INITIAL SITUATION
Especially consumables such as occupational safety, tools or spare parts with irregular, not always predictable requirements play an important role in the procurement of companies. If individual items are missing, such as protective clothing or the appropriate tools, it not only costs you and your employees a lot of time and money, but also harbors the risk of accidents. Imagine an urgent job that needs to be completed on this night shift and your employee needs a special spare part to get a failed machine running again. Due to unreported withdrawals, the required part appears in inventory management, but the bin is empty. BOOSTRACK solves this problem for you.
ANALYSIS BY BOOSTRACK
Our customer from Rhineland-Palatinate, whose core competence as a technology company lies in metal and plastic processing, was looking for this optimization. Especially C-parts with a high throughput rate have to be available at the right place and in the right quantity at all times. With the dispensers from BOOSTRACK, our customer has an intelligent AKL that has the required material in stock at the right time and also triggers an automatic order when stocks are running out. Thanks to the dynamic storage system in the BOOST.Tower, a large number of different materials can be stored as required and even in small quantities. In addition, there is an integrated management of loan tools, since it is not only possible to remove the items, but also to store them again or manage them on loan. BOOSTRACK has also developed a quick filling that significantly shortens this process for our customers.
THE FILLING SERVICE IS PERFORMED ABOUT TWICE A WEEK BY A PERMANENT BOOSTRACK EMPLOYEE IN ORDER TO GUARANTEE A COMPLETE MATERIAL SUPPLY IN THE PLANT WITH MULTI-SHIFT OPERATION.
IMPLEMENTATION
Our BOOST.Tower or BOOST.BOX output system combines the well-known advantages of common vending systems with advanced technology and innovative software. The system can be flexibly expanded and combined with our IOT devices. Access via RFID can take place in a multi-layered authorization system. The display of the product catalogs in the software can be used flexibly and intuitively. An important point is the connection to an existing ERP. Many machines only generate a standard CSV file here and complex interfaces have to be installed. Our tower can access a wide range of formats and ideally use the existing interface.
OPERATION AND ONGOING OPTIMIZATION
In this customer project, 7 automatic goods issuing machines were used in the most diverse parts of the plant with over 70.000 withdrawal entries. A continuation or a further expansion of the machine project is planned in the 2.300-strong plant. The filling service is carried out about twice a week by a permanent employee from Lingemann in order to ensure a seamless material supply in the multi-shift plant. Based on our experience, the machines can only be reliably filled via a buffer store. We coordinate the optimal disposition quantities individually with our customers and constantly monitor changes in requirements in order to avoid any overstocking or shortages. The products removed are calculated in a specially structured collective invoice at the end of the month, in which the customer's own cost centers and cost units are listed cumulatively.
MEASURABLE SUCCESS
Since the introduction of the electronic goods issue in 2015, our customer has recorded a 20% reduction in sales of the stored consumables. The posting is now automated and the walking distances of the employees have been significantly reduced.