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and analytics barriers that were preventing us from progressing at the pace we ’ re accustomed to . Finding the right solution isn ’ t always about picking the most popular technology , it requires an in depth understanding of the use cases , the people , and most importantly , the culture . If you work with partners who don ’ t understand all three of these factors as well as Grey Matter do then it ’ s like trying to force a square peg in a round hole .
“ Once we had the right platform we started to use our experienced data science team to help us understand what the data was telling us and very quickly started to make some informed
decisions about where to store products , how and when to move them efficiently , and how to make significant improvements to an already world class logistics business .
“ It ’ s important to realise that technology alone wouldn ’ t have improved the performance . We relied heavily on the input , domain knowledge and foresight of the logistics team to put the technical icing on the operationally excellent cake .”
While making the operation more systemic , Warne and his teams
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