Manual labor of operators is automated at Zelenodolsk Dairy Processing Plant

2021: Manual Automation

On January 20, 2022, Neti (Neti) announced the automation of manual labor and time savings for operators at the Zelenodolsk Dairy Processing Plant.

Customer has contacted Neti to:

• automate the loading of orders that send federal chain stores to e-mail;
• expedite the loading schedule, cars taking into account the carrying capacity of the machines and the time of delivery trade to the points;
• Create additional processes that simplify the operation of logistics operators.

The operators of the customer make a schedule for loading cars every day, where they distribute the loading time and delivery areas. Loading takes place at night and takes 40 minutes for each car: from 00:00 to 00:40, from 00:40 to 01:20, and so on.

Operators have traditionally worked with Excel.

The customer asked to develop a new functionality in 1C: ERP, which generates a loading schedule in automatic mode. At the same time, there were conditions:

• each driver has his own delivery zone: if a person usually travels to Kazan, then he cannot be assigned to the Samara route;
• for each route, a loading period is defined so that drivers have enough time to travel to the shops;
• at the same time, 14 cars could stand on loading - the number of gates in warehouses. At the same time, ten gates could accept heavy vehicles, and the rest - only light "heels." A truck cannot drive into a small gate, and a "heel" - into large ones.

Register creation: the load capacity of the gate is entered and data are associated with drivers, cars, routes and loading periods. Now, when you click the button, drivers are automatically distributed according to time, gate and delivery areas.

Thanks to this revision, operators no longer spend several hours on scheduling. They distribute machines with one click of a button, print a document and give it to drivers

ZMK supplies products to retail chains. Stores send orders every day in the form Excel-. files Operators checked, mail downloaded sent files, and manually created orders.

In addition, it was necessary to check the names of the products, since the names of the networks do not coincide with the names of ZMK. For example, the store orders "Children's cottage cheese 5%," and in the plant base it is "Children's cottage cheese 100 grams 5% fat." To compare the names of stores and ZMK, operators kept a separate table. It all took a long time.

It was previously clarified whether stores can change the format of Excel files and coordinate product names with ZMK. Turns out, no. Then, to automate the loading of orders, processing was created that takes into account all these nuances and unloads operators.

Now 1Specifies to mail, parses an Excel file, matches item names, creates orders, and sends a letter with the result. Operators see two letters: the first from the store, the second automatic with a ready order. If the order has been processed successfully, the letter from 1C says "The point of sale has been processed in the Customer Order document."