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Success Story SPAR Switzerland: Meat picking with pick-by-voice in SAP LES

Success Story SPAR Switzerland: Meat picking with pick-by-voice in SAP LES

Increased efficiency for the "SPAR meat & more" own-brand meat through paperless picking

In July 2019, SPAR Switzerland launched “SPAR meat & more”, the new own brand for meat, sausage products and side dishes, in all SPAR stores in Switzerland. In order to optimise its picking processes, the retailer decided to carry them out centrally at the distribution center in St. Gallen instead of outsourcing them to the supplier, who had previously pre-picked in line with market requirements. To this end, we integrated the meat picking processes into the existing SAP LES with pick-by-voice processing so that they now run paperless.

Our long-standing customer SPAR Switzerland is one of the leading Swiss retailers with around 2,000 employees and around 200 SPAR Neighborhood Markets. In the past, picking in the meat, sausage products and side dishes division was decentralised. The respective supplier carried out the complete pre-picking for the respective store themselves. The goods stored in boxes were delivered to the SPAR Switzerland distribution center and parked at the cross-docking storage location before being delivered to the ordering SPAR stores without repacking. This process had a negative impact on efficiency: it led to inconsistencies and a lack of visibility and transparency.

Pick-by-voice processing in SAP LES

In phase 1 of the project, the first task was to implement picking via pick-by-voice in the existing SAP LES warehouse management system. In addition, the deliveries to the SPAR stores had to be “married” with the supplier deliveries and market-oriented storage in the cross-docking warehouse types, the refrigerated warehouses, had to be ensured.

We implemented pick-by-voice communication in SAP ITS and used LogiPLus’ own add-on LP MobileGRAFIX for UX optimisation. Effective label printing was also integrated.

Optimisation of specific cross-docking and distribution processes

In a subsequent optimisation phase, various fields of action relating to cross-docking and the distribution of goods were then identified and addressed. Our experts solved the problem, which is particularly common in the food sector, that the materials used within the entire logistics chain are managed in two independent units of measure – e.g. pieces and kilograms. And this without using the SAP Catch Weight functionality. Other topics in this phase were, for example performance optimisation for cross-docking deliveries and the prioritisation of certain markets.

Strategic advantages for SPAR: Flexibility. Transparency. Increased efficiency.

With the meat & more project, we have created the necessary flexibility with regard to suppliers, products and new ideas. This is now fully supported by new logistics processes with IT.

Thilo Matheis, founder and Managing Director of LogiPlus, adds: “In addition to classic warehouse management with SAP LES, we help SPAR with our customise development services and add-ons to map and seamlessly integrate industry and customer-specific processes. Our long-standing collaboration with SPAR is of course a great advantage: we know the customer and their challenges and they place a high level of trust in us!”

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