Bread Saburovo (EME.WMS)

2024: EME.WMS Implementation

About Customer

Tula Bakery is a separate division of the Khleb Saburovo company (agro-industrial holding Agropolis Saburovo). Shipments - 1560 tons of products with a limited shelf life monthly. Timely delivery of bakery products to federal chains, municipal institutions and retail stores is as important as possible for the enterprise. The company's warehouse is located in Tula.

Warehouse Process Automation

Problems before the start of the automation project:

• A large number of manual operations when shipping in stock.
• Errors in the assembly of orders.
• Distribution of data and tasks between different employees of the enterprise.
• Low speed of work of warehouse employees, lack of control over the processes being performed.
• No single information space for warehouse management.
• Failure to comply with the delivery time of part of the product to consumers.
• Suboptimal use of storage spaces.

The solution to these problems was the automation of warehouse processes, the introduction of a professional warehouse management system EME.WMS, and the organization of planning for the shipment of finished products.

Within the framework of the project, it was also necessary to work out the automated generation of reports and analytics, to integrate EME.WMS with the customer's corporate accounting system.

To automate the distribution of orders to the trays and shipment, EME specialists proposed a non-standard solution - the use of PUT-TO-LIGHT technology.

PTL system

What is PUT-TO-LIGHT?

PUT-TO-LIGHT is a system for optimizing the process of forming and selecting orders using "light prompts." The system allows you to increase the efficiency of the warehouse by completely eliminating errors in the assembly of orders and reducing costs from incorrect picking.

The storage cells of the product are equipped with backlit screens. When scanning a unique cargo item with a product, the screens of those cells where you need to put the product, indicating the required quantity, light up. A warehouse worker can quickly and easily distribute goods into bins.

How does it work at the Bread Saburovo warehouse?

After the goods arrive in the warehouse from suppliers or from production, EME.WMS automatically checks in and places them in a virtual cell.

The system calculates orders, generates waves and reserves bins in the "streets" (a certain part of the warehouse) for further placement of goods for orders. Each cell corresponds to a particular order/outlet. The operator in the pre-selection zone scans the barcode of the product or selects this product on the pre-selection screen and forms a unique cargo location.

On a specific "street" on the final selection screen, scans the unique cargo space formed earlier and selects the color by which it will perform the layout. Until the layout for this cargo place is completed, it is impossible to choose the same color on this "street."

On the "street," certain screens light up above the cells with the selected color, indicating the quantity of the item for each cell. The operator places the goods in the cells according to their color and confirms the layout by pressing the corresponding button on the "final selection" screen.

Implementation features

The introduction of a unique technology in the warehouse required considerable effort from both the EME team and the customer team. First of all, it was necessary to change the current processes of the warehouse, train employees, and conduct preliminary testing of equipment. Particular attention was paid to the task of integrating EME.WMS with the display system.

The project was implemented using remote launch technology. Thanks to the clear functionality of EME.WMS, the flexibility of settings, the proven methodology, the customer implemented independently with the remote support of EME specialists.

Implementation results

As a result of the project implementation, the following processes were automated:

• Registration of goods in the area of acceptance and finished products.
• Distribution of orders by wave and cell.
• Preliminary and final planning.
• Layout of goods on trays.
• Shipment of generated orders.

In addition, reports on the work of typesetters, work statistics have been developed. Printed forms of labels and sheets for drivers have been developed. Integration with 1C UPT is performed.

The results of automation of the warehouse "Bread Saburovo" are impressive:

• The number of human errors is reduced to almost zero.
• Reduced the time for the export of collected finished products to the gate (to cars) from 20-30 minutes to 1-2 minutes.
• Increased level of control of shipment at all stages.
• The use of warehouse space is optimized by 10%.

Cooperation between EME and Bread Saburovo continues.

The project partner is KORUS Consulting.