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FEATURE: IT INTEGRATION
Cipla
manufactures
more than
1,500 products
Cipla has a new
state-of-the-art
warehouse in
Bellville
Growth and the move to a
new facility
“A robust facility that allows Cipla to
meet its targets for accuracy and speed,
and support the business that is growing
rapidly,” said Ludorf.
The company moved to a new, state-
of-the-art warehouse facility in Bellville
and Cquential helped ensure that the
operations were transferred seamlessly
with minimal downtime. Mallaby said
this required a balanced approach that
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was cognisant of the need to keep the old
warehouse operations and processes going
while continuing to service customers, but
at the same time setting up the new facility,
configuring the system to handle new and
different processes and moving stock into
the new site. The fact that Cquential was
in both facilities and they had intimate
knowledge of the business operations was a
significant factor in ensuring the success of
the move to the new venue.
“Moreover, in the month of the move,
Cipla SA had its best month ever, so
one can understand how this increased
volume in sales added additional pressure,”
added Mallaby.
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Collaboration and strategic
planning partnership
Cquential was also extensively involved from
the early stages of planning, by providing
the data which was utilised for the design
and layout of the warehouse and racking
systems, through to the mapping of the
business processes in the new facility Cipla.
“The new warehouse has been carefully
designed to provide us with the perfect
distribution hub but achieving all those
efficiencies depends on the warehouse
management systems’ ability to control
incoming and outgoing stock with pinpoint
accuracy, co-ordinate picking with the
orders coming out of the ERP system and
ensure the right orders reach the courier,”
said Ludorf.
“All of this has to happen in an area that is
as large as three rugby fields and with pallet
stacks as high as 15.6 metres.” n
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