KT.Team has created a fully automated product labelling system for FM Logistic

2023: Creation of an automated product labelling system

KT.Team has developed a solution for FM Logistic Corporation to help simplify the process of interaction between manufacturers and sellers with the State Information System for Monitoring Goods Turnover (GIS MT) as much as possible. This was announced on December 11, 2023 by CROC Cloud Services.

The solution is called Paradigma and is deployed on the basis of the CROC Cloud, which provides a reliable platform for its operation. Paradigma allows you to fully control the entire process of the life cycle of the labeled product from production to withdrawal from circulation. This increases the transparency of the process and reduces the burden on warehouse employees who do not need to manually manage all postings in GIS systems.

When the product labeling law came into force in 2019, we analyzed the market, learned that some companies were ready to transfer routine work with codes to outsourcing and saw this as a business opportunity. Initially, we tried to finalize the existing systems with other contractors, but the first iteration was unsuccessful. Then we decided to contact the proven partners - KT.Team and CROC, with Cloud services whom we worked on other projects. In 5 months we managed to create a prototype solution, and after 8 months we fully launched it. As a result, Paradigma allowed us to earn additional profit by selling the service to our partners, "said Jonathan Volozhchik, Director of Information Technology, Processes and Innovation at FM Logistic Russia.

As of December 2023, FM Logistic only in Russia has 22 warehouse complexes with a total area of ​ ​ more than 816,000 sq.m., and the number of customers exceeds 1000 companies. The range of most FM Logistic partners includes products that are subject to labeling. The task of the project was to create an IT system that will work daily around the clock and process tens of millions of codes at the same time. At the same time, each code carries out many operations that are recorded in the system: it is scanned every time for any operation inside the warehouse, wholesale or retail, etc. Working with such a data array requires a large amount of computing power, so the system is built on the basis of the CROC Cloud, which allows you to quickly scale the platform during peak loads. In addition, the guaranteed SLA of the CROC Cloud is 99.95%, which means an acceptable downtime of no more than 22 minutes per month. In the first year of operation alone, more than 25 million units of goods were marked with the help of Paradigma. The product constantly evolves and increases the number of product groups with which it works: from perfume products to tires and tires.

We understood how important it was to create a stable system, since each failure could cost FM Logistic and its partners both financial losses and legal liability. Therefore, we went to FM Logistic warehouses many times, spent hundreds of hours consulting with employees, starting with warehouse workers, ending with direction managers, studied the main and dozens of invested business processes. Ultimately, all these efforts allowed us to create a quality IT product, "said Anton Kopkin, CEO of KT.Team.

The system is based on a group of services, each of which is responsible for a separate operation. Thanks to this, FM Logistic customers can use the service both in full and in part. For example, the company labels goods on its own, while if desired, it can upload codes to Paradigma and entrust FM Logistic with further tracking of goods from movements in the warehouse, until the goods are withdrawn from circulation.

In this project, the CROC Cloud Services team is responsible for the constant availability of the service, since the logistics business does not tolerate downtime, since this directly affects the quality of the services provided to end customers. Therefore, we helped the customer build such an infrastructure in the cloud that meets all the requirements for system reliability and fault tolerance. In addition, it is the cloud platform that allows you to ensure a high speed of deployment of such voluminous systems, as well as increase resources if necessary, - said Sergey Zinkevich, director of the CROC Cloud Services business unit.