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Smeg selects StockSystem for Quality Control and managing different types of warehouses. , Smeg SPA, Logistics and Transport solutions, supply chain solutions
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Smeg SPA
Technology that decorates
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Company
Smeg, an excellent example of Made in Italy quality, manages design appliances in collaboration with architects of worldwide fame.
Group
Smeg is present throughout Europe with its own subsidiaries (France, England, Belgium, Spain, Germany and Holland) and in the rest of the world with representation offices in Northern and Eastern Europe, Russia, North and South America, the Middle and Far East, New Zealand and Australia and has an extensive network of partners.
The numbers that distinguish it include: 1,700 employees, sales of 429 million Euros in 2006 and three plants of 85,000, 45,000 and 20,000 m².
Replica Sistemi's solutions
Before deciding to rely on Replica Sistemi, Smeg managed products in the warehouse by manually entering data through a management system. Smeg's various warehouse-management and quality-control needs required a flexible system. StockSystem, thanks to parameterization, can adapt to all types of stocking to feed production lines, making the management of warehouse flows more efficient. Thanks to quality control, StockSystem allowed Smeg to continue to ensure the high production standards that have always expressed the company's philosophy.
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Project objectives
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To improve the level of service:
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by eliminating errors in acceptance, stocking, picking and shipment;
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by increasing speed and efficiency in filling orders;
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by immediately making know the allocation of the goods;
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by providing both control of warehouse activities and knowledge at a central level; by detailing the situation of the goods.
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Increasing productivity and reducing costs:
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reducing the routes and empty trips of carts and equipment;
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by reducing employee idle time while freeing them from paperwork and transcribing information;
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avoiding the suspension of warehouse normal operations to perform inventory;
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by eliminating unused spaces.
Problems
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Inhomogeneous materials (components, semi-finished MEC and SMA parts and refrigerator components);
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Quality control;
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Picking availability at the time of stocking;
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Three different warehouse types.
Methods of intervention
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Types of material analysis;
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Entry and stocking flows analysis;
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Picking and shipping flows analysis;
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Analysis of integration with central information system;
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Warehouse layout analysis.
Replica Sistemi products installeded
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StockSystem;
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70 RF terminals (PTC 960 SL - Telxon, HHP 955 - Honeywell).
Flow analysis
1. Goods receiving and quality control
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entry of packing list in AS/400;
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automatic data transfer to StockSystem;
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print StockSystem unloading list and package labels;
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package labeling with quantity check;
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close list;
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print balance;
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notify supplier of deltas found;
In this step, quality control is very important; damaged materials must be blocked by StockSystem at picking.
2. Stocking
Stocking is managed in the following ways:
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manual: the operator selects the (empty) cell for stocking;
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automatic: the system proposes the closest empty cell;
3. Picking
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connection with sales/production management;
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definition of picking requests through simulation;
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generation of picking lists (massive - single order);
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picking criteria (FIFO, expiration, etc.);
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transfer of materials to line warehouses on entire beds to optimize movements.
4. Rotating inventory
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transfer to Host of all movements occurring in the single locations where the material is stocked;
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can be done during normal working hours (no longer during summer or winter shutdowns).
Results obtained with StockSystem
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Control of material movements through the entire production cycle;
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Quality control;
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Identification and optimal arrangement of products in the warehouse;
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Adoption of FIFO or expiration date rules for material management;
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Guarantee of bringing new logistics personnel rapidly up to speed;
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Product Tracking & Tracing;
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Reduced inventory times;
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Reduced warehouse personnel;
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News
“Logistica Management”: Smeg controls its warehouses with StockSystem from Replica Sistemi
 quality control , fifo, warehouse management, shipments management , warehouse inventory, goods picking, rf, track batches, goods storage, traceability, transport a full load
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