BACKGROUND

Our client is a company from Southeast Europe that is renowned for its production and distribution of food, beverages, and pharmaceuticals. They required expert guidance regarding the technical assessment of WMS solutions offered by different vendors.

CHALLENGES

Verifying standard system functionalities declared by bidders based on the company’s EWM key requirements. These include:

• General logistic aspects, administration, goods receipt, picking, material flow, inventory, order management, quality management, shipping, warehouse management, labeling, reports, reservation.

SOLUTION HIGHLIGHTS

• Evaluation of the technical documentation
• Technical analysis and system recommendation
• Meetings with selected bidders and analysis of the demo system presentations
• Verification of demonstrated and declared functionalities and system interfaces in order to understand the quality of the demo
• Verification of flexibility for further changes or development

KEY RESULTS

As a trusted and expert partner, we achieved the following results for our client:

• Final assessment report for three of the selected bidders
• Gap list for missing or inconsistent functionalities
• List of benefits — facilitating system solutions
• A graphic comparison of the major key EWM requirement components, depicted in a color-coded table

BACKGROUND

Our client is a company based in Western Asia, specializing in automotive services and retail. The client required the development of a scalable solution to unify, optimize, and minimize risks, costs, and losses in business processes.

CHALLENGES

1. Optimizing storage space
2. Increasing warehouse productivity
3. Improving customer service

SOLUTION HIGHLIGHTS

• addressing storage with abc segmentation
• stocking consolidation
• receiving organization: addition to existing stock

2/ The organization of address storage, tracking each unit to the lowest level of detail

3/ Acceptance strategy: by product group

4/ Replenishment of “piece storage”

5/ Reduction of labor costs:

• for taking inventory
• exclusion of “extra mileage” during shipment and acceptance
• resource dependency elimination

6/ Improving assembly accuracy — minimizing errors (the human factor): the introduction of mobile terminals and reflecting operations in the system in real time

7/ Increasing assembly speed by optimizing the route: automatic, semi-automatic, and manual planning and launching of waves

KEY RESULTS

Through knowledge, professionalism and ongoing dialogue with our client, we achieved the following:

• More efficient use of warehouse space
• 60% reduction in shortages and surpluses based on the results of the inventory
• 40% reduction in order formation times
• 30% reduction in intra-warehouse movements/operations
• The number of errors in the formation of orders has been reduced to zero
• Control and analysis of personnel performance