Vyatka Meat Company automated a warehouse based on EME.WMS

2023: Warehouse automation based on EME.WMS

On May 17, 2023, the company EME announced that the implementation EME.WMS allowed "" Vyatka Meat Company to optimize logistic processes, significantly increase performance warehouse operations, and minimize the impact of the "human factor." EME specialists have proposed non-standard solutions to the problem of automating the company's warehouse.

The current approach to business organization, of course, dictates the need to use innovative solutions, primarily the key one - the organization. And the growing logistics goods turnover company has shown that automation is clearly needed to manage warehouse logistics effectively. To automate business processes in the warehouse, the management of the Vyatka Meat Company chose the EME.WMS system.

The company's warehouse with an area of 3500 sq.m. is located in Kirov. Warehouse zoning and the principle of storage of goods has a number of features. More than 4000 SKUs are stored in the warehouse. These are meat, dairy, fish, groceries, frozen products, vegetables, fruits, drinks, baby food, household chemicals, tobacco products, etc. The warehouse is divided into three zones - the grocery zone, the freeze zone and the cooling zone. In order for the goods to wait for shipment in their zone, three zones of collected orders are organized in accordance with the storage features. The main storage area contains mix pallets broken down by SKU, terms, batches.

Prior to the implementation of the automation project, accounting at the warehouse was carried out in the 1C program. It gave only general information about the location and quantity of goods in the warehouse. Accounting and control using bar coding, including the use of data collection terminals, could not be applied. There was no order in the warehouse. There were serious problems with the control of shelf life, batches of products that are critical when storing food and frozen products, difficulties taking into account expired products. These features of goods and storage had to be taken into account by employees, which led to an unacceptable number of errors and a strong dependence on the "human factor." In fact, 1C provided only limited accounting, but not warehouse management.

In the course of the project, EME specialists, in addition to automating the main business processes of the warehouse, needed to organize batch and shelf life control, work with a weight product, correctly work with FSIS Honest Sign and Mercury, integration with the high-temperature (weight and size characteristics) system to optimize the storage of goods.

The launch of the system was clearly planned by the EME team. The preparation of the implementation and work in the warehouse took 2 months. A Wi-Fi network was deployed in advance, data collection terminals and label printers were purchased. Some tasks required a non-standard approach. Particular attention was paid to the peculiarities of zoning the warehouse and placement of goods. Now the card of each product indicates in which area the storage should be carried out. This allows you to exclude damage to the goods when placing in the wrong zone. The same binding was implemented for warehouse employees in order to minimize the loss of working time for changing clothes. The system automatically distributes the goods and employees to the warehouse areas during operation.

In the main storage area, when forming a mix pallet, EME.WMS checks the shelf life for each SKU and does not allow the placement of the same product with different dates. Shipping is carried out by mix pallets without the need to separate them. As a result of the implementation of EME.WMS, the warehouse is fully organized. There are no errors in the formation of orders, clear control over shelf life has been established, including accounting for the percentage of shelf life when shipping to distant regions (order selection algorithms take into account different delivery times to regions). Shipments of expired products stopped, the impact of dependence on the "human factor" was minimized. Integration with FGIS "Honest Sign" has been set up, integration with FGIS "Mercury" directly, without the participation of ERP. Integration with MASSA-K electronic weighing equipment was carried out. The employees and management of the Vyatka Meat Company assessed the results of the reorganization activities in the warehouse and are fully satisfied with the results of the implementation of EME.WMS. Cooperation between the companies continues within the framework of technical support.