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Case Study: Revolutionizing Warehouse Operations for Global Manufacturing Client

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Client Overview

Our global manufacturing client, a market leader in industrial lubrication products, faced significant challenges in managing parts across their numerous facilities worldwide. Manual processes and lack of visibility on material availability led to inefficiencies and poor production capacity, hindering their competitiveness.

Instant KPIs review
Inventory tracking
Cloud-based
The challenge

The client struggled with manual warehouse management processes, resulting in limited control over inventory across multiple sites. They lacked real-time visibility, which impacted their ability to meet shipping dates and maintain optimal inventory levels. To improve their operations, they sought a solution that could streamline their warehouse processes and provide comprehensive inventory management capabilities.

40%
40% productivity increase
99%
99% reduction in paper process
0%
0 business impact during implementation
The solution

Introducing WrxFlo's Warehouse Management System (WMS), a tailored solution designed to meet the unique needs of our client. The WMS provided a centralized platform for managing warehouses, racks, and inventory, empowering the client with enhanced control and efficiency. Here's a breakdown of the key features and benefits:

  1. Warehouse Configuration: The WMS allows easy setup of warehouses, including the creation of racks, lines, and locations, providing a visual representation of the warehouse structure.
  2. Kanban Management: The system supports kanban management, enabling the client to track inventory using kanban cards. The client can customize and organize their kanbans based on their specific requirements.
  3. Integration with Other Systems: The WMS seamlessly integrates with other systems, such as order systems and analytics platforms, through API connections. This facilitates smooth data exchange and synchronization, enhancing overall operational efficiency.
  4. Inventory Management: The WMS offers comprehensive inventory management features. Users can upload parts, set descriptions, and define measurements. The system ensures accurate tracking of stock levels and provides automatic restocking based on predefined thresholds.
  5. Parts Consumption and QR Scanning: Users can consume parts by scanning QR codes, which decrement the inventory accordingly. The system tracks usage and triggers restocking when inventory reaches predetermined levels, ensuring continuous availability of essential parts.
  6. Reporting and Analytics: The WMS provides various reports, including a table report displaying stock information and a visual KPI dashboard. Users can gain insights into high-value items, low runners, stock values, and more. Additional reports can be developed with the assistance of the BI team.
  7. User-Friendly Interface: The WMS offers an intuitive user interface, accessible through laptops, Android devices, or any preferred device. Users can easily navigate and perform tasks, simplifying their daily operations.

Our own “WrxFlo revolution” has the potential and trajectory, to establish and maintain our place as a “leader” in our global group… A paperless, real-time reporting workplace is now a reality.

CEO
Manufacturing Firm

Our team has issued every part in stock for this week. Now, our team is working on next week's orders.... This is the power of technology.

Director of Engineering
MedTech Firm

We are very happy to pass our TQM audit. The auditor was very happy to see that we had such an impressive system in place. I would like to say thank you to the WrxFlo team for super support and helping us develop this impressive system.

Global Director
Global Supply Chain 
The result

Implementing WrxFlo's Warehouse Management System revolutionized the client's warehouse operations and yielded significant benefits:

  1. Enhanced Efficiency: The customized WMS streamlined processes, optimizing inventory management and increasing overall efficiency.
  2. Real-time Visibility: The live system provided real-time visibility of warehouse operations, enabling stakeholders to monitor inventory and make informed decisions from any location.
  3. Improved Inventory Control: The WMS facilitated accurate inventory tracking, ensuring optimal stock levels, reducing stockouts, and minimizing production delays.
  4. Actionable Insights: The system's reporting capabilities and KPI dashboard empowered the warehouse team with actionable insights, facilitating proactive decision-making and process improvements.
  5. Scalability and Future Expansion: The WMS accommodated multiple warehousing locations, making it an ideal solution for scaling the client's operations globally.

By leveraging WrxFlo's Warehouse Management System, our client successfully transformed their warehouse operations, overcoming manual inefficiencies, and gaining better control over their inventory. The implemented solution propelled them towards improved productivity, increased customer satisfaction, and enhanced competitiveness in their industry.

 

Want to learn more about how WrxFlo's Warehouse Management System can revolutionize your warehouse operations? Contact us today to schedule a free demo. Our team will be delighted to showcase the features and benefits of our tailored solution, tailored to meet your specific needs. Take the first step towards streamlining your warehouse processes and optimizing inventory management. Reach out to us now and embark on the path to operational excellence.

