Tastefully Simple dishes on Softeon
Business Overview
- Direct sales distributor of gourmet foods based in Alexandria, MN
- Ships 10,000 to 20,000 small parcels each day
- 28,000 sales consultants generate orders
- State-of-the-art warehouse with automated conveyor and picking
Business Objectives
- Required higher efficiency through the DC
- Integration with existing IT environment
- Needed better capacity utilization, picking efficiencies and optimal cartonization operations
- Necessitated a scalable solution with process modernization
- Kitting a major function within the warehouse
Solutions
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“We are extremely impressed with the performance of Softeon and their WMS product. Their solution is very user friendly and completely rules driven. This enables us to easily configure the system to meet our ever-changing business requirements in a very short time. In Softeon, we have a partner with broad industry and process experience providing our team opportunities for improvements we did not have before. Softeon personnel rolled up their sleeves and worked side by side with our personnel – they are there for us.”
Joe Smoliga, Vice President of Operations,Tastefully Simple, Inc
Results
- Operation excellence and improved business efficiency
- Improved assemble-to-order and multi-level bill-of-material management
- Flexible system providing rapid, dynamic user-control configuration changes
- First 30 days after go live, customer performed more configuration changes with major process impacts than what was done under their old system in 5 years
