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Rico Logistics was established on 4 November 1993.〔(Company data listing for Rico Logistics on www.DueDil.com )〕〔(Directory listing on Cyclex Business Directory )〕 The business had 3 founders – Sanj “Sam” Sharma, and brothers Jag and Manohar Grewal〔(The Sunday Times HSBC International Track 100 2010 outlines the business start up )〕 who started the business with £100 working capital. Since then, it has become a totally integrated logistics solution by forming partnerships with its customers which stretches the boundaries of traditional outsourcing. By working in partnership, a whole suite of solutions is available from sameday courier solutions, to break/fix technical repair and replace solutions, to warehousing and distribution management. A real-time tracking system allows location tracking and progress of consignments. ==History== The business started under the name Ricochet Couriers, providing same-day courier services in and around Slough. The business quickly expanded to four offices within the West London area and then commenced servicing contracts in the IT sector. All emergency calls were generally serviced from one major warehouse in the UK and it proved difficult to reach all of the UK from one location within four hours. The business decided to invest in setting up a number of strategic warehouses all over the UK to ensure any major city could be reached within two to four hours from these strategic warehouses. The parts delivered were to engineers servicing the retail and banking sector and as demand increased to facilitate clients within the server and various other sectors, more warehouses and PUDO’s (Pick up and Drop off centres) were introduced. The business could see that more and more of the critical parts required were becoming modular and could be swapped by smart technicians and thus decided to invest in offering technicians who could carry out the actual fix and exchange of the part at the customers’ location. In 2002, Ricochet Couriers acquired Burnham Logistics〔(Fulfilment & E-logistics magazine interview with Rico Logistics, Summer 2008 )〕 who provided peripheral technicians (200) plus moves and installations of IT equipment. Field Stock Locations (FSL) and In-Night parts distribution for service engineers in the IT industry. Ricochet developed the technical swap model rapidly and began using fully trained IT engineers to enhance and support their clients’ requirements. In 2004, Ricochet realised that tracking of parts out bound and return was critical to ensuring an optimum supply chain loop and thus invested in a fully blown IT system – called TRACE, that could interface with the clients and track parts at every stage of their movements. Interfaces were developed for major pan European clients and allowed for efficiencies and greater productivity. In addition, a network of over 250 Pick-Up and Drop Off (PUDO) locations were set up to allow clients’ engineers to collect parts and drop off parts from a location close to their home or area in which they worked. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rico Logistics」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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