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Atlanta Bonded Warehouse Standardizes Warehouse Operations

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Technology Category	Functional Applications - Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)
Applicable Functions	Warehouse & Inventory Management
Use Cases	Inventory Management Warehouse Automation
Services	System Integration
Challenge	Atlanta Bonded Warehouse Corporation (ABW) has been providing public and contract food-grade, temperature-controlled distribution services for over 60 years. The company has grown to 3.8 million square feet of modern, high cube storage and distribution capacity in 12 facilities across the southeast. ABW sought to standardize their warehouse operations and the services they provide in order to be an all-in-one provider to their supply chain customers. However, ABW’s paper-based legacy system made this very challenging. ABW’s goals were to implement a highly configurable warehouse management system (WMS) that would offer more functionality than their legacy system and to move their customers’ products through their supply chains in a much more efficient manner, while retaining the ability to track and trace food lot codes to support food safety requirements. Read More
About Customer	Atlanta Bonded Warehouse Corporation (ABW) is a company that has been providing public and contract food-grade, temperature-controlled distribution services for over 60 years. The company has grown to 3.8 million square feet of modern, high cube storage and distribution capacity in 12 facilities across the southeast. ABW is a dynamic company that onboards a new customer about once every three weeks and has a rapid growth rate. They sought to standardize their warehouse operations and the services they provide in order to be an all-in-one provider to their supply chain customers. Read More
Solution	ABW implemented Blue Yonder’s warehouse management and labor management systems. The extensive configuration capabilities of the Blue Yonder digital platform enabled ABW to standardize warehouse operations, thus improving visibility and accuracy. With extra functionalities within warehouse management, such as track and trace, ABW saw significant improvement in customers’ level of confidence. The speed of delivery is very important to Atlanta Bonded Warehouse. Their environment is very dynamic. They onboard a new customer about once every three weeks. Their growth rate has been extremely rapid so the ability to have support from Blue Yonder to address needs as they onboard new customers and explore new functionality is very important for them. Read More Log in to view content
Contents

Technology Category

Functional Applications - Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)

Applicable Functions

Warehouse & Inventory Management

Use Cases

Inventory Management

Warehouse Automation

Services

System Integration

Challenge

Atlanta Bonded Warehouse Corporation (ABW) has been providing public and contract food-grade, temperature-controlled distribution services for over 60 years. The company has grown to 3.8 million square feet of modern, high cube storage and distribution capacity in 12 facilities across the southeast. ABW sought to standardize their warehouse operations and the services they provide in order to be an all-in-one provider to their supply chain customers. However, ABW’s paper-based legacy system made this very challenging. ABW’s goals were to implement a highly configurable warehouse management system (WMS) that would offer more functionality than their legacy system and to move their customers’ products through their supply chains in a much more efficient manner, while retaining the ability to track and trace food lot codes to support food safety requirements.

About Customer

Atlanta Bonded Warehouse Corporation (ABW) is a company that has been providing public and contract food-grade, temperature-controlled distribution services for over 60 years. The company has grown to 3.8 million square feet of modern, high cube storage and distribution capacity in 12 facilities across the southeast. ABW is a dynamic company that onboards a new customer about once every three weeks and has a rapid growth rate. They sought to standardize their warehouse operations and the services they provide in order to be an all-in-one provider to their supply chain customers.

Solution

ABW implemented Blue Yonder’s warehouse management and labor management systems. The extensive configuration capabilities of the Blue Yonder digital platform enabled ABW to standardize warehouse operations, thus improving visibility and accuracy. With extra functionalities within warehouse management, such as track and trace, ABW saw significant improvement in customers’ level of confidence. The speed of delivery is very important to Atlanta Bonded Warehouse. Their environment is very dynamic. They onboard a new customer about once every three weeks. Their growth rate has been extremely rapid so the ability to have support from Blue Yonder to address needs as they onboard new customers and explore new functionality is very important for them.

Impact #1	Increased warehouse efficiencies
Impact #2	Standardized warehouse operations and services
Impact #3	Improved customers’ level of confidence

Impact #1

Increased warehouse efficiencies

Impact #2

Standardized warehouse operations and services

Impact #3

Improved customers’ level of confidence

Benefit #1	Onboarding a new customer about once every three weeks
Benefit #2	Rapid growth rate
Benefit #3	Improved warehouse efficiency using directed work to direct the lift truck operators

Benefit #1

Onboarding a new customer about once every three weeks

Benefit #2

Rapid growth rate

Benefit #3

Improved warehouse efficiency using directed work to direct the lift truck operators

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Atlanta Bonded Warehouse Standardizes Warehouse Operations

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