19 its new warehouse management system , developed by Manhattan Associates , that is set to overhaul the efficiency of its warehouse operations . “ It ’ s going to significantly improve our distribution and logistics centre capability , enabling efficiencies that will save north of NZ $ 5mn each year ,” enthuses Foord .
“ The new system will have three key benefits for our operations : allowing us to have greater visibility of all of our different departments and tasks in the operation ; enabling dynamic organisation of tasks and orders ; and facilitating decision-making based on real-time information and data , using interweaving capabilities to assign tasks based on the most productive and efficient route .” Foord summarises the effect of these elements in the replacement of restrictive manual tasks with automated technologies . Robotic process automation ( RPA ) has been used to automate a range of manual tasks on the finance side , and machine learning has been deployed to regularly clean the firm ’ s master data to maximise its value for generating insights . “ It ’ s freed up our team to do more
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