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February 19 2024

Optilogix

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Case Studies Optilogix

Industry: Manufacturing for Entertainment Industry
Solution Delivered: Financial Year End Stocktake – Barcoded Shelf labels

About Optilogix

Optilogix understand the challenges retailers face in today’s dynamic marketplace. Their comprehensive suite of services and solutions help retailers stay ahead of the competition and achieve exceptional results. They are a leading provider of innovative solutions designed to optimize processes, streamline operations, control your stock, and drive growth. Based in the United Arab Emirates but also serving the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman & Qatar.

Customer Requirement

A powerful yet flexible system capable of meeting multiple clients’ requirements from retail, warehousing and manufacturing. The ability to load product master data and stock-on-hand reports. The ability for the system to work across multiple countries supported by Optilogix. The ability to provide a rich reporting suite. The provision of training and support to get the company operational as quickly as possible.

Customer Challenges
- Required a system with training and support that would support a diverse list of customer requirements.
- Help to quality check and improve poorly structured customer data into a useable data set ready to load into the system for stocktaking.

How Signetor Delivers

Signetor’s online application for controlling stocktake jobs allows Optilogix and Signetor to look at the same information at the same time. This allowed us to train and continuously support Optilogix remotely. One of the major ways we have helped Optilogix get started is providing quality control on the customer provided data and setting up their first few jobs. This has helped Optilogix establish firm rules for data provision and the number of days it needs to be supplied prior to the stock count.

Each of the scanners have the capability for us to remotely access them and support Optilogix counting staff ensuring any issues can be cleared up and they can quickly return to work. Equally important in some of the large warehouses where Internet speeds and Wi-Fi provision is patchy that the Signetor scanners work without the need for continuous Wi-Fi.

When the stocktake is complete all the data can be matched against the stock on hand file, analysed in Qlik Sense and exported as an MS Excel file for customer review. The full audit trail has provides confidence that all data is accounted for.

The Signetor system & support has allowed Optilogix to tackle large projects very quickly after entering the market.

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February 19 2024

Engweld

maxjack Case Studies, CS Retail, CS Wholesale

Case Studies Engweld (an Air liquide Company)

Industry: B2B Retail
Solution Delivered: Bi-Annual Stocktake – Barcoded Shelf labels.

About Engweld

Engweld supply the UK welding and engineering industries with a wide variety of welding equipment and welding consumables from 11 locations across the North of England, Yorkshire, Humberside, East & West Midlands and Cambridgeshire. They are one of the largest welding equipment distributors in the country.

Customer Requirement

Engweld wanted to reduce the time to complete the stocktake and reduce the time to enter the revised stock levels back into the inventory management system (IMS). Typically, large variances were found post count caused by miss counting where stock was held in multiple locations. The cost of the scanning solution needed to be paid for through efficiency savings.

Customer Challenges

11 Branches needed labelling & staff training. 35 scanners required to undertake each stocktake are only required for 2 days a year making them uneconomic to purchase.

The existing stocktake process required manual data entry of the stocktake result into the inventory system, which required over 10-man days labour. Manual data entry had two costs, the costs of the labour and the delayed return to normal trading.

How Signetor Delivered

For the set up Signetor took the product master file and produced the labels required for each branch. Signetor visited each branch to train them on the stocktake system and work with each local team put up the new barcode shelf labels prior to the stocktake. The overwhelming response from all branches was the new labels were easier to read than the previous IMS produced labels.

To undertake the stocktake Signetor set up 35 scanners and shipped the required number to each of the 11 branches. Barcode staff badges were provided allowing a full traceability of who scanned and counted each product. On the day of the stocktake Signetor was able to remotely support all branches by remotely connecting to each scanner, providing quick issue resolution. By using the scanners Engweld stocktake time was reduced by 30-40% saving time and cost.

On the day of the count the expected stock on hand file was loaded allowing us to report the total count for each branch and variation between actual and expected stock quantities. The reports also produced export format allowing updated stock levels to be upload into the ERP system. This reduced the stock level entry process to 15 minutes, saving time, getting them open for trading sooner and saving the staff from manual data entry.

The cost savings in stocktake time and data upload allow the Signetor service to pay for itself. The stocktake is now approached seriously but without the fear associated with the previous manual processes.