Bringing supply chain compliance to a global leader in food & beverage industry

Manufacturing
Global Manufacturing Group
Multi site
The client

Our client is a global leader in the food, beverage, health biosciences industry in Ireland, the UK and Europe. They have been in existence for over 130 years and play a vital role in the pharmaceutical supply chain.  They offer differentiated ingredients to solutions for customers of all sizes, offering key tastes, texture, scent and probiotic categories.

The challenge

Our client had a large paper-based solution in place. In order to comply with the FDA and regulatory requirements, our client needed to transform its business and needed to introduce a paperless system.

The existing system also presented many challenges across their supply chain, including:

 

  •  No overview of time taken to manage compliance activities.
  • No visibility on end-to-end supply chain processes.
  • Unable to track RFID tracking from warehouse to door to door.
  •  A highly administrative process that was very dependent on paper.
The solution

Streamlined compliance processes and allows for issue remediation

WrxFlo connected data sources across its end-to-end supply chain supplying a cloud-based compliance management solution. It has optimized the business, creating efficiencies and reducing costs.

The solution has provided:

·      An overview on compliance and control monitoring of regulatory changes and requirements.

·      It has improved visibility on all supply chain processes.

·         It has streamlined compliance processes and allows for issue        remediation.

 

 

 

 

Our own “WrxFlo revolution” has the potential and trajectory, to establish and maintain our place as a “leader” in our global group… A paperless, real-time reporting workplace is now a reality.

CEO
Manufacturing Firm

Our team has issued every part in stock for this week. Now, our team is working on next week's orders.... This is the power of technology.

Director of Engineering
MedTech Firm

We are very happy to pass our TQM audit. The auditor was very happy to see that we had such an impressive system in place. I would like to say thank you to the WrxFlo team for super support and helping us develop this impressive system.

Global Director
Global Supply Chain 
The result

WrxFlo implemented the following:

 

·         The software can spot and highlight risks with real-time dashboards.

·         It enables our client to avoid compliance violations and penalties.

·         It has improved communication via teams and collaboration.

·         It has improved business decision making via real-time overview of dashboard.

Implementing a Work Management solution for a leading Construction Company

Manufacturing
Construction Industry
multi SITE
The client

Based in the Construction Industry, our client is one of Ireland’s and the UK’s leading timber frame processing companies, it spans almost 20 years of making timber frames for houses, homes (both one-off and in volume), hotels, apartment blocks, care homes, schools and other public buildings.

The challenge

To automate and harness project data

Our client aimed to digitalise and transform company processes to access automate and harness project data. Our client reported issues including a high level of manual processes, that they aimed to decrease, to improve on budget and profit efficiencies. With WrxFlo’s digital solution in place it would help the client to manage the lifecycle of each construction project, more effectively.

Our client’s current system was manual and outdated and presented many challenges for the client, including:

  • Limited management and KPI reports
  • Poor visibility on how each project was performing real-time.
  • Poor management of CRM, Sales, business & Design of each project
  • Limited tracking of project goals to remain in budget and to deliver the project on time.
  • Overuse of paper
  • Improvements were needed on our client maintaining regulatory compliance
Leading Construction Company
Over 100 employees 
The client needed a paperless system accessible everywhere
The solution

Work Management Solution

WrxFlo created a real-time dashboard work managment solution, integrated into one platform for the lifecycle of the clients construction projects.

The WrxFlo solutions:

  • Key metrics
  • A paperless solution
  • Visibility of budget management
  • Automation of the design process and reduction of design issues
  •  A decrease in manual steps
  • An understanding of project goals
  • Less miscommunication
  • An increase of safety culture
  • Visibility of sales orders

Our own “WrxFlo revolution” has the potential and trajectory, to establish and maintain our place as a “leader” in our global group… A paperless, real-time reporting workplace is now a reality.

CEO
Manufacturing Firm

Our team has issued every part in stock for this week. Now, our team is working on next week's orders.... This is the power of technology.

Director of Engineering
MedTech Firm

We are very happy to pass our TQM audit. The auditor was very happy to see that we had such an impressive system in place. I would like to say thank you to the WrxFlo team for super support and helping us develop this impressive system.

