Case History

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38121 - Trento

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http://www.gruppogiovannini.com

Gruppo Giovannini Srl

Electrical & Electronics

Founded in Trento in 1942, Giovannini Materiali Elettrici Srl is now the parent company of a well-established organization covering Northeastern Italy and is one of the principal Italian distributors in the wholesale sale of electrical materials. The Giovannini group includes Giovannini Materiali Elettrici Srl, META COMMERCIALE Materiali Elettrici Srl, CEA Materiali Elettrici Srl, MEL Materiali Elettrici Srl and Electro Self Materiali Elettrici Srl.

Products:

WMS

StockSystem

WAREHOUSE LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT

Software for the management of logistics processes.

Gruppo Giovannini

Gruppo Giovannini's numbers

Gruppo Giovannini is well established throughout the Northeast and is one of Italy's leading distributors in the electrical wholesale industry.

OPERATING SITES

LOGISTIC HUB

SQUARE METERS COVERED LOGISTICS HUB

HOME & LIGHT STORE

CORPORATE STRUCTURE

Gruppo Giovannini includes:

Giovannini Materiali Elettrici s.r.l.
ME.TA. COMMERCIALE Materiali Elettrici s.r.l.
CEA Materiali Elettrici s.r.l.
MEL Materiali Elettrici s.r.l.
Electro Self Materiali Elettrici s.r.l.

The relationship with Replica Sistemi is very good, also because of the Customer Service assistance for full-scale operation and after-sales support, both on Stocksystem and the management system. We are happy with them: they have correctly implemented all the software part for automated warehouse management.

Michele Argenti

CED Manager Gruppo Giovannini Srl

GOALS

Increased performance.
Use of voice system.
Safety of inventories.
Elimination of the final inspection stage.
Decrease in errors.
Independence from human resources.

ISSUES

Extremely uneven materials (fuses, electrical cables, cable reels, poles).
Diverse warehouse structures (cantilevers, pallet racks, flatbeds, verticals).
Diverse handling equipment and related handling.
Goods input bills up to 500 lines.
Picking availability at the time of warehouse storage.
Shipping orders from a few rows up to 300.
Unplannable deliveries.

Solutions

In 2007 The Giovannini Group relied on Replica Sistemi to optimize its warehouse logistics management processes through the acquisition of StockSystem.

Giovannini Group management chose the StockSystem solution based on voice technology to further increase the efficiency of its logistics operations.

Seventy percent of picking in the small parts and verticals is done through voice picking.

StockSystem through the use of voice terminals dialogues directly with the management system through voice. Warehouse operators, equipped with a Vocollect Talkman terminal with a headset and microphone, work quickly and safely with hands and eyes free, using a lightweight, belt-wearable device.

In 2011 Giovannini Group decided to switch to StockSystemEvolution.

INTERVENTION MODES:

Warehouse Layout Analysis.
Material type analysis.
Input and storage flow analysis.
Analysis of picking and shipping flows.
Integration analysis with central information system.

Installed products

WMS: StockSystem
Add-on: SMA.I.L.:) Voice

Hand-held Hardware: 25 terminals Honeywell 9551
Hand-held Hardware: 39 terminals Motorola MC9090
Voice Hardware: 8 terminals voice Talkman T5

Layout warehouse Facilities and means used

Cantilever (cradles + multidirectional)
Pallet rack (pallets + retractable)

Voluminous (pallet + retractable)
Vertical (roll)
Minuteries (roll+comm.man on board)

Flows analysis

1. GOODS ENTRY

Non-coil electrical materials

At the time of physical receipt and quantity control, material is routed to the various logical warehouses according to storage groups/subgroups through display on the radio frequency terminal.

Goods entry is handled in different modes:

bulky material: management by material pallet
small parts: handling with wolf-mouth cartons with assembly in handling roll with storage location calculation

In-coil electrical materials

Each coil is numbered and each coil is assigned an input lot.

At the end of the check, verification of receipt with issuance of delta reports between what is shown in the ddt and what is actually received and feedback to the 'host for accounting update and check invoices to be received.

2. STOCKING

Storage logics:

Depending on the storage group/subgroup assigned to the material, the logical storage area is identified
Random management of both picking and stock according to the rotation index and occupancy class
Management of picking minimums and maximums
Storage is managed in different modes
Bulky material:
- location calculation at the time of pallet pickup
- small parts material: pre-stocking upon receipt, storage of boxes in the roll with optimized route.

3. SHIPPING

The central information system examines the orders in the portfolio and based on the logic of urgency, volumetry, order type, and material type generates shipment requests with different order types : minibatch pick, voluminous pick, transfer pick, urgent pick, cable pick, etc.

4. PICKING

Shipping orders generate pickup missions that are divided according to the pickup means associated with the warehouse locations, effectively achieving parallelism of pickups with direct forwarding of bulky material to the shipping bay and to the small parts compaction area.*

5. COMPACTING

Cartons picked with minibatches are taken to a compaction area divided by zones; at the end of the picking process, a report of cartons to be compacted is issued; cartons are taken from the area and shipping units are formed and overpack labels are generated.

6. LOADING BAY

The bays are mapped and through the RF terminals the shipping units are forwarded and stored in the respective bays; when a shipping order is fully picked and present in the bay it becomes shippable and feedback is sent to the 'host for the issuance of the ddt.

Focus on picking

*Minibatch picking: depending on the volume and number of orders, a pick is made by roll with cartons, for multiple shipping orders, in order to optimize the warehouse route. It is largely used for low-volume orders and involving the logical warehouse and vertical minibatches.

Bulk picking: normal picking with roll or pallet means of transport, appropriately numbered; at the end of picking forwarding to the shipping bay after issuance of overpack labels and generation of shipping units.

Transfer pickup: normal pickup with roll or pallet transport medium, appropriately numbered; at the end of pickup forward to the shipping bay after issuance of overpack labels and generation of shipping unit, it is distinguished from others by priority.

Urgent pickup: normal pickup with roll or pallet means of transport, appropriately numbered; it is not scheduled but released immediately upon pickup.

Cable pickup: normal pickup with roll or pallet transportation means, appropriately numbered; normally cutting activities are done which are noted in RF for charging to the customer; they are released in advance as they need time for preparation.

Advantages

Productivity increase of the rows processed daily:

Reduction of the margin of error by 15%.
Reduction in operating costs.

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