Case Study: Authentics

Industry: Wholesale Distribution
Application: WMS with SAP Business One

Company Overview

For over 45 years, Authentics has been one of the UK's foremost designers and retailers of contemporary design gifts and houseware. Authentics distributes a wide range of products, including bathroom accessories, handmade glass items, home decoration items and giftware.

Authentics' four full time staff operate from a 16,000 square foot warehouse in Hersham, Surrey, England. Authentics ships its products throughout the world to a customer base of both large and small retailers, as well as taking online orders directly from individual customers.

Business Challenge

Paper based processes
Home grown warehouse management system
Busiest times are during Autumn and Winter when they are averaging 150 orders a day
Staff used pick tickets to fill orders and would then record what they picked on each slip by hand, which was then manually keyed into the system

Implementation

4 users easy edition with multi zone
2 wireless access points with 5 handheld scanners

Customer Benefits

Increase in productivity
Orders being processed in half the time
No need for paper recording or manual data entry

Benefits

Inventory count time down from 5 days to 1.5 days
99.9% inventory accuracy
Order picking time reduced by 50%
Real time visibility into warehouse inventory level

"I love the integration between Radio Beacon and SAP. I can keep an eye on absolutely everything I need to."

Darren Creasey, Warehouse Manager, Authentics Ltd.

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