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FEATURE: IT INTEGRATION
WE KNEW WE NEEDED A WAREHOUSE
MANAGEMENT SYSTEM THAT WAS
FLEXIBLE ENOUGH TO MEET OUR
SPECIFIC NEEDS, BUT ROBUST ENOUGH
TO ALLOW US TO MEET OUR TARGETS
FOR ACCURACY AND SPEED AND
SUPPORT A BUSINESS THAT WAS
GROWING RAPIDLY.
that the warehouse is correctly set up to
support operational efficiency.
It is important to understand that hundreds
of orders are coming in daily; on each order
there are many individual lines making
the consolidation of efficient picking very
complex. For example, if one additional
minute per item is introduced to a situation
where thousands of items are being picked
per day, costs escalate significantly.
The warehouse can be extremely busy with
more than 7,000 lines a day that must
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be picked, checked and dispatched. This
painstaking attention to detail must, of
course, be combined with the business need
for efficiency and speed.
Compliance
The legal constraints around getting
the right product to the right place at
the right time are even more crucial in
the pharmaceutical industry where we
are dealing with expiry dates, scheduled
medicines and quarantined medicines
from overseas.
Steve Mallaby, CEO of Cquential Solutions
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