Global Director
Global Supply Chain 
The result

Increased productivity, efficiencies & delivery

As a result of implementing the WrxFlo platform, the client has:

  •  Improvements on regulatory compliance
  •  Increased productivity on each project
  •  Improved budget management
  •  Shorter project completion times
  •   Reduction in risk management and safety breaches
  •  Increase in safety health for construction workers

Implementing a paperless solution for a Manufacturing group

Manufacturing
IRELAND
SINGLE SITE
The client

Delivering excellence for the water and effluent industry throughout Ireland

Our client was founded in 1981 and are leading manufacturers supplying water treatment products to both the private and public sector. They offer a range of primary coagulants, coagulant aids and odour control chemicals to the water and effluent industry throughout Ireland. Our client complies with the highest standards of health, safety and environmental management. They are committed to continuous improvements and to offering excellent technical services to its customers.

The challenge

Going paperless to reduce human error & improve efficiency

This client has over 40 drivers delivering products in multiple locations. Paper processes were negatively impacting the productivity and profitability of the company. Our client aimed to reduce and eliminate the outdated paper processes.

As with all manufacturing companies, maintaining high standards around quality and compliance was a high priority.

  • Visibility issues on product status and tracking
  • Negative impact on productivity
  • Difficult to report on quality metrics
  • Challenging to manage day to day operations
  • Reporting was administrative intensive and delayed
  • Issues with acheiving regulatory compliance
Irish owned Manufacturing
Almost 200 employees 
The client needed a paperless system accessible everywhere
The solution

Improved automation

WrxFlo created a real-time dashboard, integrated into one platform. WrxFlo has eliminated paperwork and provided a paperless solution.

The WrxFlo solutions:

  • Management has a live view of orders
  • Allows daily meetings that report real-time data
  • The solution allows employees to see delivery information every step of the way.
  • Our client has also achieved regulatory compliance via the system, previously this was not possible.
  • Automated information increases the accuracy of each report

Our own “WrxFlo revolution” has the potential and trajectory, to establish and maintain our place as a “leader” in our global group… A paperless, real-time reporting workplace is now a reality.

CEO
Manufacturing Firm

Our team has issued every part in stock for this week. Now, our team is working on next week's orders.... This is the power of technology.

Director of Engineering
MedTech Firm

We are very happy to pass our TQM audit. The auditor was very happy to see that we had such an impressive system in place. I would like to say thank you to the WrxFlo team for super support and helping us develop this impressive system.

Global Director
Global Supply Chain 
The result

Increased productivity, efficiencies & delivery

As a result of implementing the WrxFlo platform, the client has:

  • The solution streamlines the time-consuming task of delivery dockets & scanning.
  • Increased productivity by providing real-time insights.
  • The solution has increased efficiency across the company.
  • Improved customer delivery performance & satisfactory.

WrxFlo Financial Management Tracking

Logistics
GLOBAL
ManUfacturing
The client

Our client is a global manufacturing client with a manufacturing facility based in the United States, Ireland, China, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Austria, Ireland, India, and Spain. Our Client , a global supply chain manufacturer, managing facilities globally came to us to solution his challenge.

The challenge

Managing the business finances is a daunting task. Along with managing the day to day, cash-flow, revenue, profit, loss, margins, expenses of a business, there is End of Month, End of Quarter and End of Year processing and reporting which involves recording, reconciling, and reviewing all business transactions and finalising the account data for that period. It is needed to review any discrepancies in your accounts, address any issues in the business promptly and make tax filing easier.

Our client was experiencing up to 2-3 months delay on end of month processing

  • One of our CFO’s was 2-3 months behind on end of month processing due to the cumbersome process of their current ERP systems and manual spreadsheets reconciliation. The CFO now has full visibility on He now sees his financial information, in real time, with the at  click of a button, which has transformed his working life.
  • The issue this business had was, even with a robust ERP system, there is still a lot of manual calculation, spreadsheets, and reconciliation between all the different systems and spreadsheets within the business.

The cost of this was TIME which puts a lot of pressure on the individuals involved.

