Ariadna Martinez Ibañez
On the one hand, application of management warehousing systems is synonym of competitivity and, most important, a guaranteed solution for all logistics processes that may affect directly to productivity.
WMS is asoftware application that allows the centralized management of tasks, such as the tracking of inventory levels and the location of stocks.
On the other hand,as we saw, the supply chain of a company is the planning, implementation and effective control of all the processes linking suppliers, manufacturing plants, storage centers and distributors.
They nowadays areso related that contracting WMS solutions for the supply chain’s management is an indispensable investment to achieve a successful business.
A good example for the good implementation of WMS is Ceresita Industries,a leading chilean company that sells paints for building facades, as well as for decorative, industrial, marine and sanitary fields.
They reason why Ceresita needed aWMS was raised in the search for a significant improvement in the logistics processes of its warehouse. Cresita is part of the most important holding in Latin America in its field, together with Tricolor and Sherwin Williams.
According to estimates made in 2009, the paint market moved around US $ 200 million per year.35% of households acquire Ceresita the firm is the protagonist, with 22% of the market. It was then when they saw the need for a good WMS project that would take better care of efficiency andreduce costs by generating economies of scale through the optimization of labor. They wanted to be able to respond in a competitive and agile manner to the needs of the business and commercial area.
“To continue being number one, we had to be ahead in each of the areas of the business, which is why we believe that with tools such as the WMS Solution we can continue to improve in terms of customer service, response times and control of the associated costs “, commented Edgardo Zamora, Logistics Manager of Industrias Ceresita SA.
At the operation level, it has generated very positive impacts such as:
– Greater control of the operation: you can know the tasks that have to be done in an exact way and plan the resources according to this.
– Traceability in operations as workers’ responsibility has increased
– Visibility through reports and indicators generated with the WMS business intelligence tool.
– Customer Service Area: dispatch errors were reduced drastically.
This, at the end, has helped them with their supply chain and a proof it is that a year later, they opened a new warehouse in Perú and implemented the same techniques learned to successfully achieve good sales and service.
“For Ceresita this project was a first step towards the improvement of operations, which will be replicated in the distribution centers where the different brands offered are managed, seeking to maximize the main benefits obtained up to now: inventory management in real time, control of the operations and decrease in the errors of dispatch “, assured Mónica Rueda, Consultant of Solutions of TLA.
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