The Decisive Technology
April 25th, 2021, Reko CICD V2021.1.0.0 for BlueYonder WMS is officially released.
Here, are some key improvements you might be interested.
April 6th, 5 years ago today, Reko started its journey reluctantly after JDA Shanghai ODC where we spent 12 years , many members’ entire career, in RedPrairie then JDA WMS product team, was shutdown. We often joke about that we are bunch of people ‘institutionalized’ by WMS, we have to start Reko to make worth of our years experiences and knowledge or give it all away.
20 months, that’s the average life-span of start-up company, and only 10% start-up company succeed, according to google. We celebrate our 5 year birthday at Reko as survivors with joy and gratitude to our partners, clients, and friends from this small WMS community for their trust and support.
Above all, there’s no better celebration than another successful go-live, and recognization from BlueYonder.
January 6, 2020, Shenyang and Zhengzhou, China, we started our 2020 with 2 go-lives at Reko! These 2 sites made Reko Go-live record hit 26. And they are the first JDA WMS implementation Reko did on AWS, with clustered MOCA and Load-Balancing REFS, and more.
Well begun is half done, we look forward a wonderful year ahead, for Reko, and for everyone. Happy new year 2020!
May 24, 2019, Singapore, the first outbound truck was closed and dispatched for one of the world top footwear retailer store delivery. This is the 3rd Reko JDA WMS go-live in 2019, and the 2nd one in Singapore.
Successful JDA WMS go-live is not unusual for Reko. Yet what makes this one unique is Reko did literally zero coding on this project. Not any RF change, none business logic, but all by standard feature with configuration. Even EDIs were adopted to standard JDA EDI.
People might think this is a simple warehouse. Well, there’s nothing simple in retail industry now days, especially fashion. We implemented list picking, packing, cross-docking, for both B2B store delivery and B2C On-line orders.
JDA’s Technical Architect is probably the best one in supply chain industry. Its flexibility and openness for customization is beyond compare, which makes itself a open platform for developers almost can do anything with it. While real professional and disciplined project team knows how messy it could be when this advanced technology fall into wrong hands. JDA WMS is not only about its technology, it’s about best industry practices from thousands of clients and experts who brought in years of knowledge from field. It’s like by-pass the most knowledgeable books in the best supply chain library and pick up a good pen and paper to write your own book.
Don’t get me wrong, customization IS necessary in many cases to make the best out of WMS. But it will be another discussion for another day regarding the principles for a GOOD customization. For now, we congratulate our client and project team for their success.
March 27, 2019, Sydney, Australia became the 10th country where Reko had successful JDA WMS implementation. This is Kuehne-Nagel facility for one of leading apparel company in the world. The site operation covers B2B to customer stores and partners, and B2C support for on-line shopping. The operation includes cross-docking, list picking, order packing, and customized receiving and sorting functionalities due to customer’s high value good.
It’s been a joyful, yet sometime challenging journey for Reko to work with people from so many countries with variety of culture backgrounds. The more we learned from so diversified cultures through our work, the more confidence we have in the prosperity of Asia Pacific.
March 4, 2019, Shanghai, Bangkok, Jakarta, and Hu Chi Minh, 4 cities, 4 countries, Reko helped Kuehne-Nagel, the largest sea forwarding company in the world, to go-live 4 warehouses in same day.
Kuehne-Nagel and Reko worked together as a real professional team and made it happen! And this is new record high of go-live efficiency in Reko since Reko helped Amway go-live Singapore and Malaysia sites in same day.
A success story is always written by both great consulting team like Reko and professional client team like Kuehne-Nagel. Reko is honored to work great companies!
