Topographic Audit of Fertiliser Silos with Inventory of Stores, Distribution Centres and Factories
Case Study
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Auditors
8
Days
21
Items
55,000
A German multinational company based in Düsseldorf, which operates business membership only cash and carry stores, required the support of RGIS. More than 14,000 employees work in 103 wholesale stores in Germany alone. Worldwide, the cash and carry chain is represented in 28 countries, with around 670 stores and employs more than 150,000 people worldwide. The company has a broad range of assortment consisting of up to 20,000 food items and up to 30,000 non-food articles.
THE CHALLENGE
The cash and carry chain required RGIS to provide the following:
- Capture average weight detail of each SKU (Stock Keeping Unit) using five samples of each item
- Identify variances of weight in the same product
- To be completed outside working hours so there was no disruption to the business
Why RGIS?
The cash and carry chain needed a solution to weigh stock items so the data could be integrated into a self-service checkout system.
Our Solutions
The cash and carry chain partnered with RGIS to complete the stock items weight project, and RGIS provided the following:
Scheduled eight experienced RGIS auditors for 21 days, after the stores had closed
RGIS auditors worked in teams of two
The scales provided were connected via Bluetooth to an app, where the data was made available to the customer
Weighed the items and recorded the results
For each SKU, five items were weighed to give an accurate average
Identified the weight difference between the same products
Calculated the variances of the weight of the same products
Results
The cash and carry chain found by outsourcing the stock items weight project to RGIS, the following results were achieved:
The customer had the specific stock weight data that was required
55,000 different items were accurately weighed
The data was instantly made available to the customer by an app connected via Bluetooth to the scales
Conclusion
By partnering with RGIS to deliver an out-of-hours stock item weight survey, the cash and carry chain obtained accurate, SKU-level weight data without disrupting trading. RGIS’s disciplined sampling methodology and technology-enabled data capture identified weight variances across products and delivered real-time results. As a result, the customer gained reliable weight benchmarks for over 55,000 items to support improved inventory accuracy, control, and analysis.
