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Case Study: Dental Sky

Industry: Medical Distribution
Application: Warehouse Management System

"Accurancy has improved quite dramatically with the introduction of barcodes on the picking bins. Staff members seem more keen to pick orders using the handheld scanners than they were before using paper and pens"

Andy Parkes

Warehouse Manager

Company Overview

Dental Sky is a distributor supplying dentists and other medical practitioners with products from brand names such as Colgate, Oral-B and AGFA. With products imported from France, the UK operation runs from a warehouse in Ashford, Kent. The implementation of the new system was completed in three months.

Customer Benefits

  • 30% improvement in picking efficiency
  • Improved warehouse accuracy
  • Accurate receiving
  • Accurate putaway
  • Accurate order picking
  • Accurate order shipping
  • Receiving accuracy - no 'garbage in'
  • Bar code scanning - accurate identification
  • Fewer handling steps – reduced likelihood of mistakes
  • Reduced customer returns
Implementation
5 users, Accellos WMS Collect Edition
1 WiFi access point, 5 MC3090 handhelds