Leading mobile phone distributor completes successful project

Keymas complete project for a leading mobile phone distributor based in London. The company, who provide logistics and distribution for mobile phone handsets, approached Keymas to work with them on a consultancy basis after making contact via the Keymas website. As one of the fastest growing enterprises in Europe the company needed to address its existing manually operated warehouse to increase efficiency and meet their growing demand.

Developing the new system

Working together with the warehouse management team the new system was designed to reduce despatch overheads by automatically identifying different despatch routes for specific carriers distributing the mobile phone handsets.

The new system prevents sortation error by using a bar code routing system that automatically identifies the distribution route of the product through bar code recognition.

A successful Project

The project was successfully implemented on budget and on time. Working towards a fixed set of outcomes the warehouse has increased its despatch efficiency and reduced its operational costs.

Keymas Managing Director, John Barton reported, “The project utilized a simple bar code routing system which automatically routes product to its pre-set destination. This process utilizes space in the warehouse and reduces costs making the dispatch process more efficient.”

The introduction of an automatic document feed at a key site in Devon has been installed by Keymas. The idea behind the automatic document feed is to automatically generate upon system demand a hard copy of the pick list and insert it into the picking box. The benefits of this are -

-Inserts an order list into the box
-Creates a hard copy for picker if required
-Creates a back up routing barcode

The automatic printing and insertion of the hard copy document mean that should there be a barcode error picking can continue, it also ensures pickers have a back up hard copy for error checking and validation of the picking order.

The Document feed is a development in automated systems and will continue to be used in future Keymas projects around the country.

For more information about the automatic document feed and whether it could be used in your warehouse or distribution centre please contact info@keymas.co.uk

Keymas Launched a brand new website to profile its market leading Warehouse Management Software program K-store. The new site graphically showcases the 5 key elements of the warehouse that K-store innovatively manages, goods in, product put away, stock control, picking and despatch. 

The new website focuses on the benefits of introducing the K-store management system into your warehouse. Combining the benefits of barcode technology with information management software, K-store allows you to improve the performance of your warehouse, cut costs and wastage, improve accuarcy and control and improve crucial business elements of your warehouse such as throughput and efficiency.

The new website graphically shows the benefits of K-store within each stage of the warehouse.

The website also features a simple to use features/benefits list which allows warehouse managers to see what type of application of K-store they need.

For more information about K-store please visit the new website at www.k-store.co.uk