When Umbro was purchased
by Nike, in 2007, a period
of investment and
improvement at the company’s UK
facilities followed. This included
vehicle computer terminals for its
warehouse operation from DLoG.

The average pick is tens of
thousands of pieces per day, with
differing daily ratios between
footwear and apparel. Umbro used
to operate its own enterprise resource
planning software.When the
company moved to Nike’s preferred
platform, SAP, great effort went into
making sure it could still cope with
the same product volumes using the
new system, with the same number
of staff.

One of the few issues was the
truck mounted computers used for
stocking and picking information.

Scanning using the new SAP software
on the old truck-mount PCs took
about 5 seconds per item. SAP
recommended DLoG’s hardware
based on experience of another
customer with similar problems.

A 10in DLoG unit was trialled, but
with the smaller screen the text
shrunk slightly. DLoG replaced the
trial unit with a 12in one. An MCP6
with a 1.6GHz dual-core processor
was chosen.

Moving to the rugged DLoG
MPC6 truck-mounted PCs resulted
in a one second scan time – saving 4
seconds on every item scanned.