HORIBA Europe GmbH
Customer: HORIBA Europe GmbH
Project duration: 2 years
[nbsp]Our customer:
HORIBA Europe GmbH offers a wide range of instruments and systems for various applications worldwide. Products for the automotive testing industry, process and environmental technology, medical diagnostics, semiconductor manufacturing and the field of molecular [&] elemental analysis for research, quality control and laboratory analysis.
[nbsp]Initial situation:
In the past, Horiba already used shuttle lifts without SAP connection for the storage of small parts. The operation and maintenance of the lifts became increasingly difficult and expensive in recent years.
Therefore, Horiba commissioned the company Kardex Deutschland GmbH to install four new lifts as part of a new procurement and expansion of the existing shuttle lifts. In the future, these were to be controlled directly from SAP as well as the existing mobile applications based on the SAP add-on solution Mobysis. The individual storage bins of these lifts and all other storage bins were to be included in a new storage location without having to introduce SAP WM and fundamentally change the existing processes.
In the project, two database tables were set up in SAP IM to map the storage bins and their stocks as well as the serial numbers of the materials stored there. This made it possible to conveniently avoid the introduction of SAP WM.
Mobile transactions are used to control goods movements within the newly created storage location. With simplified, user-friendly dialogs, storage and retrieval, inventory bookings and the control of the Kardex Shuttle can be triggered via mobile devices in the warehouse.
- Complete control from SAP with the HPC solution for vertical lifts
- Investment protection of existing production logistics
- ROI
- Communication via SAP standard interfaces
- Easy integration into customer-specific processes and reduction of the required learning effort
- Problem-free integration of MDE or scanner solutions
- A vendor-independent solution (Kardex, SSI Schäfer, Hänel ...)
What did HPC do?
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- Creation of two database tables to map all newly defined storage bins as well as the stored serial numbers for the material
- Storage in the new storage location, in particular in the Kardex Shuttle
- Transfer within the new storage location and shuttles, as well as to other storage locations.
- Picking (picking to project order, to network, etc.)
- Development of a storage location search algorithm for the shuttles, which automatically queries the next shuttles for free storage locations depending on the same storage location type after a predefined number of occupied storage locations.
- Mobile control of the Kardex Shuttle takes place via tablet or handhelds
- Mobile stocktaking within the newly established storage location structure
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Customer benefits:
- More storage capacity in the same amount of floor space
- Faster storage and retrieval processes thanks to new Kardex Shuttle
- More accurate inventory overview
- Minimization of errors in material handling and thus fewer inventory differences
