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The introduction of Axelot WMS X5 in the warehouses of the Stavropol Water and Beer Company reduced the period of personnel adaptation from two weeks to two hours

Customers: Stavropol Water and Beer Company (SVPK)

Contractors: Axelot
Product: Axelot WMS X5

Project date: 2021/11  - 2022/04

2022: Axelot WMS X5 Implementation

On April 7, 2022, Axelot announced that thanks to AXELOT WMS X5, introduced in the warehouses of the Stavropol Water and Beer Company, it was possible to optimize business processes in the three interconnected warehouses of the company and optimize the adaptation time for employees.

According to the company, the company's warehouse complex consists of six separate warehouses located on the same territory in Stavropol, however, only three of them were included in the perimeter of the pilot project: a "water" warehouse with an area of ​ ​ 1400 square meters. m, a "beer" warehouse with an area of ​ ​ 1700 square meters. m and a transit warehouse with an area of ​ ​ 1500 square meters. m Their total range is more than 1000 SKU.

The business processes of the complex needed optimization. It was not possible to maintain balance records, and warehouse personnel adapted for a long time. To close these and other bottlenecks, the company's management decided to implement WMS.

The choice for AXELOT WMS X5 was made due to the speed of implementation of the system and the experience of AXELOT SOFT specialists. Due to the constant interdependent operation of all three warehouses, it was decided to launch them simultaneously, although initially the launch of warehouses was planned in turn. The simultaneous launch minimized the shutdown of the company's business processes. At the same time, all three warehouses use one WMS database, and the warehouse topology has been "rendered" using three different rooms.

The typical AXELOT WMS X5 system configuration was sufficient to solve most of the project tasks. The exception was only the following minor modifications related to the peculiarities of the customer's business processes:

  • Due to the specificity of a number of process plans for the correct assembly process, the original Shipment Plan document with the Shipment to Customer category was split into two orders based on the Warehouse (Water or Beer) field in the Shipment Plan lines.
  • Due to the large number of nomenclatures duplicating the main commodity items (for example, "Zhiguli 0.5," "Action Zhiguli 0.5," "Bonus Zhiguli 0.5," "Promo Zhiguli 0.5"), there was a need to refine the functionality of non-unique barcodes. When scanning a non-unique barcode for receiving and shipping, the system selected the storage area from the relevant document (Expected Receipt or Order to Ship). During the inventory - from the composition of the pallet.
  • For ease of removal of collected pallets to the ramp, information about the driver and the shipping order number was added during the consolidation phase. Thus, the employee understood where to carry this pallet, and the driver - in what sequence to load it.

The project team used the message queuing service DATAREON MQ to ensure the exchange of information between the implemented WMS and the enterprise CMS.

Before automation, during the receipt of goods, the warehouse manager recalculated the amount of goods received and checked the receipt lot. Then the pallets were placed in storage areas distributed among manufacturers, after which the barcode with the document number was scanned, and the document was conducted at the CIE.

After starting the system at the time of goods receipt, the warehouse manager enters the data in WMS with the help of the shipping documentation, and the warehouse operator checks the plan and the receipt fact. The fact is unloaded to the CMS. Thus, it was possible to increase the speed of the processes of acceptance and placement of products.

To carry out the shipment, the collector previously received paper with the composition of the order and collected the goods, noting the collected items. Then the assembled pallet was transferred to the warehouse manager, who controlled the number and lot. The inspected pallet was moved for shipment to the driver, then the barcode with the order number was scanned, and the document was carried out in the CIE.

During the project, the outgoing flow has also undergone qualitative changes, so assembly and control are now carried out through the shipping documentation, which reduces the number of errors at shipment. Also, the WMS operator can use the "Flight" document to regulate the procedure for assembling orders and loading collected pallets into the vehicle.

In addition to optimizing operations, the implementation of AXELOT WMS X5 made it possible to achieve other changes in the operation of the warehouse. The obvious point that was noticed already at the launch stage was a reduction in the period of adaptation of employees on the assembly of orders. It used to be 1-2 weeks, now only 1-2 hours.

After studying the production data collected using WMS, it turned out to note the difference between the best and worst employee in the assembly (the difference was 55% in the water warehouse and 40% in the beer warehouse). Thanks to these data, it became possible to correctly distribute the wage fund according to the collected mass.

It was possible to reach the standard work volumes of the warehouse, which were before the implementation of WMS, at the end of the first week after the launch of the system.

Thus, the implementation of AXELOT WMS X5 allowed to make the warehouse business processes of the Stavropol Water and Beer Company more transparent and optimize them, helped to revise the distribution of POT and reduce the period necessary for the adaptation of employees. It is planned to replicate the solution in the other three warehouses of the complex.