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Leed's Implements
PowerHouse/WMS Warehouse Management System - Improves Accuracy, Productivity and
JIT Production Fulfillment
Process
Automation, System Directed Task Interleaving, Campus Management - Cornerstones
for Production Optimization
Pennsylvania - USA: Warehouse
management solutions provider QSSI has announced that Leed's has implemented
PowerHouse/WMS to manage their warehouse and production operations.
Leed's has enjoyed impressive
double digit sales growth for years.
But to maintain their policy of absolute customer satisfaction and on-time
delivery, Leed's needed a solution to help them control their inventory and keep
the production lines stocked and running optimally.
The task at hand was
significant. Leed's business campus
included a 300k' warehouse, a 250k' production facility, design operations and
external warehouses. In addition to
its own facilities, Leed's manages inventory at nearly twenty outside
contractors that are used to supplement their production capacity or provide
specialized services.
Next to inventory control the
biggest challenge Leeds faced was getting
materials from their warehouse to the right production cell optimally and
Just-In-Time. Limited line-side
production staging areas and a dynamic production schedule meant that less than
a two hour window was available to the warehouse from when a work order was
dropped, to when it was needed for production.
Factor in that the warehouse is over a mile away from the production
facility, requiring over the road transportation of inter-facility transfers,
every opportunity to improve their logistics operations provided escalating
downstream benefits.
Leveraging configurable work
flows and the ability to automate business processes, Leed's uses PowerHouse/WMS
to direct replenishment operators through their picking tasks and to then load
product for delivery to production.
Upon receipt at the production facility operators are automatically directed to
deliver goods Just-In-Time to pre-production staging areas.
Leed's takes advantage of the
configurable functionality PowerHouse/WMS provides to continue to implement
process improvements that gain efficiencies and respond to new business
initiatives. The warehouse now
fulfills fifty percent more orders per day with twenty percent less staff than
prior to PowerHouse/WMS implementation.
About Leed's: Leed's is the leading supplier in the $16 billion promotional
products and advertising specialty industry.
Annual sales, now nearing $300 million, continue to rise for the
New Kensington,
Pennsylvania company.
New employees join the Leed's team nearly
every week while operational space continues to grow at a breakneck pace. Leed's continues to seek exciting new
branded collections for the 25,000 distributors it's proud to call its
customers. What founders Bruce Weiner and
Tom Bernstein started more than 25 years, continues to build on their legacy by
offering relentless product innovation, energetic customer service, and dynamic
client collaboration.
About QSSI: QSSI
delivers advanced Warehouse Management, Transportation Optimization and
Logistics solutions to support the strategic needs of growing companies. Founded in 1986, QSSI deploys
Innovative Supply Chain solutions internationally leveraging a network of
certified partners to meet your needs.
Complementing its WMS and Logistics products, QSSI provides Labor
Management, Slotting, Voice, Process Management and Integration software suites
and hardware to deliver turnkey solutions with exceptional results. For more information please visit:
www.qssi-wms.com.
QSSI: Build trust, improve efficiency, increase productivity,
reduce errors, maximize profits.
Contact Information: Email inquiries to
info@qssi-wms.com or for immediate service please
call 800-338-4420.
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