Challenge
Stolz deals with various different suppliers for around 2'000 items. One supplier delivered directly to three Kanban systems, located in the warehouse and the production. The other suppliers delivered to the main warehouse with an order or a good receiving. Thus, the warehouse team delivered most of the components from the main warehouse to the production with production orders.
The main challenges were:
- No visibility of the stock in production
- If a part was missing in production, the user walked from production to the warehouse desk
- Need for some space to increase the production line
- Too many different suppliers
Bossard's solution
- Installation of 2'500 scales : 1'000 in the warehouse, 1'500 in the production lines.
- Installation of 3 SmartLockers
- Deployment of Last Mile Management
- Use SCS Enterprise
Customer's benefit
- Only 1 major supplier
- A global tool for all items (hardware and software)
- A total transparency of the stock everywhere in the plant
- No more walk from the operators to the main warehouse
- Savings: 5'000 hours/year
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