Case Study
Optimizing Shipping and Distribution Automation
Achieved 209% ROI and 60% Labor Savings
Streamlining Operations Amidst Integration Complexities
- A medical test kit logistics provider needed to standardize and improve the capabilities of its existing shipping and distribution platform. This also included risk reduction via retirement of home-grown applications supporting quality management, shipping, and distribution processes.
- Due to the level of integration complexity and risk associated with quality process changes and warehouse automation, the client engaged Valent Partners to improve and standardize shipping and distribution business processes across all warehouse locations via software and hardware automation.
Phased Approach to Automation and Standardization
Valent Partners evaluated business processes, supporting platforms, and future automation opportunities to define solution recommendations and a go-forward strategy.
- Assess
- Identified, categorized, and prioritized functional and technical requirements supporting end-to-end business processes
- Defined standardized future-state processes across all warehouse sites
- Researched off-the-shelf software platforms and automation technologies
- Strategy
- Developed warehouse hardware automation maturity model to guide client's level of automation
- Designed candidate solution options and supporting technical architectures
- Performed detailed analysis vendors' ability to meet requirements solution options and selected platform based on cost, ROI, and implementation effort/risk
- Evaluated solution options and selected platform based on cost, ROI, and implementation effort/risk
- Prioritize and Plan
- Prioritized MVP features based on business impact and time to value
- Created a resource plan, project budget, and accompanying implementation roadmap across sites
Achieved 209% ROI and 60% Labor Savings
- Valent Partners delivered a final readout of the assessment, including the solution recommendation, which enabled a 3-year ROI of 209% supported by 60% in labor savings
- Provided client leadership with implementation roadmap and phased rollout plan to support solution implementation
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