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Oxford’s
management believe in ongoing improvement. The company’s
knowledge and the latest advances in technology are used
in a campaign of constant advancement. The management believes
that state of
the art technology development is an essential element in
providing the best possible service to customers.
One of Oxford’s main strength is derived from the company’s
investment in technology and systems over many years. Its commitment
to technology is the basis for establishing the Oxford Logistics
Group. The following list is an example of some of the technology
investment made by Oxford over the years:
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The company’s advanced Radio Frequency (RF) Warehouse Management
System (WMS) has been developed in-house for several years.
- Oxford employs many technology specialists including
Programmers, Information Technology specialists, System Administrators,
and
Database Administrators.
- Oxford monitors all plant, machinery and temperatures
through SCADA based technology.
- A number of customised hardware and software solutions
have been implemented at Oxford over many years, which has improved
many
areas of the business.
- Power redundancy including advanced UPS battery backups
and diesel generators is used for all critical technology equipment.
- Hardware redundancy including RAID, redundant power
supplies, hot spare servers, redundant equipment and a strict
backup regimes
help to ensure extremely low levels of downtime within
the company.
- The implementation of Electronic Data Interfaces (EDI)
with most of the companies larger sized customers.
Oxford’s
commitment to IT is reinforced the establishment of Radio
Terminal Systems Pty Ltd (RTS). RTS manufactures, supports
and repairs radio frequency (RF) computer terminals and scanning
devices. Manufacturing and support services are based on the
same site as Oxford which allows for extra RF equipment are readily
available.
The company has a large degree of control over the development
and maintenance of its RF systems. RTS manufactures hardware
for Oxford
and a number of other users.
Oxford management have further committed
to IT with the establishment of Fleet Management Systems
(FMS) which provides and supports
specialist transport management and tracking software,
For
more information on RTS please visit the:
http://www.radterm.com.au website.
For more information on FMS
please visit the:
http://www.fleetmanagementsystems.com.au website.
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