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WMS maGistor® by A-SIS, key to logistics development for Sun City

18.12.2017

Keen to modernise its logistics processes in order to ensure ever more efficient levels of service to its clients, Sun City, a key player in the licensed mode for nearly 25 years, recently equipped itself with WMS maGistor® from the supply chain logistics solution provider A-SIS (a Division Savoye brand).

Among the top three European textile product firms, Sun City depends on its three French warehouses located in Amiens, Pierrelaye and Tremblay-en-France to service all its wholesale and major retail clients, including the Carrefour and Auchan brands. Every year, 800 containers coming from China pass through its main site in Tremblay-en-France with 16,000 m2 of space. A total of nearly 4,000 different items and 9,000 palettes are received, stored and distributed there in summer and in winter, making the organisation subject to a very high degree of seasonality.

To assure the best response to these specific constraints, Sun City, already equipped with an Oracle ERP, decided to modernise its operational processes by acquiring a warehouse management tool able to optimise its processes as well as its service levels. Following a call for tenders issued in 2015, A-SIS and its WMS maGistor® were selected to carry out this vast modernisation project: »The solution proposed by A-SIS seemed to us to be the best in terms of costs and efficiency. A-SIS has also proven its ability to adapt smoothly to our standards,« explained Alexandre Thouroude, assistant operation manager at Sun City. So Sun City has chosen Tremblay-en-France as its platform to roll out implementation of WMS maGistor® in spring 2016. »Throughout the project, the A-SIS teams have managed to meet our needs and our evolving specifications. They have been able to come up with specific developments and to adapt efficiently to meet our demands,« says Alexandre Thouroude. »We chose to roll out our WMS maGistor® during a peak work period in order to benefit as quickly as possible from its management features. This worked out well because we have since seen major gains in terms of reliability and productivity,« continues Alexandre Thouroude.

A double satisfaction because 5 months later, Sun City also relies on WMS maGistor® to insource its BtoC business: »After implementing WMS on the Tremblay-en-France site, we quickly realised the capacity of maGistor® to handle e-commerce flows and individual products. We have therefore re-insourced this function, which was previously outsourced to a specialist supplier. For the moment we are very pleased with it,« asserts Alexandre Thouroude. Convincing results that have also led Sun City to continue its partnership with A-SIS, which is soon to implement WMS maGistor® on a second site belonging to the firm in Pierrelaye.



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