Pack Verification

Are profits going out the door with your manufactured goods?

Every manufacturing company sets goals to produce product, get the products to the shipping dock, get them loaded on a truck or railcar, send their customers the bill and go to the mailbox and pick up the check. Many companies flawlessly perform in the manufacturing process, but lose all of their profits and much more in the shipping and tracking process.

One company in particular, contacted The SMS Group because they were about to be fined $50,000 for shipping the wrong products to the wrong customers. This had been a manual process for many years within this organization with only manual checks and balances and unfortunately this was not their first offense.

The SMS Group was brought in to analyze the problem, design a custom software solution to alleviate this problem, make it work within their current network and provide data and reports verifying the results and have all of this done in a extremely tight timeframe as the customer was threatening to find a new supplier.

Solution:

• The SMS Group provided this customer with a software package designed with SMS CORE 2000 that enabled them to:
• Using a bar code label, each skid or pallet has it’s own identity or license plate
• Within that skid, all model and serial numbers are identified and tracked
• This information is compared against a master client server or on the network to ensure proper fulfillment of each order
• This data is stored on the network and several customized reports can be generated from that data.

Benefits to that Customer:

• Product verification is being performed for each product
• Layer verification is being performed to verify that each layer is correct
• Shipping label verification for each skid
• Skid or pallet verification throughout the shipping process
• Less label use
• Communications from handheld terminals / devices to pack verification computer and database is all RF
• Provides tracking of serial numbers to individual customers

Don’t change your entire shipping process to a canned package that makes you do things their way, take SMS CORE 2000 product from The SMS Group and have it tailored to meet your organizations needs.