The company has been reduced by 60 percent the time of the logistic processes
Sluz, manufacturer of lighting products, committed to efficient logistics in your store of Molins de Rei (Barcelona)
October 28, 2010
Sluz Finds specialised in the manufacture of devices of technical lighting. Pertaining to Group Indal, one of the main groups of the sector of the lighting in Spain, has a wallet of more than 1.500 customers between which stand out signatures so prestigious like Channel, Body Shop, Yves Rocher, Pieces of furniture The Factory, Etam Lingerie, etc. and a turnover of more than ten million euros. Sluz Besides commercialises his products in 45 countries of all the world through his own network of distribution. The complexity that this fact comports, together with the eagerness to offer the maximum quality of service to his customers, went some of the main reasons by which Sluz decided to automate the management of his warehouse of Molins of Rei (Barcelona).
Continuous growth of the firm in recent years, needed more innovative technology to organize their distributions, especially given the large number of articles and clients with which it works. This made necessary the adoption of a technological solution to allow comprehensive control of warehouses.
After the assessment of different solutions, Sluz opted for automatic management system stores developed by ACE Software. This solution has allowed, through its combination with the use of radio frequency terminals, manage online and real-time information flows associated with their logistics operations and integrate them effectively into your ERP.
Until then, Sluz had not worked with any automatic warehouse management system. With the implementation of the GHS sought to respond to two fundamental needs for the company: the safety of all its logistics processes and increase the agility of the same. Also, wanted to put an end to the typical human faults in any warehouse operations, and more specifically in the circuit of expedition where sometimes is issued by mistake a product on the other, with the negative consequences that this fact leads to economic level and image of the company's face to customers. "Was decided to computerize the store as a measure of improvement in terms of speed and security of the process." "Remove also the human error in the preparation of orders and have shortened the times of the tours" notes Luis Caparrós, Chief Operating Officer of Sluz.
New stage
The first phase of the project consisted of studying the logistic processes of Sluz to search for a solution that would cover all your needs. The automatic warehouse management system offered a radio frequency system integrated with the ERP that Georgias form on-line and transparently to users through the use of radio frequency barcode laser reader and wireless reader terminals.
The introduction of the automatic warehouse management system has allowed the company to stand out even more than his competition for its quality and effectiveness in the service customer to completely change the way you manage the store. "We can do so on-line and in real time all the necessary logistical movements." Our employees can be quickly and easily various processes such as the receipt of equipment (control of packages, reading barcodes, tags, locations, checking and identification codes); preparation of expeditions (optimize collection routes, check automatically expeditions...), etc. We have also streamlined the management of inventories, relocation and identification labels, consumption of production, etc. ", said Caparros."
The implementation of the GHS has allowed the company to stand out even more than his competition for its quality and effectiveness in the service customer to completely change the way you manage the store
This solution provides now Sluz maximum reliability with regard to the holdings information and its physical location in the warehouse, ensuring that all items that are served to the client are really the same that have been sued. Thus the company has achieved a streamlining of all logistical processes and an improvement in the quality of the service customer.
In this way, the warehouse management system developed by ACE Software has enabled a greater integration of the supply chain with customers and suppliers, ensuring full traceability of the products and the management of stocks and warehouses in real time.
Logistical circuit
The automatic warehouse management system allows Sluz make receipt of tickets for purchase through the ERP and, through the use of the radio frequency terminal, look for the best free location for the goods at its warehouse in Molins de Rei. Thus, the material received is placed by operators quickly on the shelves automatically becoming part of the Royal stock of the firm through the online communication that occurs in bi-directional way between the USG and the system of enterprise information.
For shipped merchandise only Sluz must generate the list with the materials that the user should pick up in store from the ERP. Through the use of radio frequency terminals, the user ensures traceability and service customer generating the packing slip for sale in real time.
Also, through the use of the radio frequency and with the circuit of material reserve, Sluz can "away", the circuit of sales, all those materials that may be needed to complete a particular expedition, thus eliminating his availability for the rest of expeditions of the company. This possibility allows the firm to effectively manage those shipments of high-volume or by number of units or their amount, and that must be completed on a particular date, as the expedition will be completing depending on the availability of material. Finally only build a single waybill with reservations previously generated.
On the other hand, Sluz also has integrated its circuits of production with the GHS, and can launch from the ERP work orders arriving in the store personnel via radio frequency terminals, thereby ensuring the service outsourcing providers.
BenefitsUltimately, the introduction of the automatic system of management of warehouses has been for Sluz great benefits include a notable acceleration and increase of the safety of the workflow. He has also managed to ensure to maximize the quality of the transactions carried out in the administration of your store making, thus a comprehensive logistical control of your organization in a totally automated way. "We have saved more than 60 percent of the time in some of the warehouse processes." "In addition we have minimized to maximize the error caused by the human factor ensuring the quality of our service", says Luis Caparrós.
And that, Sluz has managed to avoid the typical mistakes of the expeditions that sent wrong products, once the system verifies that the issued is actually requested. All this in real-time and without relying on administrative departments to process the information.
