Leading Stevedoring Lithuanian Company to select WarehouseExpert to Manage new Coldstore

Released on = June 22, 2007, 2:14 am

Press Release Author = Nancy Berger

Industry = Transportation & Logistics

Press Release Summary = (Paramus, New Jersey, Vilnius, Lithuania June 21, 2007)
KLAIPEDOS SMELTE TO SELECT MADE4NET WMS FOR MANAGING ITS NEW 3PL BUSINESS.

Press Release Body = Made4Net and its Lithuanian partner Logistikos Projektai have
announced the winning of a WMS project in Klaipedos Smelte, a leading stevedoring
company in Lithuania. The solution will be jointly implemented by Made4net and
Logistikos Projektai in a very tight schedule, with the objective to run a high
volume warehouse, early July 2007.

Klaipedos Smelte offers a wide range of services, among which cargo handling is one
of the main ones. The company that handles different types of cargo, such as fish
products, fruit and vegetables, grain, liquid and dry mineral fertilizers, and more,
has decided to enter the area of outsourcing cold store services, thus extending its
supply chain and logistics offerings. To achieve that objective, Klaipedos Smelte is
currently building a 10,000 square meter automated coldstore building in the port of
Klaipeda.

The new coldstore will be situated at the south side on the Smelte terrain on a new
quay, aiming to handle an expected annual turnover 400.000 tons in 2010. The
coldstore will be
equipped with nearly 100 mobile racks that are situated in 5 chambers, enabling the
inbound capacity of 200 pallets per an hour.

WarehouseExpertT will seamlessly integrate to Storax controllers of the mobile
racking system, to efficiently manage the inbound and outbound processes of this
high volume operation. In addition to the automated machinery, the forklifts will be
equipped with the latest technology such as Radio Frequency terminals and barcode
technology, and will automate all processes starting with unloading the vessels,
receipt, optimized storage and putaway within the mobile racks, picking and loading
the trains and trucks.

\"There is no such existing terminal with such an advanced automated systems
installed in whole Baltic sea region\" says Liutauras Varanavičius, Project
manager of new building coldstore of Klaipedos Smelte.

The new warehouse management solution, WarehouseExpert, will help Klaipedos Smelte
to leverage its business and position itself as one of the leading 3PL companies in
the Baltics.


About Klaipedos Smelte
Klaipedos Smelte was registered as a private enterprise in 1998. Since that time the
value of the company has always been increasing: annual stevedoring turnover grows,
the brand of the company becomes well-known both in Lithuania and beyond its
boundaries. Klaipedos Smelte gradually grows from a company providing stevedoring
services into a systematically functioning logistics system rendering integrated
logistics services.
For details: www.smelte.lt

About Made4net
Made4net delivers real time execution solutions for supply chain management. Its
flagship product, WarehouseExpertT, is a WMS solution for managing small to large
warehouses. WarehouseExpert along with TransportExpert for managing and optimizing
the distribution process, and additional complementary modules such as Yard
Management, Loading Management and Proof of Delivery, provide a powerful integrated
end-to-end execution solution.

For more information about Made4net's comprehensive supply chain execution solution
SCExpertT contact Nancy Berger at nancy(@)made4net.com and visit
http://www.made4net.com


Web Site = http://www.made4net.com/warehouse.php

Contact Details = Made4net
87 South Farview Ave.
Paramus, NJ 07652
USA

+1 (201) 645-4345

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