Cloud-based Software
Real-Time Financial Data
Consolidated data from multiple excel sheets
The solution

The WrxFlo Financial management tracking solution, MS is a cloud-based solution which uses an API to connect to your business management systems (ERP MES CRM etc). WrxFlo securely encrypts the data and extracts the relevant tables into the WrxFlo platform. Once extracted, the data can be converted into the necessary metrics for the business. It connects existing financial management systems (ERP) and integrates with any other systems that the business uses on a day to day.

Our own “WrxFlo revolution” has the potential and trajectory, to establish and maintain our place as a “leader” in our global group… A paperless, real-time reporting workplace is now a reality.

CEO
Manufacturing Firm

Our team has issued every part in stock for this week. Now, our team is working on next week's orders.... This is the power of technology.

Director of Engineering
MedTech Firm

We are very happy to pass our TQM audit. The auditor was very happy to see that we had such an impressive system in place. I would like to say thank you to the WrxFlo team for super support and helping us develop this impressive system.

Global Director
Global Supply Chain 
The result

Business outcomes:

  • 6 weeks of a time delay brought down to 30 minutes
  • This project took 2 weeks to implement.
  • Provides a single point of information on financials of a company
  • Very quickly, the CFO saw value from the software and was able to recoup significant time, to use elsewhere in the business.
  • The client has an entire new suite of data and insights into the financial status of the company.

WrxFlo Vision Inspection System

Manufacturing
Global
Multi site
The client

Our global manufacturing client is a market leader in industrial lubrication products, with facilities across Europe, the US and India. Over the past several years the client had been driving internal process improvements but were also looking to drive new levels of process efficiency.

The challenge

The problem the client had was in quality control. The client needed a reliable and efficient system that can accurately inspect products and alert them to any issues. Quality control is an essential part of any manufacturing process but ensuring consistent quality can be a challenge. The Client has thousands of finished goods being shipped across the world.

Prior to being shipped, each part goes through a rigorous process including an inspection and quality checks.  The Client would complete up to 900 inspections a day. The process was extremely manual, it required a lot of paperwork and administrative tasks, and human error played a huge part in the process. The client required the inspection phase of the overall process to be automated.

 

 

 

Process is automated
Paperless solution
The solution

That’s where the WrxFlo Vision Inspection System came in. This cutting-edge system can help businesses reach optimal quality control in manufacturing processes by detecting even the smallest of defects, as well as identifying opportunities for improvement. With its advanced features, such as its high-speed cameras, intuitive software, and powerful analytics, the WrxFlo Vision Inspection System can provide businesses with the insights needed to ensure consistent quality.

WrxFlo looked at our clients current vision system quality inspection process and worked with them to review the portfolio of manufacturing products to agree on which areas would be set up.

WrxFlo used Advantech industrial PCs which are hooked up to industrial cameras through USB ports which are implemented onsite in the client’s manufacturing facility. The first unit is then set up. The system takes a visual record of the unit with a 100% inspection rate, which is approved by the client as 100% quality approved.

The WrxFlo solutions

Once this is created the system starts to learn and the Vision Inspection System can compare other parts to this best-in-class part.

With the click of a button, each part will go through a rigorous inspection testing phase and the VIS can detect any errors with parts. The system then notifies the operator, who can then decide a course of action. The operator can fail it or pass it, and a record of the test will be stored.

This system removes any human error, as it removes the operator’s tacit knowledge, as most quality systems are based on human experience and this system is based on machine learning. This system also removes paper as everything recorded by hand is now removed and the data is recorded and stored in the cloud for future analysis.

 

Our own “WrxFlo revolution” has the potential and trajectory, to establish and maintain our place as a “leader” in our global group… A paperless, real-time reporting workplace is now a reality.

CEO
Manufacturing Firm

Our team has issued every part in stock for this week. Now, our team is working on next week's orders.... This is the power of technology.

Director of Engineering
MedTech Firm

We are very happy to pass our TQM audit. The auditor was very happy to see that we had such an impressive system in place. I would like to say thank you to the WrxFlo team for super support and helping us develop this impressive system.

Global Director
Global Supply Chain 
The result
  • A fully automated system, that can accurately inspect products once they are finished manufacturing and alert them of any issues.
  • Self-learning – as it learns and predict good product and bad product, which allows the client to improve the system accuracy over time.
  • Cloud-based – the platform sits in the cloud; all records are stored on the cloud and on hand to the business in real time for review.
  • Analytics - The system can analyse metrics and trends with errors/faults