As a premier distributor of liquor, Saratoga sees thousands of new SKUs a year, and expanded to a new 43,000 sq. ft. warehouse space. Logistically, they knew that they needed a solution for inventory management that could handle the large volumes of new products, and that would fit their project deadline of 90 days for a full rollout. The scope of the project was new to Saratoga, as they’ve never implemented a WMS before. When asked about what helped them make their decision, Steve, the company’s IT manager had this to say: “The wireless capability and wide variety of mobile technology available were certainly highlights, but we needed a system that made it easy to set up new bins + warehouses on the fly.” – Steven Smith, Manager, Information Technology.
After a quick decision-making period, Saratoga chose The Inventory Platform after their first meeting, after getting a chance to see it live in another client’s distribution operation. Working with a variety of ERP software in the past, The Inventory Platform was recommended based on the adaptability of the system, being able to work across existing Microsoft systems.
With a deadline of just under three months, the expedited training protocol was put into place, that had all necessary employees up and running within the new system. Steven describes the implementation process as “Straight-forward” and highlights the ability to use wave-set picking and split orders while loading trucks in reverse order as a key feature that’s been saving their drivers a great deal of time: “The nature of the app is very user-friendly…adding bins is as easy as excel sheets. “Where we used to write down every credit and bin transfer by hand, now we can be wireless and out there in front of the product.”
