Project Description
Setting the course for strategic expansion and new products:
Overview of storage locations and inventories
Results of the project
- Overview of the entire quantity of a material in the warehouse
- Transparency over the stocks
- Thanks to a mobile, web-based scanning solution quick and easy storage and removal of goods is possible
- Lean storage and supply processes
- Opportunity to manage material flows on kanban principles
- Foresighted view of the workload in the coming days, so that warehouse movements can be executed on time
Wayand
The whole story
Wayand – The Customer
For nearly 50 years, WAYAND has been a reliable partner to the automotive industry. Due to its extensive manufacturing expertise in plastic body parts, WAYAND is one of the leading specialists for exclusive small and medium-sized series in Europe..
WAYAND has been manufacturing exterior and interior plastic components for the automotive industry as well as for companies in the agricultural and commercial vehicle sector for decades as a flexible, medium-sized company. Intelligent plastic solutions for energy and environmental technology complete this portfolio.
In a total of 5 factories, more than 350 employees ensure that WAYAND operates competently and reliably for its customers across the entire market.
Die Herausforderung: Auf einen Blick
- Better support in planning, monitoring, and optimizing work processes with a warehouse management system and picking with the help of mobile scanners
- Advantages in quality and costs with the help of a first-in-first-out method
- Quick implementation of stock placement and removal
- Dynamic warehousing to optimize the use of all storage bins and warehouse movements
Wayand – The Challenge
hen it comes to plastic components such as complete aerodynamic kits, front spoilers, rear valances, sidebars or extras – such as sport spoilers – the Wayand AG is first choice for many leading car manufacturers. For four decades, the company develops and produces interior and exterior components in exclusive small and medium series for cars, commercial and agricultural vehicles.
„As an automotive supplier, there is more and more pressure to keep up with our competitors. By using our SAP ® ERP solution the warehouse management is designed effectively in order to increase delivery performance significantly. At the same time, we have established streamlined storage and supply processes. Or in other words, the course for a strategic expansion of our product portfolio is set.“
An important key to success is the just-in-time delivery in Europe. Until now the manually managed central warehouse prevented a perfectly synchronized delivery of all components right into production. The first-in-first-out method could not be implemented consistently.
Wayand
Warehouse management and picking in SAP
Wayand – The Project
Overview of inventories and storage locations thanks to system-supported warehouse management in SAP
The Wayand AG manages its supply warehouse by using SAP ERP.
The company has an overview of resources and storage locations of components at any time. It can calculate bought-in parts as needed and provide the production steadily.
SAP data transmission solution accelerates the warehousing processes
Thanks to a mobile, web-based scanning solution quick and easy storage and removal of goods is possible and stockouts are avoided. This provides higher delivery performance and offers competitive advantages for the automotive supplier.
Dynamic warehousing to optimize the use of all storage bins and warehouse movements
In addition the SAP solution – implemented with the help of SERKEM – supports dynamic warehousing. This way the Wayand AG gains the flexibility required to efficiently manage a broader variety of on-demand parts in the future.
„Due to a more efficient warehouse management we can improve our delivery performance significantly. At the same time, we have set the course for a strategic expansion of our product portfolio”, says Brigitte Flaß-Wolf, Board Member, Wayand Inc.
