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 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)

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

"PALLETMANAGER has produced significant warehousing and transport savings, coupled with reliable and well presented information – a user friendly system which is now ingrained into our operating procedures”. Procurement, Hallmark Cards.  (read more)

"CARGOMANAGER is proving most beneficial to our logistics operations ensuring we maximise load fill. An excellent package which is easy to use and gives benefits in time, costs and gives a professional image”. Logistics, Glen Dimplex Home Appliances.  (read more)

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

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

More detail on each of the above:

Arden Fine Foods, a UK based SME import quality foods from Europe 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 provides effective numeric and graphical output suitable for use by a wide range of staff". Jon Barlow, Commercial Manager.

Idem Papers (formerly part of Arjo Wiggins) use CARGOMANAGER at several European locations to plan export loads of mixed paper products. “The software can do in 10 minutes what it might take a manual planner a day or more to do".

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.

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 major savings on palletisation and packaging costs. On our Swingball product alone a £25,000 annual saving.

The Irish Dairy Board use CARGOMANAGER to plan consignments of mixed loads. "Where CARGOMANAGER comes into its own is in the preparation of pro-forma invoices for our customers for an exact quantity and value. We can now process an order far quicker. CARGOMANAGER has helped streamline operations and achieve significant reductions in our freight costs."  Export Department.

Hallmark Cards, the UK’s leading greeting card publisher produce around two billion cards per year. They utilise PALLETMANAGER as an integral part of their procurement / packaging design operations, so that they can quickly investigate the impact of product design changes and react to these so as to minimise costs and make best use of warehousing and transport facilities. Significant warehousing and transport savings have resulted, so that now the software is ingrained into their operating procedures. Procurement Manager, Hallmark Cards.

Glen Dimplex Home Appliances use CARGOMANAGER to determine the loading of containers with mixed loads of their cooking and cooling products (brands such as Stoves, Belling, New World and Lec), especially for the Australasian market. As well as ensuring maximum load fill it also assists their credit control department wishing to open letters of credit for exact quantities. “An excellent package, easy to use and providing benefits in time, costs and gives a professional image.” Logistics Manager, GDHA distribution.