About the Customer
A largest brand in India offers a wide range of industrial and decorative paint solutions. Customer owns five manufacturing plant in UP, Haryana and Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat.
Customer Challenges:
For their plant in Gujarat, they were facing problems which led to increase in operational cost and effect on customer satisfaction.
- Delay in offloading of inbound of raw materials
- Delay in put away as the offloading was not done in a sequenced manner
- Manual record management of inventory
- Unorganised storage of raw material
- Lower visibility & accuracy of inventory
- Higher wastage of the raw material
- Lower productivity due to untrained manpower
- Delays in offloading the shipments at forward stock location
- Delays in order fulfilment impacting production line of customer
- Higher turnaround time of truck from plant-depot-plant due to offloading delays
Holisol Solution:
Holisol team designed & implemented the process for both inbound logistics which included raw material handling & feeding to production line and outbound logistics of finished goods including inventory management & order fulfilment.
- Re-engineered the storage lay-out based on the movement of product to meet the requirements of both inbound & outbound operations
- Hired and trained right people on how the processes need to be managed based on customer requirement
- Streamlined receiving, offloading and put away of the raw material in a designated area
- Line feeding of raw material to production line in the stipulated time
- Inventory management of raw material and finished products
- Set up & managed the outbound operations for order fulfilment of the finished material
- Transformed transportation process by digitizing the process with TMS (Transport Management System):
- Started system-based delivery schedules to forward stock locations
- Started system-based tracking of trucks
- Started exception alert for monitoring offloading delays at the depot to reduce the TAT between plant-depot-plant
Benefits to the customer:
- Reduced the picking time and increased efficiency by 30%
- In time production was increased from 80% to 98%
- Cost was reduced by 15%
- Achieved OTIF of 100%
- Reduced order to supply TAT by 20%
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