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Sovena USA Opens New Manufacturing and Distribution Facility with PowerHouse/WMS
Manufacturing Integration, Lot & Expiration Control, and Storage Optimization - Lead Sovena USA Quality Initiatives
New York - USA:
Warehouse Management Systems
provider QSSI has announced that Sovena USA (formerly East Coast Olive Oil) has
completed moving to their new manufacturing and distribution center.
Located on a 23-acre site in Rome, NY,
Sovena's newly-built 185,000 square-foot facility opened in late 2007,
encompassing warehousing, production, quality control, and shipping, in a layout
optimized for efficiency. Five rail lines
service the facility, where oil is pumped to 59 storage tanks capable of holding
up to 380,000 gallons of olive oil. The production lines feed into automated
shrink-wrappers and palletizers before passing product through to the warehouse,
which boasts 12,000 pallet positions.
Sovena had outgrown their
existing facility many times over and was storing inventory in several off-site
warehouses. A solution was needed to
enable them to take control of their inventory, to assist with their move and to
streamline their new manufacturing, warehousing and distribution operations with
a focus on quality.
Implemented in anticipation of
their impending move, PowerHouse/WMS was used to identify their entire inventory
and facilitate the transfer of hundreds of truck loads of goods to the new
building. Sovena used this
opportunity to capture critical inventory attributes including the lot &
expiration dates necessary to ensure only the highest quality products were
being shipped.
Designed by leading distribution
design firm The Facilities Group, the new warehouse uses a variety of storage
media configurations. Selective,
double-deep and drive-in racks of varying capacity configurations, and bulk
storage were incorporated in the layout.
Sovena configured PowerHouse putaway rules including "bulk submit" to
direct putaway to the location types that would best leverage the various
storage configurations based on the lot and quantity of inventory to be stored,
and finally with an eye toward the final optimized shipping schedule.
PowerHouse/WMS is used to manage
raw materials and finished goods and to track raw material lots into production
and the finished product. Production
work-orders are used to generate ASN's to the warehouse system and pre-print
pallet labels that are applied on the manufacturing line. Forklift operators receive finished
goods with a simple scan of the ASN label and are directed to fulfill open
orders or store the inventory for future shipment.
About Sovena USA: Sovena
USA
is the country's largest importer of olive oil supplying more than 50% (65,000
metric tons annually) of all private label olive oil in the U.S. retail
marketplace. Formerly known as East
Coast Olive Oil, the company was founded in 1991 as an importer of olive oil for
the foodservice industry, and quickly expanded into other sectors. Today, Sovena
USA
serves the foodservice, retail, and industrial markets in the United States and Canada.
Their portfolio of edible oils includes olive oils, organic, vegetable &
seed oils, high-volume frying oils, blends, flavored oils, and a complete line
of vinegars.
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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