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To address evolving customer requirements and develop new and innovative supply chain solutions, including crossdocking capabilities and other value-add products and services specifically designed to complement traditional temperature-controlled supply chain activities, Americold needed to upgrade from its legacy warehouse and labor management solutions.
With Blue Yonder, Americold has modernized its legacy warehouse environment through real-time visibility into delivery, labor management and operations to satisfy escalating customer expectations, save valuable resources and reduce overhead. The ability to optimize any order configuration from full pallets to mixed cases to eaches has enabled a highly flexible and responsive supply chain.
Greater workforce efficiency
Blue Yonder’s warehouse labor management capabilities have supported the implementation and monitoring of workforce incentives to promote associate productivity. Baseline metrics and KPIs provide the measuring stick to calibrate and reward performance, resulting in up to a 5 percent improvement in productivity. The system also enables more accurate forecasting for workforce planning by providing trends based on the latest labor standards. Americold is predicting the potential for up to 10 percent savings in labor costs when the warehouse labor management capabilities are implemented in certain locations.
Solution benefits
Reduced labor costs by 5% - 10% through more effective labor standards, monitoring and incentives. Offering flexible, more advanced warehouse management capabilities to support evolving marketplace requirements increased Americold profitability and customer loyalty. Reinvested savings from optimized warehouse operations into ongoing cold-chain innovation. Received national recognition for supply change transformation.
Blue Yonder’s expertise
To promote operational excellence, Americold has deployed the Blue Yonder solutions across a growing number of sites throughout its global network of temperature controlled warehouse operations. The implementations have supported the enablement of efficiency tools including voice-picking technologies, enhanced case- and each-pick functionalities, task interleaving, visibility and reporting. The solutions integrate with Americold’s supply chain control portal, providing greater transparency into inventory and enhanced order management capabilities for Americold’s customers.
