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A Message from Lord Pickles and Lord Blunkett, followed by Anisa's best practice article

The ability to listen and learn from one another has always been vital in parliament, in business and in most aspects of daily life. But at this particular moment in time, as national and global events continue to reiterate, it is uncommonly crucial that we forge new channels of communication and reinforce existing ones. The following article from Anisa is an attempt to do just that. We would welcome your thoughts on this or any other Parliamentary Review article.

Rt Hon The Lord David Blunkett

Rt Hon The Lord Eric Pickles

www.anisagroup.com

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Anisa provides managed services

from their own data centres

CALIDUS

systems provide a solution

for the whole supply chain

Anisa provides end-to-end supply chain IT solutions.

Through two market-facing companies, In2grate Business

Solutions and OBS Logistics, they provide the combination

of industry-leading enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems

and best-in-class logistics software to deliver solutions across a

broad spectrum of industries. Although they are now part of the

Sanderson Group, Anisa’s business dates back over 40 years. Since

then, they have provided on-site solutions, software, project

services and ongoing support, working on their clients’ in-house

hardware. CEO Dave Renshaw here explains, however, the shift

the company has seen over the past ten years.

We do still offer on-premise solutions, but an increasing amount of our business

now takes a managed service approach whereby we supply our software and

services based on our hardware in our ISO 27001-accredited data centres. Our

clients like to outsource the day-to-day functions of their systems to us, so that

they can focus instead on running their business. They particularly appreciate that

we provide the whole solution, with our people designing and implementing the

system, before following up with continued support and oversight of the hardware

and infrastructure.

Tailored for clients’ growth

Many of our clients have growing businesses, whether this growth is organic,

through mergers and acquisitions or both. With our managed services approach,

FACTS ABOUT

ANISA

»CEO: Dave Renshaw

»Business dates back 40 years

»Based in London, Liverpool,

Birmingham, Singapore and

Australia

»Services: End-to-end IT

solutions for transport,

warehousing and other

industry sectors

»Now part of the Sanderson

Group of companies, which

has circa 800 customers and

employs over 300 staff

»Systems installed in over 60

countries

»Two ISO 27001 accredited

data centres support a

growing global managed

services business

»www.anisagroup.com

Anisa

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they can expand their systems at short

notice with predictable costs; we let

clients know, in advance, what costs

are associated with specific changes

in scale. We find this particularly

important in the third-party logistics

(3PL) sector; when companies win new

contracts to, for instance, operate a

customer’s warehousing or transport

operation, they can anticipate the IT

costs entailed at their end. We can

provide a system of the required scale

that can be promptly activated when

the contract starts.

Clients’ work with us is made

exceptionally cost-effective through our

solution as a service model. Companies

who use our services pay for the solution

over a contracted period, allowing them

to pay it off as it delivers benefits and

drives efficiencies; this helps to avoid

upfront capital outlay which can then

be refocused on other priorities.

Our work with Moran Logistics

The scalability benefit provided by our

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managed service offering has

certainly proven to be beneficial for one

of the fastest-growing 3PL companies

in the country, Moran Logistics.

Moran is a family-owned company

established in 2006, providing logistics

for companies supplying chilled,

ambient and frozen foods. They are

market leaders for temperature-

controlled distribution, and their

strategy focuses on customer

collaboration, network optimisation,

high operational performance,

innovation and personnel development.

Our relationship with Moran Logistics

began when they sought out a

transport management solution as

a result of considerable expansion.

The main focus of their search

was to ensure they could enhance

engagement with customers while

managing routes and schedules

for drivers, tractors and trailers.

The solution they required had to

be capable of providing transport

planning across multiple depots, all

the while providing central visibility

for management – we provided

our flagship transport management

software package,

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TMS.

Rob McAdoo, managing director of

Moran Logistics, commented: “In

selecting an IT partner, we wanted a

company we could work with that not

only had the right products for our

business, but also one that understood

the 3PL marketplace and the demands

customer contracts place on us.

We have established an excellent

relationship with OBS Logistics at all

levels.”

Offering a broader service

As they expanded, their requirements

grew to include a warehouse

management solution. For this, they

chose our

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WMS software,

which was promptly fully integrated

with our

CALIDUS

TMS solution

across their business. Since the

implementation of these systems,

Moran has successfully won new

warehousing and distribution contracts

and expanded the systems in question.

As Moran had deployed the WMS

and TMS solution as a fully managed

service, they could rely on our services

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TMS and WMS

are fully integrated

Clients’ work

with us is made

exceptionally

cost-effective

through our

solution as a

service model.

Companies who

use our services

pay for the

solution over a

contracted

period

“

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to make the necessary hardware and

infrastructure extensions within the

required timescale.

