Case History


Via Tosco Romagnola, 56
50053 - Empoli - FI

Tel: +39 800 230340

www.sammontana.it

Sammontana Spa

Food & Beverage


Founded in Empoli in the 1940s as a small ice cream shop, today Sammontana SpA is the largest Italian ice cream producer, right behind the multinationals. Its success is the result of a constant commitment to creating ice creams with a typically Italian taste while ensuring the maximum quality. Sammontana has grown constantly over the years. The company created from Romeo Bagnoli's dairy store, still run by the Bagnoli family, has become an organization with annual sales of Euro 250 million that, during the season, employs about 1,000 people in a production area of about 70,000 m².

Products:

WMS

StockSystem

WAREHOUSE LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT

Software for the management of logistics processes.
TMS

TMS

TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Software for controlling transportation costs.

Integrated technologies:

Voice

Logistics Experience - Sammontana

Interview to Leonardo Bagnoli

Sammontana

Sammontana's numbers

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Sammontana is the largest Italian ice cream producer, and the market leader in frozen croissant.

SERVED CAFÉS

PRODUCTION FACILITIES

BILLION SOLD PORTIONS

+ EMPLOYEES

Sammontana was established in 1946 in a dairy bar in Empoli purchased by the Bagnoli family, which today, as then, owns and runs the company.

It produces and markets the brands Sammontana, TreMarie, Il Pasticcere, Mongelo and Bon Chef.

It offers products with a unique taste, born from intuition, care and passion for quality.

It is a company that has grown alongside customers and helped develop the traditional channel.

It is a reliable and competent partner of modern distribution, serving private label as well.

In 2005, we started working in the plants of Empoli and Vinci to fulfill the traceability of finished products, then in 2007 we extended the functionalities of the WMS to the management of feedstock. Subsequently, we have implemented since 2010 the WMS in the 4 production plants for the management of both raw materials and finished product. The last two major steps we have taken are related to the new logistics hub in Montelupo (FI), next to Empoli, opened in 2013, with the implementation of the Delivery module for transport planning too. We have automated the printing of the DDT on A4 sheet and implemented digital signature and QR Code to allow the delivery person to directly report the delivery with their smartphone.

Gabriele Calugi


IT Manager Sammontana.

  • Increase warehouse productivity and accuracy
  • Making work in cold storage more efficient
  • Traceability Management
  • Reducing fulfillment time
  • Reducing picking errors
  • Increased level of customer service
  • Unification of logistics systems

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

  • Voice hardware: 32 Talkman terminals T2X and T5 and A720
  • Hand-held hardware: 64 Honeywell freezer terminals
  • Hand-held hardware: 106 Honeywell hand-held terminals

From the feasibility analysis, three phases necessary for the complete development of the project were identified:

FIRST PHASE - EXTENSION OF STOCKSYSTEM TO FINISHED FROZEN PRODUCT VENTILATION ROOMS

Managed flows

  • Receiving and labeling pallets from production/supplier.
  • Storage without mapping in traditional warehouse.
  • Picking from warehouse in massive mode without radio frequency.
  • Moving materials to the ventilation area (0 degree cell).
  • Radio frequency sorting and control and truck loading.

Achieved advantages

  • Certain recognition of materials
  • Traceability and retrievability of materials
  • Automatic feeding of data to the management information system
  • Reduction in errors
  • Decreased control time

SECOND PHASE -  AUTOMATIC CELL PICKUP

One problem remained to be addressed: the difficult environmental conditions for those who are called upon to carry out picking activities in the -35°C cold rooms, which can affect the productivity of the entire logistics process.

For this reason, Sammontana decided to adopt Vocollect voice terminals in the cold storage room. This solution allows operators to dialogue directly with the SMA.I.L:) Voice using the most natural tool available to them: the Voice.

Managed flows

  • Receiving and labeling pallets from production/supplier.
  • Storage with mapping to traditional warehouse in Voice.
  • Picking from warehouse in Voice with refilling functions from stock positions.
  • Moving materials to the ventilation area (0 degree cell).
  • Radio frequency sorting and control and truck loading.

Achieved advantages

  • Cell mapping (-35°C).
  • Knowledge of Cell events in real time.
  • Complete and accurate Tracking and Traceability.
  • Reduction of picking errors.
  • Precise on-time management of inventories as well.

THIRD PHASE - EXTENDING THE PROJECT TO PASTICCERIA LEONARDO

In light of the results obtained in the management of the Empoli location, the project was extended to the Vinci Cell (doubling the terminals dedicated to voice picking).

Finally, the project was extended, with traditional terminals, to the raw materials warehouse of Pasticceria Leonardo.


FOURTH PHASE - IMPLEMENTATION OF MONTELUPO LOGISTIC HUB

StockSystem has been implemented in the Montelupo warehouse.

StockSystemEvolution manages:

4 Plants – 1 Logistic hub

The new centralized logistic hub was inaugurated in January 2013 in Montelupo (Empoli)

-single hub for distribution of all commodities;

-resource rationalization and service optimization.


The hub is structured as follows:

  • 30.000 Pallet Spots
  • 20 Loading Bays
  • 4 Stocking Areas
  • 3.000 Picking Spots
  • 850 References


  • 100 Operators
  • 24 hours/day
  • 6 days/week
  • 120 Lorries/day

ADVANTAGES

  • Increased productivity (free hands).

    Sammontana works in -35°C cells and the operator has clothing that prevents easy use of a radio frequency terminal.


  • Increased accuracy and reduced errors (free eyes).

    The operator is not distracted by reading and then laying down the pick list (hands free), but points with his eyes directly to the neck without any more risk of reversing the picked reference.
    In addition, the system helps in counting the packages as upon confirmation of the picked package, the system repeats the remaining number of packages to be picked.

RESULTS

  • Increased quality of work and accuracy in activities.
  • Unification of logistics systems on platforms.
  • Reduction in training time.
  • Increased safety for operators.
  • Reduction in printing costs of paper picking documents.

By making the supply chain more technological we have speeded up the whole system so we have been able to give more quality to the product. To date we supply a few product categories, and our goal is to go to these same customers and serve a wider and wider range of products. This will allow us to be more and more competitive and win new market shares. To support this development, we have built a fully automated warehouse and Replica Sistemi is once again supporting us, with StockSystem, to make this warehouse operational.

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