Benefits Beyond Metrics

Softeon's Suite Delivers on Countless Levels

Multiple factors contribute to the ROI of every Softeon implementation. We address ROI based on what the business needs, not from simply a standard template of functionality. Some examples are:

Beverage Industry: Softeon focuses on accurate receiving and picking using voice/RF technology to drive high velocities of transactions, better load planning and route management.

3PL Industry: Softeon offers the quickest on-boarding of new clients, employs a powerful rules based billing engine that drives better revenue models and handles complex integration of EDI and external ERP/Financial Systems. Through our architecture we provide global visibility, making the 3PL efficient and also highly competitive when bidding for new customers logistics outsourcing needs.

Consumer Goods / Large Distribution Landscapes: Softeon provides advanced event and task management, streamlined picking, replenishment, staging and other floor operations, including the most cost-effective MHE equipment integration available.

Softeon solutions provide faster payback than our competitors in implementations of any size. Please contact us to learn how Softeon will improve your overall operations and provide you the greatest ROI possible, in the shortest timeframe.

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ROI is always a key factor to consider when implementing a WMS and related Supply Chain Execution Systems. Softeon employs a Rapid Implementation Methodology that, when combined with our web-based design, platform independence, and open standards (such as Java, Services Oriented Architecture, native voice/RF/RFID capabilities, and an open database platform), positions Softeon to deliver ROI faster than anyone else in the industry. This architecture provides qualitative ROI, such as real-time visibility via the web to customers, and internal users and dashboards, such as forecasts, order status, inventory, receiving and shipping information, at a distribution center level or rolled up to a corporate view.

To produce an attractive ROI, Softeon considers every aspect of the operations, fine-tunes the processes and configures/re-engineers your landscape to obtain incremental benefits at every stage. This results in a cumulative ROI that is difficult for our competition to beat. Our customers consistently realize ROI far above of their own defined or planned goals.

Key Benefits:

Faster inventory turns

More efficient use of available warehouse space

Reduction in inventory paperwork

Improved cycle counting

Reduced dependency on warehouse personnel

Enhanced customer service

Improved labor productivity

Improved receiving and putaway

Order picking, packing, checking and shipping

Picking and
shipping accuracy

Outbound transportation savings

Reverse logistics

Faster inventory turns, improving the accuracy of inventory records to support a Just-In-Time environment increases inventory turnover and working capital utilization.

More efficient use of available warehouse space: Increase available warehouse space by more efficiently locating items in relation to receiving, assembly, packing, and shipping points.

Reduction in inventory paperwork: Receiving reports, pick tickets, move tickets, packing lists, etc., which are typically maintained as hard copies, can all be maintained electronically in a real time environment.

Improved cycle counting:
Computer controlled, rules-based cycle counts can improve the accuracy of inventory records for planning purposes and also eliminate the need for complete, costly physical inventories.

Reduced dependency on warehouse personnel:
Computer directed putaways and picks eliminate lost and or missing inventory, thus providing higher efficiency and faster response for the customer.

Enhanced customer service:
By streamlining all warehouse processes, companies can more accurately determine product availability and realistic delivery dates, automatically identify and release back-ordered inventory, and reduce returns as a result of increased shipment accuracy.

Improved labor productivity:
Real-time recording of all warehouse activities provides productivity information on an even plane for all employees. Knowing workload requirements in advance permits accurate and efficient scheduling of employees to avoid overtime or excess employees.

Improved receiving and putaway: Computer directed putaway will greatly improve the time required to clear off the dock, which improves overall flow of goods and the ability to receive and ship more volume through the facility.

Order picking, packing, checking and shipping: Computer directed activities eliminate order checking, sending pickers to empty bins or with the wrong equipment, and manual record keeping, and will enforce FIFO.

Picking and shipping accuracy: The ability to ship orders with 100% accuracy eliminates additional transportation cost spent today, to both ship the incorrect product back and ship the correct product out, and eliminates accounting paperwork.

Outbound transportation savings: Improved methods for order planning and scheduling, enabling orders to be released in waves such that outbound transportation shipment can be optimized in advance of order picking. Provides assurance that shipments are not released until all the orders and order segments for the shipment have been picked, packed and loaded onto the correct outbound trailer.

Also automatically generates documents such as shipping labels, bills of lading and shipment manifests, and consolidation of orders into an LTL shipment for a lower cost than if a small package carrier is shipping those orders.

Reverse logistics is greatly reduced by shipping 100% accurate orders to the customer's original order. However, other forces such as product recalls, wrong product orders, product damaged in shipping, etc. still cause returns. The implementation of a best of breed WMS will lend itself to ensuring that reverse logistics is handled in a timely manner and will greatly reduce manual intervention. Items requiring return will be identified immediately and the WMS will track the item through the returns process while creating all necessary return paperwork, and interface to accounting systems.