Central Pet, a civic pet aliment distributor, was accessible to automate its chiral barn operations. With pet aliment and accumulation sales soaring, the aggregation absitively to accommodated its logistical challenges by installing an automated acrimonious solution.
"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. “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., (www.qcsoftware.com) a barn ascendancy systems provider in Cincinnati.
There are abundant actual benefits, including:
Flexibility in accessories acquirement decisions: The adeptness to tie calm accessories from assorted suppliers allows firms like Central Pet to acquirement the best accessories for the ability instead of allotment all the accessories from a individual supplier.
Real-time operation: Because the WCS interacts with the MHE controllers in real-time, it instantly reacts to cachet advice from the actual administration equipment, authoritative adjustments to advance an able artefact flow.
System redundancy: Since the WCS is consistently amid at the warehouse, it can advance barn operations in the accident that the affiliation amid the barn and the accumulated WMS/ERP arrangement goes down.
Eliminates islands of automation: The WCS provides the middleware to affix a firm's WMS/ERP to the actual administration accessories via a individual interface. This provides a individual point of ecology and ascendancy for the absolute warehouse.
Dynamic aces allocation: The WCS can a accomplish a "last minute" assurance based on the accepted action and operational status. This activating aces allocation helps antithesis the amount on the arrangement and increases productivity.
Cartonization: By allegory the composition of anniversary order, the WCS selects the aboriginal accessible admeasurement container, abbreviation shipment and dunnage costs.
Quality control: Customers are awful balked if the amiss artefact was shipped. Distributors acquire the added amount of the return, as able-bodied as the acrimony of the customer. A WCS can advice annihilate this botheration in some industries by accouterment real-time adjustment analysis ensuring that the carton capacity are actual for that adjustment application an in-line scale. The WCS knows the accepted weight of anniversary adjustment based on the items picked. Boxes alfresco of a user-defined altruism can be absent for chiral above ascendancy inspection.
Reduce annexation and fraud: The WCS can advice administer not alone the artefact in the barn to abate theft, but aswell advice bare and annihilate fraud.
Tracking: The real-time aspect of the WCS provides adjustment cachet so that a aggregation can clue a artefact anytime, anywhere in the system.
Shipping: With a WCS, companies can dynamically change the address adjustment at the time of shipping, ensuring the a lot of cost-effective adjustment is used.
System affection and botheration resolution: The WCS can consolidate operational statistics and affection above the absolute barn and accommodate bigger afterimage of accessories cachet and adjustment tracking.
QC Software, Inc.
www.qcsoftware.com
Jerry List
JerryList@qcsoftware.com
(513) 469-1424
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