With an annual turnover of EUR 7.5 billion, the Rhenus Group is a leading global logistics service provider. Rhenus has 40,000 employees across 1,320 business sites. Rhenus Warehousing Solutions operates an extensive network that includes more than 180 locations in 23 countries, with over 4 million square meters of warehouse space. In Poland, Rhenus provides contract logistics services at 6 warehouses with 300k sqm of warehouse space.
Success Story
Rhenus
Warehouse Management
Rhenus in Poland optimizes its warehouses for flexible management and omni-channel success
The company
The business challenge
Across its warehouses in Poland, Rhenus relied on three different warehouse management systems (WMS), resulting in redundant data and an expensive, complicated technology infrastructure. These legacy systems were not only costly to maintain, but they impeded the company’s ability to sense and respond quickly to changing customer needs. Rhenus needed to modernize its WMS footprint, consolidate its data, optimize processes and increase automation by implementing a single, best-in-class solution.
The solution
In just six months, Blue Yonder’s warehouse management solution was rolled out for major Rhenus customers in a warehouse in Swadzim, Poland, leading to target wins in terms of speed, efficiency, accuracy and overall customer service. By embarking on the path of consolidating all its warehouses into a single WMS solution, Rhenus has taken the first major step toward end-to-end visibility, while significantly reducing the cost of ownership of the technology.
“Over the last few years, we’ve faced a pandemic, a war, inflation, higher labor costs, growing energy expenses and a shift to e-commerce. Our legacy warehouse management systems were simply not flexible enough to respond to these challenges. We needed a world-class solution that could optimize our warehouse performance in a dynamic environment, enabling us to meet customers’ ever-increasing demands for reliable service and fast delivery. Blue Yonder warehouse management system is that solution”
–Chief Innovation and Digitization Officer
Realizing improvements across the warehouse
“The intuitive nature of Blue Yonder’s WMS enabled us to quickly get employees up to speed — and start achieving results throughout the warehouse. We’ve been able to minimize handling time, accelerate the packaging process, optimize returns and increase profits as we maximize efficiency. By transitioning from paperwork to digitization, we’ve also significantly increased the sustainability of our warehouse operations.”
A robust, full-featured solution designed by warehousing experts
“Blue Yonder clearly understands warehousing and has designed a WMS solution that has all the capabilities we need. It easily accommodates our processes and integrates well with our other systems such as ERP, TMS and OMS. As a result, we have full visibility of the flow of orders and packages, as well as full transparency with our partners. It’s clear that Blue Yonder’s WMS has been proven and optimized over the course of many years.”
Ushering in a new age of technology innovation
“Our launch of Blue Yonder warehouse management system in Poland represents an important milestone for the company. It opens our organization up to new business opportunities as we increase our efficiency, operational flexibility, service and profitability through technology modernization and consolidation. It’s taking our company in a new direction.”
Solution benefits
Thanks to Blue Yonder’s warehouse management solution, Rhenus can sense and quickly adapt to changes, optimize warehouse tasks, and define priorities to meet customers’ cost and service expectations. The Blue Yonder solution ingests near real-time data about customer orders and available inventory, then synchronizes critical work processes to accurately match supply with demand. The solution is optimized for connectivity and easy integration with other systems. Combined with its ease-of-use, this drives rapid implementation and an early return on investment.
“Blue Yonder is a leader in warehouse management and optimization, as demonstrated by its presence at the top of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Warehouse Management Systems. It’s a single, proven system that’s also easily customizable. This is very important for Rhenus. We’re implementing Blue Yonder warehouse management across multiple locations that have different processes, but we can also achieve standardized reporting and management.”
–Chief Innovation and Digitization Officer
