Success Stories
Warehouse Management for a Fortune 500 US Designer and Marketer of Apparel, Footwear and Accessories
The customer, a Fortune 500 multi-billion dollar US major, is a designer and marketer of branded apparel, footwear, and accessories.
Area of Engagement
Warehouse management of Warehouse Management System
Customer Need
The customer acquired companies as a strategy for inorganic growth but did not have a standard warehousing package, across the divisions, which created the following problems:
- Barrier to topline growth
- Non uniform warehouse practices
- Multiple ERP interfaces resulting in redundant data feeds
- Data inconsistency and integrity issues
- High maintenance and enhancement costs
Solution
Implemented standard Warehouse management system, (PkMS) which has robust inbound inventory, fulfillment, and transportation modules, across their group divisions in a phased manner. Some of the modules implemented are:
- Inbound
- Receiving, RF functions
- Inventory Management
- Stock Locator, Task Management, Physical Count, Cycle Count
- Fulfillment
- Inventory Allocation, Wave management, Picking and Packing, Pack & Hold, Outbound functions
- Transportation
- Freight Management, Transportation Management and Documentation, Log Pro version 7.0.1, System Administration and Configuration, COM Link, Activity reporting
- Custom PkMS Options
- In-house modifications with queries and programs for various PkMS functionalities
Value Delivered
The value delivered through the engagement:
- Major reduction in chargebacks
- Better inventory control
- Dynamic routing of retail and catalog orders
- 300% rise in productivity for customer order execution with a reduced shipping window
- Added functionality to build and break pre-packs within warehouses
- Increased shipping floor efficiency
- Multi-division processing from single warehouse
- VICS compliance
- Can process single and bulk replenishment orders
- Flexibility to handle different types of inventory
- Routing DSDC orders to customers regional DCs
