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Other Warehouses Dream of Such Results': Solvo.WMS Shines at Warehouses of Atria Russia

01.09.2017

A Solvo.WMS implementation project was completed in the autumn of 2015 for a ready-made goods warehouse as well as production facilities of Atria Russia

A Solvo.WMS implementation project was completed in the autumn of 2015 for a ready-made goods warehouse as well as production facilities of Atria Russia, which is the leader on the meat and sausage products in Saint Petersburg. Its brands include Pit-Produkt, Atria, Sybilla, Casademont. In Moscow, the company is also represented by the KampoMos brand.

Atria Russia has two meat processing plants in the Leningrad region, in the towns of Sinyavino and Gorelovo, where the ready-made product warehouse are located.

One of the major reasons for system implementation was the obsolete WMS system that was no longer being supported at the Atria warehouse. As a result, the company opted for a state-of-the-art WMS system from SOLVO, which has extensive experience in automating processes at production warehouses and food production facilities specifically.

SOLVO was tasked to optimize the technological process including the automation of product marking during production.

One of the main challenges was to implement a module integrating Solvo.WCS equipment with marking equipment from Bizerba. Special attention as paid to integration since the weight of the products is controlled in three ways:

  • First, pallets upon release from production are weighed.

  • Then, the pallet is weighed at the warehouse with the help of the stationary work place with the Solvo.WMS manager interface.

  • A third weight control process is also possible.

System implementation was carried out in two steps:

Step 1. Launch of marking areas for ready-made goods at the production facility in Sinyavino and Gorelovo

Here the Solvo.WMS was integrated with Bizerba equipment. The system receives data about the product items, including production date and the unique weight of each carton, as soon as they’re released from production. Meanwhile, the fleet of Bizerba equipment at Atria Russia is relatively large, which required the SOLVO team to develop various scenarios for users interacting with the system. Weight control is performed for already created containers along with all of enclosed cartons when transferring material responsibility from production to the warehouse.

Step 2. Implementation of Solvo.WMS at the ready-made goods warehouse in Gorelovo

Specificities of the warehouse and its goods were taken into account during the implementation process. One key nuance was the high turnover of goods since they’re only stored for a few hours at the warehouse prior to shipping after they’re received from production. Working with the individual weight of each carton is also supported.

Automated processes:

Receiving

ASN (advanced Shipping Notice) technology is actively used when receiving goods from production at the warehouse. Pallets are weighed on scales at the production facility while Solvo.WMS automatically created ASN loads on the pallet. For this, the warehouse employee uses a double row radio terminal (RDT). Weight control at any processing area is also implemented as well: the technology enables to compare weight from the system and the floor scales, based on which the WMS will allow the cargo to either proceed to the next stage or not if any discrepancies are found.

The receiving operator’s work station, which includes a PC with a touch screen monitor and a bluetooth scanner was also automated. During receiving, loads are received from production (with weight control) as well as from other areas based on a waybill with transfer of cargo to the buffer zone and subsequent weight control.

Putaway

The warehouse uses various cargo storage technologies at various processing stages. Products are put away to storage in two stages. First, the products enter the ready-made goods warehouse for pallet storage. Then goods are stored in floor storage zones with pallet and carton gravitational racks.

Order picking

Paperless technology as well as picking via radio terminal or combined methods were implemented for order assembly. The latter makes it possible to use paper technology with subsequent assembly control using the RDT. All pick lists are scanned along with all cartons assembled based on paper. Meanwhile, Solvo.WMS automatically scans cartons checking whether they are in line with the characteristics or quantity in the order line. In the given case, the user does not have to view the RDT screen when performing this check. The system will notify the user about any errors with a sound signal, known as Beep Picking.

Results

In result, careful testing and functionality tweaks made it possible to complete implementation in the shortest time. In particular, no losses or disruptions occurred when migrating the system from the test phase to commercial operation.

»We did not experience any disruptions during migration from one software to the other. Not a single kilogram of products was lost. Other warehouses dream of such results, which we achieved at our warehouse after implementing Solvo.WMS«, noted Yuriy Popov, head of warehouse logistics at Atria Russia.



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