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Orbico and Mantis strengthen their partnership in Poland
06.09.2022
Orbico Group, a leading European distributor, is strengthening its international partnership with Mantis in Orbico Supply Poland by implementing the award-winning Logistics Vision Suite at its new Logistics Center near Warsaw.
In its newly constructed Logistics Center near Warsaw, Orbico Supply Poland consolidated the warehousing processes of its four subsidiaries (Orbico Beauty, Orbico Style, Orbico Salon Professional and NAVO) with 3PL contract logistics services offered to external customers, achieving significant decrease of operational costs. The company opted forMantis WMS Logistics Vision Suite(LVS) to manage andoptimize these unified warehouse operations for B2B, B2C and e-Commerce channelswithin the challenging period of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Orbico Supply Polandis a distributor of a wide range of global brands, covering a variety of market sectors such as Cosmetics, Consumer Goods, Food and Beverages (HoReCa), Toys, etc.
Orbico Supply Polandas a3PL providercovers a wide spectrum of services including warehousing (also for dangerous goods), co-packing, distribution and transport in the overall region of Central and Eastern Europe.
Orbico considering the already strong and successful partnership with Mantis, decided to implement Mantis’ LVS, award-winning WMS in combination with material handling equipment so to achieve its operational goals.
This new project isthe culmination of the long-lasting strategic partnership between Orbico and Mantis.LVShas been already implemented in several of the Group’s European countries such as Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Serbia, Moldova, etc.
In this new Distribution Center,LVS manages and optimizes all warehouse operationsincluding X-Docking, Multi-Depositors, co-packing, order pre-cubing, dangerous goods, parcel management and integration with several carriers, resulting to a significant increase of productivity and efficiency.To improve the picking rates, Mantis team implemented Aggregated picking. Consolidation was also implemented for goods receipt and storage as well as for orders coming from both manual and automated areas of the warehouse. UsingMantis LVS’s outstanding upgradability and fast onboarding of new clients / depositors,Orbico Supply Polandoptimized its logistics processes resulting to a high service level offering to its customers.
The expertise ofMantis, was proven a key factor for the success of the project especially integratingLVSwith a great variety of Material Handling equipment such as shuttle system, Goods-To-Man stations, conveyors, dispatch ramps, etc.
Shortly after the system’s go live,Orbico Supply Polandstarted achieving significant operational benefits, such as:
- Increase in warehouse productivity
- Premium order accuracy
- Reduction of planning costs
- Excellent customer service
»We maintain a strong and long-lasting business relationship with ourWMS vendor, Mantis, who is our strategic partner for deploying technology innovation in our warehouse operations. After a series of successful implementations of theMantis WMSat many of our Logistics Centers all over Europe, there is no doubt about its unique competitive advantages of adaptability and scalability which we exploit once more now in our centralized Logistics Center in Poland.«
Piotr Sędziak, Supply Director,Orbico Group
»Over the years we have forged a strategic partnership, by continuously enablingOrbicoto fulfill its ambitious plans to optimize, innovate and automate its Supply Chain operations across all countries. TheLVS implementation at Orbico Supply Poland, was our latest successful project of theMantis WMS, offering extended capabilities and seamless integration with a great variety of Material Handling Equipment.«
Nikos Silivestros, EMEA BU Director,Mantis