IoT Warehouse ManagementAutomatic Refill-Reorder Process for warehouse

Renowned companies who are wholesalers of fasteners, screws and screw accessories, dowels, chemicals, electronic and electromechanical components, furniture and construction fittings, tools, machines, installation material, automotive hardware, inventory management, storage, and retrieval systems setup their local warehouses at customer site. These local warehouses contain all the regularly consumed items.
Refilling of these items used to happen monthly with the salesperson from client visits local warehouse and check the individual article quantity.
If the articles get consumed before a month, then reorder process took 2-3 days to refill the articles which cause major trouble to customers and hamper the sales cycle of the client. Despite the implementation of warehouse management systems like SAP, the article entry in the SAP inventory management module is the manual that was prone to error resulting in a bad customer experience.
challenge
- Real-time volume measurement of the bins in which
the material is placed. - The solution needs to be retrofitted to existing bins
without modification. - Level sensors should be wireless and the battery
powered. - Reusability and less uptime.
- Years of battery life.
- Scalable cloud infrastructure.
- Secure data transmission with advanced business analytics reports.
solution
- With patented sensor design technology, real-time measurement of the level of material inside the bin became possible.
- The sensor design gave a battery life of 3 years with retrofitting capability to existing bins.
- The mobile app-based configuration made up time in minutes from hours.
- AWS-based cloud backend made it possible to scale applications in real-time according to usage.
- With SSL, AES, and other cryptographic algorithms the data transactions are secured.
results
- Solution development cycle: 22% reduction in solution development time.
- Refill/Reorder cycle: 90% reduction in refill/reorder cycle.
- System Setup: With mobile app-based configuration setup time is reduced by 50%.