Case History

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Menù Srl

Food & Beverage

Menù is a specialty foods company in continuous expansion. From the deli meats shop founded by Romolo Barbieri in Cavezzo (Modena) in the 1930s, the current company is run by Rodolfo Barbieri with over 250 employees, 260 agents and about 30,000 customers. More than 600 products in the catalogue, a plant extending over more than 45,000 square meters and 60 million Euros in sales. Departments and divisions whose common denominator is food safety and the search for quality, from ingredients to finished product, obtained through highly-advanced technology without ever forgetting the human touch. Customer service is an essential element that is, by now, intrinsic to the product itself. With the system for direct connection with the agents, receiving orders has been decisively speeded up. Upon receipt, it goes to the central processor for the standard checks and, if all the answers are positive, the order is already ready to be filled.

Products:

WMS

StockSystem

WAREHOUSE LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT

Software for the management of logistics processes.

Integrated technologies:

Voice

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Menù is a leading manufacturer of specialty foods for professional catering: condiments, sauces and creams, mushrooms, pasta dishes, prepared dishes, and desserts. Proper supply chain management is essential to ensure product quality.

turnover in millions

employees

and more agents

sqm of facility

products on catalogue

customers

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Company and Supply Chain

From the charcuterie factory founded by Romolo Barbieri in Cavezzo (Modena) in 1932 to the current company more than eighty years have passed but with a real metamorphosis.

Today Menù, chaired by Rodolfo Barbieri, Romolo's son, is a company specializing in the production of quality food products destined for the Ho.Re.Ca. channel.

For a company in the food industry, the speed and accuracy with which it fulfills orders along the supply chain is a key asset in the quest for competitiveness in the specific market.

The goods that Menù produces are prepared to the highest quality standards, but to safeguard product freshness great importance is placed on

the speed with which these reach the customers' tables as well.

In addition to a smaller capacity warehouse for raw materials, Menù has a finished goods warehouse divided into two parts: an automatic pallet warehouse and a traditional shelved warehouse.

Stages of Collaboration in Supply Chain Management

The milestones of the collaboration were:
1998
Menu relied on Replica Sistemi for the optimization of its finished goods warehouse management processes through the acquisition of the StockSystem management system. The flow managed by this solution includes the receipt and labeling of pallets, storage in the automated warehouse, stock replenishment of the traditional warehouse and, from the latter, picking with refilling functions from stock positions from the automated warehouse.
2002
Menu extended the management area of StockSystem to include the raw materials warehouse.
2003
Menù decided to test, as the first company in Italy, Vocollect's voice technology integrated with Replica Sistemi's StockVoice solution.
2011
Menù switched to the new version of StockSystemEvolution, developed in Microsoft.NET.
2012
Menù was celebrating 80 years in business, and in that very year there was a "shake-up" that changed the company's fortunes.
But like a phoenix, from the rubble and destruction of the earthquake, that "tremor" gave new energy and the company started again stronger, more structured and more efficient than before.

The new automated finished goods warehouse, rebuilt after the earthquake, is an imposing structure that houses more than 28,600 pallet spaces and handles 1,150 references and is constantly replenished on input from the StockSystem WMS, which, in addition to the traditional warehouse, also governs two automated vertical drawer warehouses.

GOALS

Increase warehouse productivity
Minimize errors in picking operations
Tracking/traceability of batches and raw materials
Management of picking by expiration date and shelf - life of products
Reducing errors along the supply chain
Reducing order fulfillment time

Installed Products

Voice Hardware: 15 terminals Talkman T2X
Hand-held Hardware: 26 Honeywell HHP 9551 and 9951

Project - 360° Supply Chain Management

Initially the WMS was used for the management of finished goods, and since 2002, Menù has extended the StockSystem management area to include the raw materials warehouse for complete supply chain management.
Having to handle parcels with significant weight and volume (up to 20 kg), the use of the handheld terminal was not always optimal, so management wanted to test the new Voice technology launched by Vocollect at that time.
Menu immediately seized the opportunity: to increase the efficiency of logistics activities by freeing the hands and eyes of warehouse operators.
SPECIAL FEATURES OF THE PROJECT
Voice technology integrated with the StockSystem WMS is not only used for picking activities, but also for data collection of production equipment (machinery status check, temperature detection, etc.).
After the 2012 earthquake, the WMS was useful for quickly carrying out the inventory and moving of intact products to an emergency warehouse and then restoring the stock to the new facility, optimizing movement and avoiding loss of time along the supply chain.

While an average of 380 orders were processed daily prior to the integration of voice into Menu's warehouse management systems, following the Vocollect voice solution, orders processed reached 460 per day. Each operator increased his productivity from a minimum of 15 percent to a maximum of 20 percent.
But in addition to a more effective workforce, the goal included improving warehouse efficiency by increasing the accuracy of operations and management of the entire supply chain; and it is in this area that the Vocollect voice solution enables further extraordinary results. The ability to no longer have their eyesight engaged in reading displays or labels allows operators to focus solely and only on the package to be picked, avoiding distraction, the biggest culprit of any error in picking operations.
As if that were not enough, the system helps in counting the packages since, upon confirmation of the picking, it is the same system that repeats the remaining number of packages still to be picked.
The result found by Menu was a reduction in the margin of error by 60 percent where the StockVoice system was adopted.

Productivity increase up to 20%

Error reduction of 60%

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Emanuele Nannetti

Stages of Collaboration in Supply Chain Management

Installed Products

Project - 360° Supply Chain Management

Advantages

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Integrated technologies:

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Emanuele Nannetti

Stages of Collaboration in Supply Chain Management

Installed Products

Project - 360° Supply Chain Management

Advantages

Information request

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