Archive for April, 2011
Colourgen Aims for Operational Excellence
Colourgen aims for operational excellence with transport and warehouse solutions from Bishopsgate Specialist Installations
Colourgen was established over 15+ years ago and is now one of the UK’s leading distributors of large format printers and related items. The company has enjoyed controlled expansion over recent years and decided that an overhaul of its supply chain was required to support this future growth. The company wanted to establish a single carrier that could warehouse, transport and install all of its large format printers for their clients.
“Our success has been built upon exceeding our clients expectations said Chris Garraway, If a client says they want their printer delivered to the 3rd floor, the lift has packed up and they need the printer put onto its stand on site… tomorrow morning, we want to be able to say an emphatic yes at the time of ordering rather than a series of ifs, buts and maybes”
After a thorough review of the market, Colourgen chose Bishopsgate to provide this service for them. Bishopsgate have proven experience in going the extra mile and have ‘state of the art’ IT systems that allows clients to order, track and check stock movements on line.
John Chalmers
Operations
Mr Scotland. Cut John’s arm and there will be some Bishopsgate blue blood trickling through his veins. Always cost and environmentally conscious, John has built a strong reputation and great relationships with our client base north of the border.
Martin Gorman
Operations
Martin is all things to our Warrington Depot. Martin has a fantastic ability to sort everything quickly, quietly and efficiently sometimes under pressured environment. Martin Martin’s oozes knowledge and experience having worked at Bishopsgate since 1993 and for 40 years in this industry.
Andrew Lucas
Operations
Having worked with logistics giants TNT & Hertz in Australia it was an obvious choice to move to Ward Thomas in the UK from Australia! Scheduling vehicles and crews in London can be a real challenge where small distances can take hours and these transferable skills have been invaluable to Bishopsgate.
Nick Thomson
Operations
Where others would run away screaming for help in the face of unforeseen challenges, unflappable Nick is the calm, confident one. He knows the industry and business inside out when it comes to transportation and seems to possess a 6th sense knowing where each vehicle and driver is at all times. As an added support to his innate abilities, he is also our expert on satellite navigation tracking and scheduling.
Mark Dowling
Operations
Mark’s vision for creating the optimum storage solution has transformed our warehouse depots into state of the art showpieces. With supreme organisation down to the smallest detail, Mark and his team can instantly access information on anything and everything at each facility.
Ted Adams
Operations
Ted heads up our operations and ensures everything works as it should across the entire organisation. He joined Bishopsgate from Ward Thomas, a brand in our group, and has brought with him a “can do” attitude, a wealth of insight and experience…as well as a an amazing ability to fix just about anything!
Mandy Thomson
Customer Services
Mandy is the ”mum” of the team, the rock in the office. Having been the first through the door when Swindon was opened there is nothing she doesn’t know about the Warehouse Management System, the customers product, and the more we challenge Mandy the better she becomes!
Sarah Goodwin
Customer Services
Recently back from maternity leave following the arrival of Madison Sarah Goodwin LLB (Hons) makes coming to work fun. She has been with Bishopsgate for over 6 years and has helped develop the customer services framework that we operate within now. Her legal brain can come in quite useful at times too.
Sharon Bloch
Customer Services
Sharon “job shares” with Sarah to provide a constant full time resource for our customers. Sharon has recently. returned to her love in Sales Administration following successful 5 year period when she bought, ran and grew her own moving business. Following this sale Sharon fulfilled her wish to work part time though her ability to “pick up the baton” means you wouldn’t know it