Cerp is the second largest french distributor for pharmacy products and medicines 6700 retailers, 32 000 skus managed
Challenges and objectives
- Implement an optimized logistics management solution for cold containers. Cold containers are located inside the transport main containers.
- Reduce cold containers losses
- Invoice missing containers using the tracking system
Deployments
- Testing and selection of equipment
- RFID and mobile terminals
- Barcode and RFID readers: on conveyors and gantries
- Hardware setup and deployment
- PDA x 70
- RFID Barcode Conveyors
- RFID gantries
- Implemented OCTO+ RFID middleware and interfaced with the customer’s IT systems
- Design and development of the mobile application
Qualitative results
- Implemented a mixed barcode and RFID solution interfaced with the current management software under AS400 OS
- Deployment in 30 warehouses: 45 fixed RFID and CC readers and 70 PDAs
- Rolloutout in production June 2013