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Published on: October 15, 2009
Type of content: CASE STUDY
Format: Unknown
Length: 2 pages
Price: FREE

Overview:
With products sold in more than 50 countries worldwide, Welch's faced an increasing number of supply chain challenges related to the management of high-volume incoming and outgoing perishable goods, continually expanding product lines, increasingly rigorous lot tracking requirements and evolving customer demands. The company's production facilities were collecting more information on the flow of materials and inventory than ever before and they needed an effective, accurate method for collecting and managing this data. Moreover, accelerating the speed of transactions from the order of raw materials through shipment of final product was critical to achieving lean, streamlined operations.

Welch's had recently implemented Oracle™ Process Manufacturing (OPM). In order to fully leverage their new enterprise system, the company needed to automate the cumbersome, manual processes that were slowing things down on their plant floors. Welch's selected the TAKE Supply Chain Gemini™ for OPM mobile software solution and Compliance Label Manager (CLM), a barcode and radio-frequency identification (RFID) label management solution. TAKE's success in improving the speed, visibility, accuracy and control of extended manufacturing and distribution supply chains - especially within the food and beverage industries - coupled with Gemini's broad product set and integration with OPM, made it the perfect fit for Welch's.

Read this case study to learn how Welch's was able to significantly increase inventory data quality and visibility, and access to real-time information by utilizing CLM and Gemini for OPM.