The aim of the project was to introduce a comprehensive warehouse logistics management for the company twd operating in the furniture business including e-commerce. The Smart Industry system EMANS provides picking management of customer orders and their subsequent completion for dispatch and distribution within 24 hours (Slovakia) and 48 hours (international orders) from a catalog of 18,000 items stored in a warehouse of 7,000 m2.
Project Assignment
- Assure effective slotting process
- Assure quick and error-free process of order dispatching
- Assure precise and timely data in the company´s ERP system
- Optimization of warehouse capacity
Implementation
- Implementation of Warehouse Management System (WMS) module of the Smart Industry system EMANS
- Deployment of an in-house network of internet of things (IoT) and internet of services (IoS)
- Implementation of digital twin technology
- Integration of WMS module to already utilized company´s ERP system
- Standardization and formalization of warehouse operations
- Dynamic order picking strategies
- Deployment of autonomous algorithms (AI) for intelligent inventory slotting and positioning based on actual item turnover
Result
- Optimization of order-picking processes
- Increase in customer order volume
- Effective utilization of available human resources and labor performance
- Elimination of non-productive time and downtimes
- Reduction of order-picking cycles
- Elimination of errors in the process of order completion
- Effective utilization of warehouse space
- Fast inventory check
- Real-time reporting - turnover tracking and overall labor effectiveness
EMANS
„We managed to smoothly handle a 100% increase in the number of picked orders while operating inventory of almost 60,000 types of unique items with EMANS WMS. Double the order volume is picked by the same number of employees without a significant change in processes and handling technologies. This is also why we deployed EMANS WMS in our foreign branch“
Igor Patráš, Sales Director
TWD
