Broomfield, CO and San Diego, CA, May 20, 2020 — A leading U.S. e-commerce and wholesale auto parts company is optimizing inventory, space and resources within its fulfillment center via a best-of-breed warehouse management system (WMS).
San Diego-based Buy Auto Parts, LLC, operates in a highly competitive market place where shipping the right part quickly, the first time and on time is critical – and straight away the ROI from its new SnapFulfil Tier 1 WMS has seen efficiency-driving picks per hour increase by more than 50 percent since its implementation.
With a cloud-based WMS, Buy Auto Parts can also better manage their non-traditional summer peak season by maintaining deeper visibility into inventory levels and process efficiencies. This is especially helpful for bulkier inventory such as radiators, air conditioning compressors and wheel hub assemblies, plus other parts where they don’t store large amounts of stock.
“One of the biggest areas it’s helped improve is our pick, pack and ship operational efficiencies and the ability to wave orders by due-out date,” said John Salvatore, vice president of Buy Auto Parts operations. “I can now prioritize them any way I want, plus when the same item is housed in different areas of the warehouse, SnapFulfil picks from the lowest inventory level to the highest, so managers can better monitor inventory levels. It intuitively knows, for example, to pick a carburetor from a stock of one rather than a carburetor from a stock of 10, thus maximizing available space.”
Pending initiatives include improving reverse logistics operations using the WMS, because some of the company’s products have several components – and it’s looking to shorten the time items are restocked so customer refunds can be issued in a timely manner. Additionally, Buy Auto Parts is working with SnapFulfil on an enhanced inventory cycle count program, so it can enhance inventory accuracy to better serve its growing customer base and their ever-increasing delivery demands.
“Managing a strong reverse logistics operation requires a healthy set of technology-driven automated procedures and systems, because they capture and evaluate increasingly important data sets from every step in the process,” added SnapFulfil CEO North America, Don White. “Being cloud-based, SnapFulfil offers immense flexibility to handle dynamic return operations as well as easy integration with other company systems to facilitate a much more holistic return operation.”
Another of SnapFulfil’s major benefits is the immediate productivity improvements made possible by the system’s automated task management functionality. In addition to accurately recording and verifying inbound goods at both receiving and put-away, it also drives a rolling inventory count allowing any discrepancies to be identified in a timely manner – with records adjusted accordingly to maintain the highest levels of stock accuracy and integrity.”
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