Atlanta Bonded Warehouse Standardizes Warehouse Operations
Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
- America
Country
- United States
Product
- Blue Yonder’s warehouse management
- Blue Yonder’s labor management
- Blue Yonder’s digital platform
Tech Stack
- Warehouse Management System (WMS)
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Productivity Improvements
- Customer Satisfaction
Technology Category
- Functional Applications - Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)
Applicable Functions
- Warehouse & Inventory Management
Use Cases
- Warehouse Automation
- Inventory Management
Services
- System Integration
About The Customer
Atlanta Bonded Warehouse Corporation (ABW) is a company that has been providing public and contract food-grade, temperature-controlled distribution services for over 60 years. The company has grown to 3.8 million square feet of modern, high cube storage and distribution capacity in 12 facilities across the southeast. ABW is a dynamic company that onboards a new customer about once every three weeks and has a rapid growth rate. They sought to standardize their warehouse operations and the services they provide in order to be an all-in-one provider to their supply chain customers.
The Challenge
Atlanta Bonded Warehouse Corporation (ABW) has been providing public and contract food-grade, temperature-controlled distribution services for over 60 years. The company has grown to 3.8 million square feet of modern, high cube storage and distribution capacity in 12 facilities across the southeast. ABW sought to standardize their warehouse operations and the services they provide in order to be an all-in-one provider to their supply chain customers. However, ABW’s paper-based legacy system made this very challenging. ABW’s goals were to implement a highly configurable warehouse management system (WMS) that would offer more functionality than their legacy system and to move their customers’ products through their supply chains in a much more efficient manner, while retaining the ability to track and trace food lot codes to support food safety requirements.
The Solution
ABW implemented Blue Yonder’s warehouse management and labor management systems. The extensive configuration capabilities of the Blue Yonder digital platform enabled ABW to standardize warehouse operations, thus improving visibility and accuracy. With extra functionalities within warehouse management, such as track and trace, ABW saw significant improvement in customers’ level of confidence. The speed of delivery is very important to Atlanta Bonded Warehouse. Their environment is very dynamic. They onboard a new customer about once every three weeks. Their growth rate has been extremely rapid so the ability to have support from Blue Yonder to address needs as they onboard new customers and explore new functionality is very important for them.
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