planning dramatically reduced." TDG Logistics, Swindon. (read more)

"PALLETMANAGER is a superb product and provides us with an effective and reliable tool in providing companies such as Asda and B&Q with palletisation reports" Logistics, Primeur Ltd.

"PALLETMANAGER ensures that our palletisation formats maximise load efficiency and minimise product damage and environmental impacts." Guinness Dublin and Runcorn. (read more)

"CARGOMANAGER is used to plan loads and check stows of mixed products. It does in 10 minutes what could take a human nearly a day and feeds our work mix and pricing systems". Export Department, Arjo Wiggins. (read more)

"SLIPSHEET MANAGER provides us with a unique and powerful tool to maximise load plans in containers and trailers" Logistics, Primeur.

"CARGOMANAGER has helped streamline our mixed container loadings and the financial saving made by utilising all the available space have helped us increase our average payload and reduce out freight costs". Export Department, Irish Dairy Board. (read more)

“PALLETMANAGER is a superb product and provided us with an effective and reliable tool in providing companies such as Asda and Tesco with palletisation quantities so as to maximise pallet fill and therefore save costs on transport.” Logistics Dept, Euromark Plc. (read more)

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Arden Fine Foods, a UK based quality foods supplier import from Europe (especially Italy and France) and use PALLETMANAGER to produce palletisation specifications for products that they supply to multiples including Tesco, Sainsbury's and Asda. "Not only has it enabled us to make maximal use of warehousing and transportation but in doing so it has provided us with an effective control system to our customers. The software is powerful yet easy to use, and as well as providing effective numeric output also provides powerful and effective graphics suitable for use by a wide range of staff". Jon Barlow, Commercial Manager.

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Arjo Wiggins use CARGOMANAGER at several European locations to plan export loads of mixed paper products. "We use it several times daily for mixed loads to the Middle East which might comprise of anything between 2 and 40 containers / shipment. The software can do in 10 minutes what it might take a manual planner a day or more to do" Export Department, Basingstoke.

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Guinness have for many years used PALLETMANAGER in the design of cans and bottles for their products and in the packaging of these so as to maximise load efficiency, reduce the risk of product damage and in doing so minimising environmental impact. Diageo are naturally keen to ensure that their product arrives in perfect condition for their customers, and PALLETMANAGER ensures product design and stacking plans maximise load fill whilst minimising possible product damage. Reducing vehicle and container movements by maximising load fill also has a very positive environmental impact.

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Boxes Prestige (UK) Ltd are one of Europe’s leading innovators and manufacturers of luxury printed cartons for companies such as Avon, Crabtree & Evelyn, Marks & Spencer, Ted Baker, Thorntons, Tilda and Twinings. The production department use PALLETMANAGER to ensure that designs maximise product / pallet and thus minimise both local and third party storage and distribution costs.

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The Irish Dairy Board use CARGOMANAGER to plan consignments of mixed loads. "Where CARGOMANAGER comes into its own from our point of view is in the preparation of pro-forma invoices for our customers who wish to open Letters of Credit for an exact quantity and value. We can now process more quickly an order from our customers with a list of mixed products and carton sizes. CARGOMANAGER has helped streamline our operations and achieve significant reductions in our freight costs."  Export Department.

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Euromark Plc is a leading supplier of branded child and baby products to major UK and EU outlets. They have for many years used PALLETMANAGER as a key tool in maximising pallet fill, thus reducing storage and transportation costs.

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Mookie Toys produce a wide range of activity toys for the UK and International market place. PALLETMANAGER is used to determine optimal pallet utilisation and produce specifications for companies such as Argos, Woolworth and Tesco. "The software is easy to use and reliable in operation. We currently hold over 2000 product specifications in the system and have made some major savings on palletisation and packaging costs. On our Swingball product alone an annual saving of around £25,000 has been achieved."

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TDG Logistics use CARGOMANAGER to determine the loading of between 60 and 80 trailers / day of metal components into the Honda plant in Swindon. "Data from our weekly operational build plan is downloaded into CARGOMANAGER in order to determine trailer allocations. It has produced savings of up to 20% through improved load utilisation and savings in staff time." Operations Planning Manager, TDG Swindon.

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