Rob McAdoo continued: “Increasingly,

the services we offer involve a

combination of transportation and

warehousing. It is important that

our systems reflect this, and provide

seamless integration of collections,

transportation, cross docking,

warehousing, despatch and delivery.

The

CALIDUS

systems are specifically

designed to cater for all of these

operations for multi-client 3PLs

through a single, fully integrated

system. No one else we talked to could

provide such a comprehensive solution

from a single source. As OBS Logistics

provide a resilient solution hosted in

their own data centres, we rely on

them to take care of the systems while

we get on with running our business.”

A collaborative mentality

We are delighted to have established

such a close working partnership with

one of the most customer-focused and

fast-growing companies in the 3PL

marketplace. It is excellent that Moran

has chosen a

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managed

services solution to support its growing

business and customer base into

thefuture.

The Moran example is one of a

growing number of business-critical

solutions that we are proud to be

delivering. We provide services for

a broad and prestigious range of

customers from our two data centres

in northwest England. From these

sites, which are ten miles apart, we are

able to offer geographically resilient

hosted solutions to support operations

suchas:

»Blood distribution across England

for the NHS based on

CALIDUS

TMS

and ePOD supporting 15 centres

and over 200 vehicles collecting and

delivering blood products.

»A delivery network for

pharmaceutical products by road

and air across Australia, New

Zealand, Singapore and Taiwan for

an Australian freight company using

CALIDUS

systems.

»Transport and warehousing

operations across EMEA for DHL

Supply Chain with over 2,000 users

processing millions of transactions,

continuing a client relationship we

have sustained for over 20 years.

This shift in our business also drives

our thinking when it comes to new

products. We recently launched

new products: a suite for transport

management, customer services

timed delivery for the home delivery

marketplace and Vision, which is

a dashboard and alerting tool that

monitors KPIs and alerts managers

to the potential issues they need to

address. All new and existing products

branded under the

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name

are designed to enable deployment

through a fully managed service.

The Sanderson Group, with our

company now a part of it, clearly sees

a strong future for Anisa and all other

firms within. We anticipate that our

managed services model will play a

key role in future success – for us, for

Sanderson and for our clients.

The

CALIDUS

systems are

specifically

designed to

cater for all of

these

operations for

multi-client

3PLs through

a single, fully

integrated

system

“

Blood distribution for

the NHS based on

CALIDUS

TMS

www.anisagroup.com

This article was sponsored by Anisa. The Parliamentary Review is wholly funded by the representatives who write for it. The publication in which this article originally appeared contained the following foreword from Rt Hon Kwasi Kwarteng.

Rt Hon Kwasi Kwarteng's Foreword For The Parliamentary Review

By Rt Hon Kwasi Kwarteng

This year’s Parliamentary Review reflects on a tumultuous and extraordinary year, globally and nationally. As well as being an MP, I am a keen student of history, and I am conscious that 2020 would mark the end of an era. It will be remembered as the year in which we concluded Brexit negotiations and finally left the European Union. Above all, it will be remembered as the year of Covid-19.

In our fight against the pandemic, I am delighted that our vaccination programme is beginning to turn the tide – and I pay tribute to the British businesses, scientists and all those who have helped us to achieve this. But the virus has dealt enormous damage, and we now have a duty to rebuild our economy.

We must ensure that businesses are protected. We have made more than £350 billion available to that end, with grants, business rates relief and our furlough scheme supporting more than 11 million people and jobs in every corner of the country, maintaining livelihoods while easing the pressure on employers. The next step is to work with business to build back better and greener, putting the net zero carbon challenge at the heart of our recovery. This is a complex undertaking, but one which I hope will be recognised as a once in a lifetime opportunity.

Through the prime minister’s ten point plan for a green industrial revolution, we can level up every region of the UK, supporting 250,000 green jobs while we accelerate our progress towards net zero carbon emissions.

With our commitment to raise R&D spending to 2.4% of GDP and the creation of the Advanced Research & Invention Agency, we are empowering our fantastic researchers to take on groundbreaking research, delivering funding with flexibility and speed. With this approach, innovators will be able to work with our traditional industrial heartlands to explore new technologies, and design and manufacture the products on which the future will be built – ready for export around the globe.

And I believe trade will flourish. We are a leading nation in the fight against climate change. As the host of COP26 this year, we have an incredible opportunity to market our low-carbon products and expertise. Our departure from the EU gives us the chance to be a champion of truly global free trade; we have already signed trade deals with more than 60 countries around the world.

As we turn the page and leave 2020 behind, I am excited about the new chapter which Britain is now writing for itself, and for the opportunities which lie ahead of us.

Rt Hon Kwasi Kwarteng
Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy