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	Kenco Helps Healthcare Provide Better Outcomes Blue Yonder

Kenco Helps Healthcare Provide Better Outcomes

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Technology Category	Functional Applications - Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)
Applicable Industries	Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions	Warehouse & Inventory Management
Use Cases	Inventory Management Warehouse Automation
Services	System Integration Training
Challenge	Kenco, a third-party logistics (3PL) provider, was facing challenges with one of its healthcare customers who was using outdated warehouse management technology with legacy functionality. The customer needed more control, system-directed productivity gains, and the value-added functionality offered by a best-in-class warehouse management solution. The existing technology solution lacked emergency replenishment functionality, which was interfering with their ability to fill orders rapidly and cost-effectively. The legacy solution could not allocate orders to the pick faces without the full quantity available to fill the order, requiring the last few items of a particular lot to be physically moved out of the pick face so the system would generate a replenishment for a new lot to fill orders. Read More
About Customer	The customer is a healthcare company that was using outdated warehouse management technology with legacy functionality. They needed more control, system-directed productivity gains, and the value-added functionality offered by a best-in-class warehouse management solution. Their existing technology solution lacked emergency replenishment functionality, which was interfering with their ability to fill orders rapidly and cost-effectively. The legacy solution could not allocate orders to the pick faces without the full quantity available to fill the order, requiring the last few items of a particular lot to be physically moved out of the pick face so the system would generate a replenishment for a new lot to fill orders. Read More
Solution	Kenco implemented Blue Yonder’s warehouse management capability to enhance the customer’s replenishment processes with a new level of automation that increased productivity. Primary pick locations can now be changed dynamically, there is no downtime on the pick line with users waiting for new product and no wasted product moves to clear pick-face locations. The system drives an emergency replenishment for wave allocations in the pick face with sufficient quantity to fill customer orders. Previously, this was a completely manual process that required paper workarounds. With the help of Blue Yonder services, Kenco was able to go live with the system for its customer in only nine months, and was shipping full volumes within two weeks after go-live. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Functional Applications - Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)

Applicable Industries

Healthcare & Hospitals

Applicable Functions

Warehouse & Inventory Management

Use Cases

Inventory Management

Warehouse Automation

Services

System Integration

Training

Challenge

Kenco, a third-party logistics (3PL) provider, was facing challenges with one of its healthcare customers who was using outdated warehouse management technology with legacy functionality. The customer needed more control, system-directed productivity gains, and the value-added functionality offered by a best-in-class warehouse management solution. The existing technology solution lacked emergency replenishment functionality, which was interfering with their ability to fill orders rapidly and cost-effectively. The legacy solution could not allocate orders to the pick faces without the full quantity available to fill the order, requiring the last few items of a particular lot to be physically moved out of the pick face so the system would generate a replenishment for a new lot to fill orders.

About Customer

The customer is a healthcare company that was using outdated warehouse management technology with legacy functionality. They needed more control, system-directed productivity gains, and the value-added functionality offered by a best-in-class warehouse management solution. Their existing technology solution lacked emergency replenishment functionality, which was interfering with their ability to fill orders rapidly and cost-effectively. The legacy solution could not allocate orders to the pick faces without the full quantity available to fill the order, requiring the last few items of a particular lot to be physically moved out of the pick face so the system would generate a replenishment for a new lot to fill orders.

Solution

Kenco implemented Blue Yonder’s warehouse management capability to enhance the customer’s replenishment processes with a new level of automation that increased productivity. Primary pick locations can now be changed dynamically, there is no downtime on the pick line with users waiting for new product and no wasted product moves to clear pick-face locations. The system drives an emergency replenishment for wave allocations in the pick face with sufficient quantity to fill customer orders. Previously, this was a completely manual process that required paper workarounds. With the help of Blue Yonder services, Kenco was able to go live with the system for its customer in only nine months, and was shipping full volumes within two weeks after go-live.

Impact #1	Replaced inefficient manual picking processes and solution workarounds with automated and efficient system-directed picking.
Impact #2	Added intelligent system-directed pick waves and fulfillment processes to support customer growth and improved service to the customer’s customers.
Impact #3	Trained Kenco resources for future customer implementations and service.

Impact #1

Replaced inefficient manual picking processes and solution workarounds with automated and efficient system-directed picking.

Impact #2

Added intelligent system-directed pick waves and fulfillment processes to support customer growth and improved service to the customer’s customers.

Impact #3

Trained Kenco resources for future customer implementations and service.

Benefit #1	Went live with the system for its customer in only nine months.
Benefit #2	Started shipping full volumes within two weeks after go-live.

Benefit #1

Went live with the system for its customer in only nine months.

Benefit #2

Started shipping full volumes within two weeks after go-live.

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Kenco Helps Healthcare Provide Better Outcomes

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