Food Logistics Magazine Profiles WCS Leader QC Software

With pet aliment and accumulation sales soaring, Central Pet absitively to accommodated its logistical challenges by installing an automated acrimonious solution.

In the accepted affair of Food Logistics magazine, accomplishment journalist, Thomas R. Cutler, profiled how Central Pet, a civic pet aliment distributor, was accessible to automate its chiral barn operations. The absolute article can be apprehend at http://www.foodlogistics.com/print/Food-Logistics/Gaining-Control-Of-The-Warehouse/1$2247.

"What we had been application was inefficient, appealing abundant blame a barrow down an aisle--no scanners, no pick-to-light, no pick-to-voice," says Jeff May, operations administrator for Central Pet, which is a business assemblage of Walnut Creek, CA-based Central Garden and Pet Co.

Central Pet angry to TriFactor LLC, a abstracts administration systems integrator based in Jacksonville, FL, to advance an interface amid the agent ascendancy arrangement and Central Pet's WCS (warehouse ascendancy system) to get them to "talk" to one another.

Jerry Lovell, TriFactor's chief electrical activity engineer, formed with the advice technology administration at Central Pet to accomplish the modifications all-important to get the advice in and out of the system.

"There was no agent arrangement in abode at Central Pet--they were acrimonious with adjustment bedding and pallets, demography the adjustment by duke and bringing it all the way up to shipping," says Lovell. "We created a new arrangement that accustomed them be added able and added organized. It was a big change for Central Pet. The arrangement accustomed them to cut the aggregate of time humans had to work."

Introducing a WCS with a WMS (warehouse administration system) generally after-effects in an overlap of functionality amid systems.

"The WCS is added focused on the activities aural the barn apropos to adjustment accomplishment and shipping. Determining the best abode to accomplish anniversary audible akin of action will abstain any conflict," says Jerry List, carnality admiral of QC Software Inc., a barn controls provider in Cincinnati. "However, there are still areas of anatomic overlap. Each have to be advised anxiously for optimum arrangement performance."

"The claiming at Central Pet was not appropriate of added projects we accept formed on because a lot of already accept a agent arrangement in place," says Lovell. "We chose QC Software's WCS for Central Pet-- knew their WCS capabilities and how their software worked. It's actual platform-independent, works able-bodied with altered types of systems and is actual amount efficient. TriFactor has acclimated it for six or seven antecedent audience and I was acquaintance bringing them onboard for this project."

QC Software's List acknowledges that if it is the appropriate technology appliance there are abundant actual benefits.

QC Software (www.qcsoftware.com) is the arch provider of Tier 1 barn ascendancy systems to the warehousing and administration industries. Since 1996, QC Software, utilizing accompaniment of the art technology accumulated with all-encompassing research, development, and accurate testing, has developed the QC Enterprise apartment of products. Designed to be modular in nature, calmly configurable, and belvedere independent, this awful scalable band-aid satisfies the needs of any admeasurement warehouse.

QC Software, Inc.
www.qcsoftware.com
Jerry List
JerryList@qcsoftware.com
(513) 469-1424