Tuesday Morning Expands Capacity With Interlink Technologies WMS

Tuesday Morning, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is a close-out retailer with more than 850 stores across the United States. Tuesday Morning is a nationally recognized company that began in 1974, specializing in deeply discounted, upscale home furnishings, housewares, gifts and related items. Tuesday Morning's distribution center encompasses over one million square feet, 45 shipping docks, 300 storage trailers and 400 carrier haulers. Operations are spread over 4 warehouse locations with over 100,000 new SKUs each year.


Tuesday Morning used a paper-driven WMS developed internally which used spreadsheets to manage all warehouse activities. Tuesday Morning was experiencing data entry delays, lost paperwork and misplaced product which caused processing delays.


Tuesday Morning selected Interlink Technologies as their WMS provider based on Interlink's flexibility, integration and customization capabilities as well as excellent references and price fit. Interlink's WMS solution interfaced with the automated material handling systems.


Tuesday Morning recorded the following results one year after the successful implementation:

•Doubled product flow through the warehouse
•Achieved 50% labor reduction
•Reduced cycle count time by 93%
•Realized a 6 month return on investment •Increased productivity 400%
•Reduced physical inventory from 40 hours to 4 hours


WHSe-LINK® provides Tuesday Morning real-time tools to manage their inventory and perform critical-path functions: manage then receive inbound loads and product, schedule and run production processing with real-time price tickets and packaging for store distribution, and direct group-route product aggregation and consolidation for efficient outbound shipments. Additional implementations at Tuesday Morning have included integrations with a new ERP/accounting system, pack-to-Light system, pick-to-Light system, allocation system, and e-Commerce.




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Impact Products Boosts Warehouse Potential With Interlink

Impact Products, LLC, based in Toledo, Ohio, is an international marketer of branded and private-label non-chemical commercial cleaning, maintenance and safety products. Impact's products includes a full line of microfiber, cleaning/dusting/mopping equipment, receptacles, washroom, dispensing, material handling, gloves, and safety products. Impact utilizes multiple channels of distribution to reach the end user in the sanitary maintenance, food service, safety and industrial markets.


Impact's distribution facility operated in a paper driven environment. Warehouse transactions were not real-time, labor intensive, prone to error and inhibited multi-shift operations. Impact decided improving and automating the warehouse processes with a Warehouse Management System (WMS) would allow for continued growth in the existing facility. Interlink's software, Warehouse-LINK®, offered Impact a warehouse operations solution through the use of desktop applications and Radio Frequency (RF) devices. 


Interlink also developed an order planning function, which enables the user to quickly organize order information in a user customized format. This process affords the user the ability to plan over a future time horizon, direct pick location replenishment and release order processing by individual pick modules - all at the click of a mouse.


The most immediate improvement Impact experienced was the real time processing of transactions within Warehouse-LINK®. The visibility to the entire operation by the management staff has significantly reduced decision making time. The management team is now in more control of the order process and shipping. The shipping team can now see all order details and status of each item throughout the picking process. The ability to seamlessly transition to a multiple shift operation is another significant key feature. Warehouse-LINK® software has eliminated non-value added activities from the legacy system. This resulted in a 17% reduction in warehouse labor. Recent order processing volumes have increased 13% over the same period in the previous year. Said Brian Paul, Vice President of Operations at Impact Products, "Our partnership with Interlink has enabled growth and efficiency that we would not have otherwise been able to accomplish."


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M&B Products Increases Profits, Customer Satisfaction With Interlink's WMS

M&B Products, Inc. is a supplier of juice and milk related products to the food service industry including schools, nursing homes, hospitals and prisons. Located in Temple Terrace, Florida the business was founded in 1987 and has grown into a distribution network throughout 33 states.

M&B's warehouse operations used a paper driven system that could not offer real-time information and therefore forecasting decisions were based on best guesses and hoping that product would be available. The lack of real-time knowledge did not allow efficient use of space and required M&B to use additional outside storage with limited knowledge of what was actually in outside storage. Physical inventory was performed every month. It was a very time consuming process that did not yield real-time or accurate numbers.

As the business grew, the paper system was unable to provide a guarantee that they were shipping the oldest product first. M&B's requirements for a WMS included interfacing smoothly with the existing accounting solution on the IBM iSeries platform, as well as address the top three business priorities: 1.Customers were getting properly dated product
2.They were shipping the oldest product first
3.They were using real, live, actual inventory information of what was on hand to manage inventory levels

Since implementing Interlink Technologies' Warehouse-LINK® WMS system, M&B has accurate, live inventory that is traceable and designed to provide the best possible customer experience. Another important benefit achieved by implementing Warehouse-LINK® WMS is efficient space utilization and the ability to conduct inventory cycle counts. M&B uses the cycle count feature to confirm physical inventory, which makes the process a lot faster. Through the Warehouse-LINK® system staff are able to confirm inventory count with a might higher degree of accuracy than before.

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