Navarro Azorín applied technology to logistics to respond to their needs for business management

Source: AS Software 28/10/2010

October 28, 2010

Navarro Azorín stands out in their sector by being specialized in the manufacture of one of the ranges of knobs, feet, handles and decorative accessories most extensive in the market for the furniture industry. Located in Yecla (Murcia), the company, which has a history of almost 40 years, today maintains his position as national leader in the sale for the furniture sector of home through the use of one of their main weapons of differentiation: its renowned design.

Navarro Azorín entrusted once again AS Software implemented its automatic warehouse management system to meet its logistical requirements. And it is that the effective management of this area has become one of the key factors for the company due to the constant and positive evolution of the firm in recent years.

The automation of the management of its warehouses and its integration with the ERP or information system, has in fact been one of the last projects carried out by Navarro Azorín with ACE Software.

With the automation of their stores through the use of radio frequency and the system automatic management of warehouses of AS Software, Navarro Azorín has managed to improve the management of their area of logistics and can cope with high competitiveness that exists today in the Spanish market.

The company has achieved especially expedite the launch of work (OTs) orders by phase sequence

Among other many benefits, the company has achieved especially expedite the launch of work (OTs) orders by phase sequence, a priority objective of the project with the implementation of the GHS AS Software has been fulfilled. And it is that Navarro Azorín needed a flexible tool to launch work orders (painting, bathroom, corte…) to optimize the launch of the same.

The difficulty was that a work order (or production order) may be composed of several buckets of a product. So because it was to seek a solution in which the user could do the launch of the set of buckets in the fastest way, but without losing the traceability of each.

The use of radio frequency was the chosen solution to provide autonomy and ensure traceability through the reading of bar codes (in this case, the label of the domes). Thus, with the introduction of this solution, the process is more agile because policy-makers have the possibility of having information updated in real time. Thus, for example, operators only have to approach with radio frequency terminals to the bucket who want to launch and highlight it. With only this gesture, the program is able to automatically generate an order to manufacture, showing the tasks to perform on the parts that are launching.

RF integration in production

Another of the many advantages that the company has obtained production and through its link with the SGA is the possibility of knowing the number of units produced in each phase or the production sequence from the weight of the same, without the need for the user units.

This has been possible, because the ERP extrapolates the weight of each product, with and without tara, to units using the link for all processes of entry of material with the existing Navarro Azorín scales in each of the phases.

Another notable factor in the project has been the many advantages that provided the link for the external store, type Miniload by trays, Navarro Azorín used for the control of his stock of finished and semi-processed products with the information (ERP) system.

This automatic warehouse allows Navarro Azorín store your goods quickly and easily. Later and through requests made from the ERP, the system provides user expeditions by extracting the material. Thus the company has achieved greater optimization of space notably reducing the surface for storage as well as an increase in productivity in entries and picking, to eliminate the routes and searches by warehouse.

The EMS with its transportation agency applications are also linked. To do so during the expedition, the user will weigh and serving units requested by the customer.

Once verified that everything is correct the system emits automatically label the transportation agency, with the necessary data for the expedition, and generates way online file and the road map for the carrier. Then only you must enter the number of tracking, awarded by the Agency of transportation, in order to track the shipment on the website of the carrier

Benefits of the GHS

In general, with the automation of their stores through the system automatic management of warehouses of AS Software, Navarro Azorín has achieved a marked improvement in their logistics processes achieving an optimum management and maximum storage capacity also thanks to the management locations online.

Also, the firm assured service to its customers by eliminating the errors in the preparation of orders and the stock and has obtained a higher performance from your store through the control and management of their operational resources.

This solution has allowed him to guarantee the traceability of the products, ensuring the control of stocks and the quality of services

This solution has also enabled the traceability of the products, ensuring the control of stocks and the quality of services and to improve its efficiency in the production, storage and distribution.

Ultimately, with the system automatic management of warehouses of AS Software, Navarro Azorín has managed to improve all the processes in the store, such as inventories, relocation or transfer, and processes of grouping of goods, among others, speeding to maximize operations and minimizing the error caused by the human factor.