The Challenges

As a food manufacturing company, lot traceability with multiple units of measure combined with bin management presented many challenges in managing the supply chain process. They process and ships approximately 1,000 packages per day with a target of completing all orders within one business day.

Inventory visibility and accuracy is paramount for them as it strives to meet its shipping commitments.

The Solution

Micro DataNet integrated ADCS technology with Microsoft Dynamics NAV and expanded the WMS functionality to include the following enhancements.

Inventory tracking – ADCS hand held scanners have been deployed to expedite the order processing sequence. Micro DataNet has expanded inventory visibility to include viewing and reporting by warehouse, bin, unit of measure and lot. New customer orders are automatically allocated to the unit of measure level.

Advanced Kitting Management - As a specialty supplier, often times kits are created for special events or for standard products with variable components. Allocation management will monitor component availability and issue Production Orders or Purchase Orders to fulfill requirements.

Outbound Warehouse - Their Warehouse managers can decide picking priority by shipment date and can mass allocate, or un-allocate sales orders. With one click of a button, warehouse manages can create a movement request to “Wave Pick” required quantity to picking bins.

After creating picking ticket, warehouse managers can print out all UPS or FEDEX shipping labels for an order in advance. When a warehouse employee picks a box, he can affix the shipping label to the box and complete the shipping process.

Advanced ADCS Picking Solution - MDN’s ADCS picking solution can direct warehouse employees to pick using an optimized picking route, including FEFO (First Expiration, First Out) methods. Using advanced 2D barcodes, which embeds multiple fields of information, such as item number, lot number, expiration date, description, we can achieve greater picking efficiencies including independent picking in different zones concurrently.

The Results

With Micro DataNet’s unique Supply Chain solution, They are able to efficiently pick and ship more than 1,000 packages a day. 99% of the sales orders can be fulfilled within one business day. Order to invoice turn around time is reduced to one business day.