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Beaver Street Fisheries Dramatically Improves Warehouse Efficiency and Accuracy

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Technology Category	Functional Applications - Inventory Management Systems Functional Applications - Transportation Management Systems (TMS) Functional Applications - Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)
Applicable Industries	Food & Beverage
Applicable Functions	Logistics & Transportation Warehouse & Inventory Management
Use Cases	Inventory Management Supply Chain Visibility Warehouse Automation
Services	Software Design & Engineering Services System Integration
Challenge	Beaver Street Fisheries, a leading wholesaler of seafood and meat, was struggling with operational efficiency, accuracy, and customer responsiveness in its warehouse operations. The company's 25-year-old homegrown legacy system was no longer able to keep up with the increasing customer requirements for special processing requests. The company was running an old school, paper-based, pick-ticket warehouse where employees would choose a pick ticket and then spend anywhere between five and 20 minutes looking for the product to fill the order. This lack of visibility affected productivity in the warehouse. The company also had issues with inventory accuracy, with products in the warehouse that couldn't be located, leading to delays in order fulfillment. Read More
About Customer	Beaver Street Fisheries is a leading wholesaler of seafood and meat, headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. The company sells its products to mass discounters, grocers, distributors, food service companies, and restaurant chains under the Sea Best brand. Each year, the company imports more than 3,000 containers of seafood products from Asia, which are distributed across North America. The company also does some light manufacturing based on special customer requirements such as breading seafood, resizing it, or repackaging it. The company was looking for supply chain management solutions with state-of-the-art technologies and processes that would enable it to manage its operations on a scale that was previously not possible. Read More
Solution	Beaver Street Fisheries decided to implement solutions for warehouse management, warehouse labor management, transportation management, quality assurance, inventory traceability and recall from JDA Software’s Intelligent Fulfillment suite. The company chose to partner with JDA because of its proven experience in the food and beverage industries. The implementation in the company’s 185,000 square-foot warehouse took only 12 weeks with support from JDA Services. The new system provided the company with a technology platform that could address customer requests very quickly. The warehouse employees now rely on handheld devices with a simple user interface, making it easy to get new employees up and running quickly. The system also improved inventory accuracy by moving from lot-level tracking down to pallet-level tracking. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Functional Applications - Inventory Management Systems

Functional Applications - Transportation Management Systems (TMS)

Functional Applications - Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)

Applicable Industries

Food & Beverage

Applicable Functions

Logistics & Transportation

Warehouse & Inventory Management

Use Cases

Inventory Management

Supply Chain Visibility

Warehouse Automation

Services

Software Design & Engineering Services

System Integration

Challenge

Beaver Street Fisheries, a leading wholesaler of seafood and meat, was struggling with operational efficiency, accuracy, and customer responsiveness in its warehouse operations. The company's 25-year-old homegrown legacy system was no longer able to keep up with the increasing customer requirements for special processing requests. The company was running an old school, paper-based, pick-ticket warehouse where employees would choose a pick ticket and then spend anywhere between five and 20 minutes looking for the product to fill the order. This lack of visibility affected productivity in the warehouse. The company also had issues with inventory accuracy, with products in the warehouse that couldn't be located, leading to delays in order fulfillment.

About Customer

Beaver Street Fisheries is a leading wholesaler of seafood and meat, headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. The company sells its products to mass discounters, grocers, distributors, food service companies, and restaurant chains under the Sea Best brand. Each year, the company imports more than 3,000 containers of seafood products from Asia, which are distributed across North America. The company also does some light manufacturing based on special customer requirements such as breading seafood, resizing it, or repackaging it. The company was looking for supply chain management solutions with state-of-the-art technologies and processes that would enable it to manage its operations on a scale that was previously not possible.

Solution

Beaver Street Fisheries decided to implement solutions for warehouse management, warehouse labor management, transportation management, quality assurance, inventory traceability and recall from JDA Software’s Intelligent Fulfillment suite. The company chose to partner with JDA because of its proven experience in the food and beverage industries. The implementation in the company’s 185,000 square-foot warehouse took only 12 weeks with support from JDA Services. The new system provided the company with a technology platform that could address customer requests very quickly. The warehouse employees now rely on handheld devices with a simple user interface, making it easy to get new employees up and running quickly. The system also improved inventory accuracy by moving from lot-level tracking down to pallet-level tracking.

Impact #1	The company's picking efficiencies have improved dramatically. Picking tasks have decreased from an average of 10 minutes to four minutes.
Impact #2	Picking errors have decreased from 5 percent to less than 1 percent.
Impact #3	The company’s overtime hours have gone down because it has much better accountability of its labor.

Impact #1

The company's picking efficiencies have improved dramatically. Picking tasks have decreased from an average of 10 minutes to four minutes.

Impact #2

Picking errors have decreased from 5 percent to less than 1 percent.

Impact #3

The company’s overtime hours have gone down because it has much better accountability of its labor.

Benefit #1	Improved inventory accuracy from 85 percent to 97 percent
Benefit #2	Reduced average picking time by 60 percent
Benefit #3	Decreased picking errors from 5 percent to less than 1 percent

Benefit #1

Improved inventory accuracy from 85 percent to 97 percent

Benefit #2

Reduced average picking time by 60 percent

Benefit #3

Decreased picking errors from 5 percent to less than 1 percent

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Beaver Street Fisheries Dramatically Improves Warehouse Efficiency and Accuracy

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