Logistics solutions provider, Stan Robinson, has implemented a new Warehouse Management System (WMS) from Solarsoft to automate its business processes and reduce the amount of time it takes to pick items by 25 per cent – the equivalent of two hours per user each day.
Before implementing the Solarsoft solution, Stan Robinson was operating almost entirely via paper-based systems, Excel spreadsheets and manual processes. However, when one of the company’s largest customers advised that it was moving onto the Solarsoft WMS, Stan Robinson decided it too would switch to a more efficient, automated solution in order to integrate with the customer and improve its business processes.
Richard Baxter, IT manager at Stan Robinson explains: “The decision to partner with Solarsoft came when a key customer of ours implemented Solarsoft’s WMS and wanted to create a real-time stock movement link with our business. However, as the majority of our processes were paper-based, it made business sense for us to implement the new Solarsoft system in order to integrate with our customer and improve our operations at the same time.”
Since the Solarsoft system went live in November 2010, Stan Robinson has benefited from increased productivity, better efficiency and more accurate traceability of stock and pallets. Baxter continues, “The new system allows us to track everything in real time which is a huge benefit to us as a
business, but is also a key advantage for our customers. Using the system we are able to see exactly what has been picked and when, and this information is fed straight back to the customer in real-time. This means that they too can see when that load has been picked, when it’s in transit, when it has been delivered and also when we haven’t got enough stock and so require a delivery.
