Reinvent Your Warehouse Management User Experience

Warehouses are becoming increasingly dynamic as businesses become more complex and shorter lead times are promised to customers. This creates challenges for organizations without the scale and access to large amounts of capital to invest into warehouse management technology. Other players rely on unreliable radio frequency devices with limited network range or simply printed sheets of paper to route their warehouse activities. These limitations can make it difficult to effectively and efficiently meet lead time demands. The broader challenges faced by these small to large companies can be further summarized below.

Visibility into Warehouse Operations

• Lack of access to real-time warehouse performance

• Undue focus on transactional tasks with little insight into upcoming workload

TYPICAL WAREHOUSE MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES

Productivity Challenges

• Offline, paper-based process resulting in inefficiencies

• Trigger quality inspections and cycle counts on the go

Aging, Unreliable Technology

• Complex, hard to use technology

• Limited flexibility and effectiveness

OperationalCosts

Limited Collaboration

• Limited capabilities beyond basic warehouse activities (picking, put away, etc.)

• Lack of real-time communication between workers

• Manual processes driving higher labor costs

• Costly radio frequency (RF) scanning hardware

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For more information, please contact: Mukul Nagle, Managing Director Deloitte Consulting LLP mnagle@deloitte.com

BENEFITS OF APPLE DELOITTE SOLUTIONS

• Advanced warehouse solutions for Employee & Supervisor

• Dynamic warehouse task assignment

• Lower cost mobile devices with Radio Frequency capability

• Facetime & other mobile collaborations

• Visibility into warehouse work queue

• Employee & resource location tracking

I M P R O V I N G W A R E H O U S E M A N A G E M E N T

O N E B O X A T A T I M EWarehouse management operations play a critical role in meeting customer fill rate targets. Standard ERP and advanced warehouse solutions aid in the facilitating and structuring of the warehouse activities, but leave opportunity for improvement in the execution and overall user productivity. Deloitte’s Warehouse Management Suite can provide a lower cost alternative that answers to many of these pain points.

S U I T E O V E R V I E WDeloitte’s Warehouse Management Suite is built with a design thinking approach to help empower warehouse workers and supervisors with high-productivity tools and real-time process monitoring. The solution contains complementary applications, one for the warehouse employee executing the warehouse transactions and another for the warehouse supervisor that provides real-time visibility into warehouse activity, worker locations and performance metrics.

POTENTIAL BUSINESS IMPACT

Intuitive, ProductiveUser Experience

• Built on iOS and enabled withApple Touch

• Warehouse Supervisor application-enabled iPad

DigitalCollaboration

Efficient Resource Allocation

Proactive Task Management

Real-timeData Access

• Load data through standard SAP Fiori enabled applications

• Digitally enabled collaboration between staff

• Audio and video training materials

• Assign tasks based on worker locations

• Perform real-time, remote QA inspections and cycle counting

• Dashboard for supervisor to track real-time metrics

• Daily workload view for employees

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