Juniper Innovations’ consultants co-wrote part of ISRetail’s warehouse management system, which is a best of breed solution that ISRetail sells and promotes. This system is installed in Frissul, Portugal.
Frissul required warehousing and distribution software to support their growing company within the third party logistics sector, operating across multiple client accounts that specialised in quality control and productivity improvements whilst controlling frozen distribution. Frissul selected ISRetail as their preferred warehouse system software partner. A key part of the selection was ensuring the software supported a third party logistics organisation and could support and control cold storage and freight for food producers, national and international retail companies.
As part of the successful project ISRetail:
- Helped scope out third party logistics operational frozen food processes
- Implemented software to support third party logistics warehouse and delivery processes
- Interfaced the software to customers ERP systems using EDI
- Developed specific niche functionality such as creation of security for use between different clients across multiple sites and for use by different client shipping in the same site, systematically managing multiple client orders simultaneously within the same & different buildings and maintaining a pick and pack audit trail within a building to help measure and split costs between different clients
- Integrating specialist frozen and radio frequency data capture devices
The project benefits after a successful implementation included:
- Technology to fully control multiple client orders and inventory across multiple sites and multiple clients in the same site
- Improved overall warehouse labour productivity by over 20%+
- Solution giving national coverage 24 hour 7 day a week
- Cloud based solution helping to lower the initial investment amount & speed up the implementation
- Integration of specialist hardware for frozen operations
- Client audit readiness
- No software surprises
- Smooth integration of partners