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Logistics analysis

Aricia specialises in helping people to understand their business better by identifying the trends, patterns, interrelationships and abnormalities that are hidden in data - we've invested in specialised software to enable us to do this quickly and effectively.

The analysis may involve part of your supply chain (transport, warehousing, international) or any other part of your business - stock data at for large SKU operations, track and trace at consignment level, customer order or returns records.

They say a picture can tell a thousand words, and we use a variety of graphical analysis techniques (graphs, 'traffic lights' in spreadsheets, mapping) to make data more useful and palatable.

This embedded display is an easily accessible demo of one of the tools we use - it's about properties, but it could just as easily be customer deliveries: Omniscope ...but wait until you've got time for 5 or 10 minutes over a coffee!

This only demonstrates a small part of the mapping function - but if you like this, you'll also like what it does with spreadsheets including when potential customers give you large files that you might struggle to open in Excel - stock data at SKU level, consignment information at parcel level, customer returns records, etc.

As with everything we do, we are very keen to pass on skills and often leave our customers' staff with additional knowledge and techniques that they can use themselves in future projects.