DHS Wins Lekkerland Tender for Made4net's WMS and TopSystem Pick-by-Voice Technology

Feb. 10, 2009 - PRLog -- (Paramus, New Jersey, and Prague, Czech Republic) - In keeping with Lekkerland’s commitment to maintain European wide high standards,  its leading position in process efficiency and quality, and to provide its customers with a service level of up to 97.5 percent and a delivery availability of up to 99 percent, the distributor chose to engage DHS to kick off the project. The technological enhancement of the Lekkerland warehouses will support the continued high growth in sales and volume in the Czech convenience market.

Outwinning competitive bids, DHS was awarded the contract for the implementation of Made4net’s best-of-breed WMS, WarehouseExpert, and Topsystem Systemhaus‘ pick-by-voice topSPEECH-Lydia product, as well as other related technologies. The leading full distribution supplier for the convenience market, Lekkerland, is looking forward to the complete automation of both its Horni Pocernice (8,600 m2) and Kutna Hora (4,400 m2) central warehouses.

The integration of Made4net’s warehouse management system wtih pick-by-voice technology will allow warehouse workers to communicate with the WMS using wireless headset to receive and confirm instructions by voice back to WarehouseExpert WMS.  This will make it possible to manage huge volumes of data in an almost paperless process chain and to ensure timely deliveries to its customers across the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

The solution is targeted for roll out in early 2009 with Made4net’s WarehouseExpert  implemented by the beginning of Q2/2009. Lekkerland expects a dramatic increase in productivity together with high customer service levels as a result of the upcoming implementation.


About Lekkerland
Lekkerland Czeska Republika s.r.o . belongs to the Lekkerland Group. Lekkerland is the Czech full-service partner for all distribution channels in the convenience sector and delivers a wide assortment with 4.500 SKU of beverages, groceries, fresh and frozen food, pet food, mobile phone prepaid cards and tobacco. Lekkerland Czech distributes its products to 3.400 petrol stations, specialized tobacco shops, catering companies, grocery stores, minimarts and kiosks. Lekkerland’s full delivery service covers the entire territory of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. For details: http://www.lekkerland.cz

About Made4net
Made4net is a leader in delivering real-time solutions for managing and improving Supply chain Execution.  Offering a Best of Breed WMS from small to large warehouses, dynamic routing to optimize the distribution process, and additional complementary solutions such as Yard Management, Loading Optimization, and Delivery management, which provide an end-to-end solution for any logistics oriented organization.  Made4net’s SCExpert™ platform offers a comprehensive yet modular suite of products that may be implemented individually or as a complete end-to-end integrated solution. For details: http://www.made4net.com/solution.php


About D.H.S.
The Czech company D.H.S. - Data, Hardware, Software, spol. s r.o. was established in April 1992. The core business of D.H.S. is focused on complex mobile computer systems solutions for data collection and data transmission in demanding industrial environments, utilities companies, self-governing bodies such as city police, and logistic companies based on bar-code, RFID and wireless technologies. The company strategy is based on the system integration and full-scale deliveries of specific software applications and the hardware along with real-time support. DHS’ extensive experience includes the implementation of numerous projects in the Czech Republic, in Slovakia and a number of foreign countries. DHS key strengths are its experienced team built on a balanced mix of  skilled senior employees and progressive young employees, an orientation of total life-time customer contact from analysis to support, as well as its own SW development and HW service. For details: www.dhs.cz

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Provides supply chain execution software and warehouse management system software to distributors and third-party logistics service providers.

Made4net supplies SCExpert to all size organizations, specializing in mid-sized businesses.