SpiceExpert (Kleverens: Warehouse 15)

2023: How to modernize production and optimize accounting: Spice Expert automates the warehouse using Kleverens software

Detailed description

Maintaining a high bar regarding the production of high quality products, expanding the assortment, the current availability of goods in the warehouse and compliance with the shelf life is already not an easy task. And if responsibility to large partners and companies of the HoReCa segment is added to this, banal accounting errors can cost a lot of money and loss of reputation. What to do to avoid this?

{{quote 'author = said Tatiana Smirnova, chief technologist of SPICE EXPERT.|When producing spices and various seasonings, we use a large number of ingredients that are carefully selected. The composition of our mixtures is completely natural, with a unique aroma and unique taste. In addition to modern technological equipment, we use painstaking manual labor of baggers. On the one hand, the development of production requires serious investments, but on the other hand, no one has canceled the competitive environment in the market. Therefore, we came to the conclusion that it is time to carry out deep transformations within the company. And since they were initially set up for long-term improvement programs, they took this issue very seriously,}}

SPICE EXPERT is the market leader in natural seasonings, spices and spices for food production, retail chains and wholesale companies serving the HoReCa segment. There are already more than 1000 SKUs in the range of the trading and production company. In addition to its main activities, the company provides services according to customer requirements: grinding raw materials, packaging, development of seasoning complexes for specific dishes or according to the model.

Шаблон:Quote 'author = said the commercial director of SPICE EXPERT LLC, Andrey Shilov.

Tasks

The use of advanced technologies helps to modernize production, but always entails a complete reorientation of the production process. Usually, the prerequisites for change are the influence of the human factor and low indicators of manual labor results. Digitalization is one of the areas of modernization, which ensures the implementation of warehouse and commodity operations practically without human participation, which contributes to improving the efficiency of work.

{{quote 'author = shared working moments Andrey Galaktionov, CEO of VIANT the company.|Having market independently analyzed software solutions for warehouse automation and production, the commercial director of SPICE EXPERT compared several ON types. And he chose software from the company Kleverens"," since it already has a ready-made integration with 1C": UPP" and does not require large investments in implementation and integration. And since the need to optimize accounting, increase the productivity of line personnel and reduce the company's losses from overshoots and erroneous shipments was acute, the next step was the acquisition licenses of shipping documentation. Andrei himself was engaged in connecting Cloverens through COM to the test base and tried typical operations. But after testing, I realized that the software needs to be improved and adapted. And I turned to us for help, setting us the same tasks for modernizing production,}}

Decision

Sometimes buying data collection terminals and specialized software is not enough, since software improvements are needed to "make friends" with the software accounting system. And here either to understand independently all the nuances of integration, immersing yourself in the topic of changing the code and platform as deeply as possible, or to hire specialists at an outsider.

Key to success in delegation

My knowledge of the Kleverens platform was not enough for the full implementation of Warehouse 15. And I decided to connect a team of VIANT professionals. Integrators proposed to implement specific requests in stages and also to implement in stages, with which I fully agreed, told the commercial director of "SPICE EXPERT," Andrey Shilov.

As of January 2023, 5 SPICE EXPERT employees work with 3 Newland MT65 Beluga IV shipping documentation and two Honeywell EDA50K. The plans are to expand the terminal fleet - to purchase another 2-3 devices and connect a collective method of processing documents simultaneously with several. mobile computers

Project and Rework Milestones

Шаблон:Quote 'author = Andrey Galaktionov told.

In the Sales Order document, the integrators have modified the statuses, which change automatically depending on the result of the document processing on the shipping documentation:

• new,
• to the assembly,
• partially assembled,
• completed without errors,
• completed with errors.

A specially developed report on the analysis of orders in terms of status allows you to monitor the operation of the warehouse. VIANT specialists added data on actually collected goods in the form of a separate column to it, and adapted the movement of products for new details.

As soon as the first stage was completed and tested, we connected the shipping documentation to the real database. After that, the "SPICE EXPERT" storekeepers were able to try a new format of work: to create and process orders, but paying attention to the nuances of exchanges and movements. This made it possible to identify the unstable operation of mobile devices through the COM connection and connect the WEB, shared working moments Andrey Galaktionov.

When the assembly of goods with shipping documentation became familiar to storekeepers, integrators began to digitalize Operation Production. Previously, it was carried out in fact: they created the document manually in 1C and entered the indicators of the work of the baggers per shift.

The production technologist records the necessary accounting data - the batch number, the contractor - in a new document created on the shipping documentation. Then it scans a unique ShK identifying the storekeeper who performs the operation. That is, a mobile computer can be used by different employees within the same document. To do this, VIANT specialists developed a mechanism that connects 1C users with users of data collection terminals, and finalized the indication of the barcode directly in the document. When the production technologist completes the work at the shipping documentation, in 1C a fully filled and carried out "Production Report for Shift" is automatically formed.

The third stage was the automation of planned and inventories in fact. In the standard document, we added the statuses "Checked for shipping documentation," "To upload," "Do not upload." This made it possible to control the visibility of documents at the terminal. And in the operation on the mobile computer, the display of the planned quantity of the item was turned off, shared work points by VIANT CEO.

Small difficulties

Шаблон:Quote 'author = told Andrey Shilov.

VIANT specialists trained SPICE EXPERT storekeepers and helped with the installation of software. Phased testing and subsequent changes in customer requirements took a long time, as it was necessary to first check all the innovations in order to understand whether they were suitable or not.

Шаблон:Quote 'author = shared nuances Andrey.

Plans for the future

Initially, the SPICE EXPERT management was interested in processing capabilities for 1C: Manufacturing Enterprise Management, Android client applications and differences in the functionality of Cloverens licenses. The question of the need for new improvements in Warehouse 15 is still open.

The plans are to expand the Wi-Fi area to a wholesale warehouse. To assemble orders, accept raw materials and finished products from production, conduct inventories and quickly check the remains, we have enough 5 terminals. But we will probably expand the shipping documentation fleet with a software license. In general, the system is stable, there is enough functionality. The effect of the implementation is obvious, told Andrey Shilov.

Results

Digitalization is impossible without monitoring, settings, adjustments and updates that require human participation. Any process can be endlessly improved if it is effective and does not lose its relevance. Mobile computers allow you to remove part of the daily load from employees, and not lose in performance. And specialized software completely eliminates the need to perform operations manually.

Шаблон:Quote 'author = summed up the commercial director of SPICE EXPERT LLC, Andrey Shilov.