Enterprise Warehouse Management System

Customer: Leading Clothing Distributer and Reseller

Critical Issue: Customer has a unique process for managing their warehouse including manually intensive and reverse logistics processes.  Customer had a failed engagement with a previous vendor and needed a partner that could leverage the existing investment and extend the system to quickly achieve tangible results.

Reasons: The Customer processes are highly proven, yet require significant manual tracking of information and do not allow for transactional processing of inventory and shipments.  Original solution design was more of a batch processing model and did not support the rapid pace of their business.

Vision:  Utilizing a phased approach to target specific business issues, introduce transactional components into their system and business process to improve their ability to provide additional services and faster turnaround for their customers.  

AETEA Provided: Phased delivery of system functions focused on increasing volumes and reducing costs.  The first phase of the project was to implement a mobile scanning solution for their inventory management, as well as provide enhanced reporting on inventory.  The second phase of the project was the development of additional modules including Shipping, Logistics, Purchase Orders and Order Management.  These modules were developed as both web-based solutions as well as a Smart Client Kiosk for use on the warehouse floor.

Results: This solution has reduced their inventory staff by ½ and has provided twice the amount of productivity.  Volumes of clothing units processed per day have increased over 100% allowing the customer to take on additional business from their customers.