Challenge

This customer is a world leader in hard disk drives and storage solutions sold at retail stores and to original equipment manufacturers. Coridian worked with this customer to automate their inventory tracking system. They were having trouble accurately tracking their inventory because they processed everything manually. Warehouse employees would shelf items and then go back to their computer and manually enter information regarding the location of the product. This process wasted a great deal of time and resulted in inaccurate inventory counts.

Solution

Coridian developed a custom application that was loaded into Motorola’s MC9090 handheld terminals. The application allows employees to have mobility in the warehouse and not constantly go back to the computer to conduct a transaction. Coridian’s software allows for employees to add, move and adjust inventory transactions that are then uploaded into the company’s host program. For security and compliance, the application also requires warehouse employees to log on to the terminal with a username and password providing confirmation of who completes each transaction.

Results

With the new terminals and custom application, this customer can now deliver and move more product faster, and warehouse employees are more efficient. There is also more visibility of product flow and the company’s inventory accuracy is now 99.9%. This company looked to Coridian for a solution that was customizable for their needs, but also cost effective. They will continue to look to Coridian in future projects to help them improve their processes.

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