Warehouse transparency with Peakboard
Prym Group
challenges
Transparency about workloads for employees in the areas of high-bay warehouses, order picking and warehouse control centers
solution
Introduction of Peakboard at the Alsdorf site and provision of dashboards with information on transport orders in the areas of high-bay warehousing and order picking via three monitors
benefits
- Graphical visualization of SAP data
- Transparency about workloads for warehouse employees
- More efficient planning of work assignments
Time to Value
A few weeks for project implementation, from data connection to creation of dashboards to production
The Prym Group, founded in 1530 as a company producing brass and copper, is Germany's oldest industrial family business. The core competencies of the Stolberg-based group of companies today include creative products for handicrafts and hobbies, locking systems and accessories, and high-precision electromechanical components. The Prym Group has around 3,300 employees worldwide at locations in Europe, Asia, Latin/North America and Africa. The group comprises the four segments Prym Consumer, Prym Fashion, Prym Intimates and INOVAN, which are independent of the market. The group of companies is headed by Prym Management Holding.
“With Peakboard, we have a quick and efficient way to make adjustments to the distribution of work. ”
Processes, information, and data in real time
Making life easier for people: That is Prym's aim — and not only for customers, but also for its own employees: An idea of how to make things easier for forklift drivers and order pickers in the Prym Consumer division warehouse came from Oliver Fischer, head of logistics and the goods center, his colleague Charles Overtus, operational manager of the goods center, and Tomas Hoesch, responsible for organization and project management related to SAP, as part of a trade fair visit.
Green light for Peakboard
By means of a free test, Prym was initially able to see for itself whether Peakboard really allows processes, information and data to be visualized in real time and placed prominently for employees in all areas as Peakboard promises: The all-in-one solution consists of software and hardware, combined in a smartphone-small aluminum box with an integrated WLAN module. Since Peakboard automatically visualizes the data, the solution can without a central server be used. Peakboard accesses a data source directly via WLAN or LAN, aggregates the data for visualization and transmits it to the desired (large) screen via an HDMI cable. Possible data sources range from machines, sensors, ERP systems such as SAP to Excel and cloud solutions.
All transport orders always in view
The open and completed workloads of the respective working day are shown in bar charts. Around 1,200 transport order dispositions are processed daily in the high-bay warehouse and around 9,000 in the order picking area.
Peakboard logs in as a user every 90 seconds in SAP system , runs the corresponding queries and then drags the data onto the respective dashboard. Prym uses a total of three monitors, which are equipped with two different dashboards. The employees in the high-bay warehouse or in the order picking department find out about the respective workload via a monitor at the entrance to their area. The warehouse control center alternately displays the two dashboards from order picking and high-bay warehouse.
“A huge advantage for us is that we can control the processing of transport orders much more efficiently with Peakboard,” says Hösch. “With Peakboard, the control center can see at a glance whether, for example, there is a high number of transport orders for replenishment and can therefore deduct additional forklift drivers from incoming goods to replenishment. We can react much more flexibly to each situation. ”
In addition, the approximately 40 employees from high-bay warehouses and order picking who use Peakboard benefit from the newfound transparency: They see exactly where they stand, what they have done and feel motivated to “go green” with the orders.
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