"Chernogolovka" switched to the new generation of Axelot WMS

2024: Implementation of Fifth Generation Axelot WMS

On February 6, 2024, Axelot announced that Chernogolovka had switched to the following AXELOT WMS generation. The introduction of the fifth generation AXELOT WMS system at Chernogolovka Group's warehouse made it possible to optimize the quality of customer service of the group, the speed of processing requests, carefully plan batches for shipment taking into account the remaining shelf life, optimize business processes and eliminate critical errors in the work of warehouse personnel.

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As reported, Chernogolovka Group of Companies as of January 2024 owns 12 production facilities, more than 20 brands and more than 300 products. The products are delivered to all regions of Russia and the CIS, exported to 26 countries of the world. The group's plants are among the most modern on the market, and the production base corresponds to all international technological standards and environmental requirements. Warehouse logistics is not inferior in terms of manufacturability. Modern equipment and technologies are used at the warehouses of the group of companies, current solutions for automation of the warehouse are introduced.

To modernize the warehouse of finished products in the Moscow region, the company's management chose the fifth generation warehouse management system AXELOT WMS. Previously, the warehouse also operated under the control of software developed by AXELOT, however, the previous generation of WMS could no longer give the company the necessary functionality, performance and resources for development.

The project was implemented in a warehouse with an area of ​ ​ 24,000 square meters. m. With a round-the-clock operation, the number of personnel per shift reaches 85 people. The range of goods in the warehouse has 890 SKU, and the number of storage places is more than 40,000. The warehouse uses mezzanine structures, automated and front storage systems, several areas are identified, including return storage areas, sampling, acceptance, shipping areas, and the area of ​ ​ finished orders. The import and export of products is provided by 36 gates.

Such a large-scale warehouse economy requires a careful approach to automating processes. Already at the pre-design inspection stage, it was clear to both the customer and the contractor that the standard implementation technology could not be used here. The project was implemented using design technology, the entire range of work, including user training and commissioning, was implemented in 10 months.

Due to the peculiarities of the production and business processes of the group and the abundance of specific operations, the system was largely adapted to the needs of the manufacturer. When you perform shipping documentation conversion operations, the system now checks the media capacity and prevents you from recalculating more than the capacity. When moving the material, the vehicle capabilities are monitored both by the number of placed storage places and by the lifting capacity.

Reservation of the place for the order is performed before the start of the selection, taking into account the optimization of the location of the assembled order in the area of the finished orders based on the total number of storage places planned for assembly. The inventory management of multiple storage locations is implemented within the same information base so that the selection of the shipping location is performed on the WMS side.

Gate planning in the flight was set up - after the vehicle arrives at the warehouse, the gate is determined automatically depending on the specified shipping area. Selection to the shipping gate is completed after their assignment to the shipping order flight. When the flight is transferred to the status "At the gate," a list of only those gates at which the installation of this model of the vehicle is allowed is displayed.

Acceptance of planned returns from customers to the shipping documentation is performed automatically, and the reason for return for each received storage object is recorded. It also provides for the creation of documents for acceptance of the unscheduled return of the client from the shipping documentation by the document number "Shipment Plan" of the corporate information system.

According to representatives of Axelot to the TAdviser portal, 89 mobile and 9 stationary workplaces were automated at the Chernogolovka Group of Companies warehouse as a result of the project. The implemented functionality significantly influenced the level of quality of shipment planning, reduced the time for preparing orders, the period of finding customer vehicles in the warehouse, and ensured monitoring of returns for further analysis of their causes. As part of the project, the ability to plan the selection of a batch according to the remaining shelf life was expanded. In the Shipment Order, several lines can now be created with one storage object, but different rules for the selection of the remaining shelf life (OSG). OSG can be transmitted in the range, i.e. with the setting "Minimum OSG, in%" and "Maximum OSG, in%." When transferring the shipment date to later dates, the parameters of the OSG also change - selection for tasks for incorrect OSG is canceled.

The introduction of AXELOT WMS made it possible to automate the warehouse of Chernogolovka Group of Companies without reducing production capacity, avoid loss of temporary and financial resources, optimize the system of storage, selection, shipment and acceptance of goods.