Bonduelle, a key player in the production of processed vegetables, was looking for a way to increase its warehouse efficiency. Since employees perform countless operations per day, mistakes are both time-consuming and costly. A Pozyx ultra-wideband real-time locating system brought accuracy front and center, reducing the number of misplaced assets. The result is a 3% increase in efficiency, saving the company hundreds of hours per warehouse, per year.
Small Mistakes
Cost Time and Money
Bonduelle’s fresh packed salad factory in San Paolo Italy depends on its employees to move hundreds of loads of fresh vegetables from production lines to locations of the warehouse as quickly as possible. With over 1400 pallet storage operations per day, small errors in misplacing a pallet in the 3000 m warehouse quickly add up. The company experienced significant time loss when pallets were misplaced and needed to be retrieved. Since time is crucial when working with ultra fresh foods, with sometimes less than 30 minutes between customer order reception to truck departure, Bonduelle wanted to be sure that pallets where stored exactly where they needed to be by controlling physically and in real time the position of the forklift drivers at storage confirmation in the WMS (Warehouse Management System). With turnaround times of fewer than 24 hours, speed and precision are vital: trucks need to be loaded on time and customers depend on Bonduelle to deliver. There is no time to look for lost products.