Baltika implemented new mobile application for increase in efficiency of warehouses

2019

On April 17, 2019 the Baltika company reported that it implemented mobile application for increase in efficiency of warehouses.

According to the company, the development implemented in Baltika company is a step to automation of audit which allows to achieve accuracy assembled of analytical information. Mobile application "Audit the logistics" allows to plan and control quickly activity of the employees performing audit of warehouse. For April, 2019 the application is used for carrying out audit of 48 warehouses of safe custody and 3PL-warehouses, 313 warehouses of distributors of the company in all regions of Russia. In the long term mobile application "Audit logistics" will be used in other Carlsberg Group companies of the region Eastern Europe.

As a result of use of the application for April, 2019 time of carrying out audit was reduced by 60% (from 3-4 to 1-1.5 o'clock). With respect thereto there was an opportunity to book 2-3 audits a day in the warehouses which are in one city that lowered time of business trips and traveling expenses. Automation of processing of results of audits and accuracy of a total became equal to 100% at the expense of an exception of errors when entering data manually. Time of data processing was reduced by 80% – formation of results and the final reporting happens right after clicking of the Complete button.

A system allows to carry out productive work on identification of violations in warehouses of the company and partners. By means of the application employees can exercise operating control behind elimination of the revealed violations, it considerably increases efficiency of interaction of logistic partners with the company. All results of audit are confirmed by photos that reduces risk of wrong auditor opinion of the employee.

Inefficient work of a warehouse can lead to penalties from clients and even suspension of contractual relations. Permanent audit of warehouses is necessary for prevention of such situations. This application is that does process exact, fast and effective. Implementation of process of automation demanded to carry out changes in the existing business processes. In this sense as it seems to me, quite successful model of start of the project – quick start on already available functionality "Monolith audit" and agile-approach was selected from further development – the planned expansion of functionality was divided into small blocks, the working group quickly implemented each of which, implemented and improved on the basis of a feedback from users. Sergey Suchkov, the senior director on region logistics Eastern Europe, Baltika Brewery, a part of Carlsberg Group

The convenient intuitive interface with the hints and instructions available on each step of a visit has the appendix. Thanks to it a warehouse any employee of the company can audit. The user can see on the screen all warehouses in the region, find the necessary warehouse to the address or the name, to plan a visit and to construct a journey route to it.

The special application interface "Audit logistics" is developed for logistic partners of the Company – distributors and product suppliers. He allows to get access to results of carrying out audit of warehouses of partners, acquaints with parts of the booked audit, announces elimination of the notes revealed during last audit gives the chance to confirm the actual execution of works with documents and photos.

At the heart of development of mobile application "Audit the logistics" stood the idea to create the convenient and ergonomic application allowing any executive in charge of Baltika company to carry out the analysis of quality of use of warehouse of partners of the company. The built-in management tools "auditors" allow to use human and temporary resources most effectively. And services of interaction with logistic partners do the most transparent both processes of audit, and processes of elimination of notes based on audit. The number of services and functionality of mobile applications on Baltika constantly grows. And it means that services of the company feel return from mobile technologies. Yury Gerlikh, Head of Department of consulting and implementation of Monolit-Info company