Equipped to handle the unique challenges of the food and drink industry, from short shelf lives to high volume throughput, Körber WMS will strengthen your processes and increase your competitive edge.
With Körber WMS, you will be able to more efficiently manage your warehousing operation from start to finish, while ensuring food safety, maintaining supply chain transparency and optimising inventory management.
Oriental grocer, Wing Yip, implemented new systems that brought improvements in stock accuracy and transparency. Andy Yarnall, Group Operations Manager, says, “Stock inventory checks are carried out weekly on key lines and are consistently accurate. We have seen better traceability of goods and our processes are better streamlined”.
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In food and beverage warehousing, it’s crucial to maintain perfect temperatures and prevent cross-contamination. Körber WMS tracks where products are stored and lets you monitor and log temperature and humidity in your ambient, chilled and frozen zones to ensure food safety. Goods are automatically assigned to the correct receiving, storage and despatch locations, preventing food safety mistakes. This protects consumers in your onward supply chain and safeguards your reputation by avoiding issues that could harm your brand.
Efficiently manage shelf lives and provide your customers with products within their preferred use-by date tolerances with rapid order-to-despatch processes. Körber WMS offers real-time tracking of expiry dates and has configurable expiration date management to facilitate first-expired-first-out (FEFO) stock management. This ensures the right goods are always shipped on time, reducing waste, improving stock turn rates and boosting your profit margins.
Handle urgent product recalls with confidence. Körber WMS features lot, batch and consignment traceability along with built-in recall management, enabling you to rapidly identify and locate affected products. This enables you to trace food and drink through your supply chain, ensuring your compliance with food safety regulations.
Define and record various product features and manage different units of measure accurately with Körber WMS. You can use multiple units of measure, such as weights, volumes, dimensions and catch weights – even expressing several different ones simultaneously. This allows you to count in one unit – pallets, say – but sell in units or by individual product weights. Using scanners, you can also use bar code technology to automate and speed up processing, which reduces errors and ensures accurate transactions.
Overstocking leads to waste and understocking means you miss out on sales. Always have the right stock available with a system that provides the data for strong demand forecasting and inventory planning. When the right goods are always in stock, you can deliver excellent customer service that brings repeat purchases and engenders loyalty. Körber WMS is also simple to learn. When used in conjunction with handheld scanners, staff are guided effortlessly through their warehouse tasks, meaning you can quickly onboard temporary staff to meet seasonal surges.
You need accurate data to closely manage your stock control. Cycle counts keep you apprised of your stock situation and helps you prioritise the counting of high volume, high value or fast-moving products. This improves your on-hand accuracy KPI and always gives you a clear view of stock levels – even if you have countless SKUs and large volumes of stock.
Enhance the management of your food and beverage supply chain with additional technologies for a comprehensive and integrated approach:
Integrate Körber WMS with your Enterprise Resource Planning system to streamline operations. You will benefit from improved order processing and more efficient workflow management and can take advantage of enhanced data accuracy for better decision-making and increased operational efficiency.
Körber WMS is a single, flexible, scalable warehouse management solution. Advanced inventory management coupled with day-today operations management. It optimises receiving, putaway, storage, replenishment, picking, packing, shipping, and reporting.
Integrate robotics technology to streamline repetitive tasks and improve operational efficiency. Use Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) to quickly and efficiently transport goods or pallets from storage to pickers or to shipping areas.
Add a Transport Management System to improve route planning and optimisation, ensuring faster delivery to your outlets and independent retailers. Capture proof of delivery and efficiently plan for seasonal demand fluctuations with advanced scheduling of loads and routes, ensuring timely and cost-effective distribution.
Use hardware like scanners, voice picking, pick-to-light systems and packaging solutions to enhance accuracy and speed in order processing.
Incorporate inventory forecasting and planning software to maintain optimal stock levels without unnecessarily tying up cash.
Leverage Balloon’s Supply Chain Insights Module for Microsoft Power BI for detailed analytics and reporting, enhancing your decision-making capabilities with powerful data visualisations.
Balloon One Xchange (BOX) is a supply chain integration platform built in the cloud. Box allows for seamless connection between your entire supply chain technology ecosystem.
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Virgin Wines has become one of the leading direct-to-consumer wine retailers in the UK. It now turns over more than £59m and stocks between 4,000 & 7,000 pallets of wine across 3 facilities.
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Huel, founded in 2015, offers nutritionally complete meal solutions, including powders, drinks, and bars, across 80+ countries. Huel is a £185 million business, available in over 100 countries across the globe.
WMS / ERP / TMS
Classic Fine Foods deliver on demand, the highest quality of fresh, frozen and pastry products to the best restaurants and hotels. Their operation spans over 12 different countries across the world.
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Midland Chilled Foods is a tier 1 food distribution company established in 1976. It supplies a broad range of frozen, chilled and ambient foods to wholesale, retail, foodservice and hospitality customers.
WMS / ERP
WingYip is a leading supplier of over 4,500 authentic and quality Oriental ingredients. Wing Yip offers a real culinary experience for the catering trade, discerning chefs and foodies.
WMS / ERP
Birchall Foodservice is a company built on strong family values and has been suppling independent caterers in for over 80 years. Quality products and supreme customer service at the forefront of their offering.
WMS / ERP / TMS
Classic Fine Foods deliver on demand, the highest quality of fresh, frozen and pastry products to the best restaurants and hotels. Their operation spans over 12 different countries across the world.
