15. December 2022
One Warehouse IT Consulting at Scotch & Soda
In the last weeks, our team started into the final phase of the One Warehouse project at Scotch & Soda Amsterdam. Core of this projects is the centralisation of European logistics in one location for all business units of our client.
In this thrilling project, the latest product from Manhattan Active (MAWM) was implemented as a warehouse management system (WMS) into a high-performance IT infrastructure. With our consulting services, the processes in the business units of e-commerce, retail and wholesale were digitalised and optimised.
Project Phases at a Glance
IT Logistics Consulting and Supply Chain Management
Throughout the project, our VCE team followed an agile project management approach. Through flexible planning, the individual project phases could be carried out in a phased approach.
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Analysis of existing IT landscape
02
Design sessions to develop the new IT landscape
03
Preparation of test scenarios
04
Development work for new IT landscape
05
Testing of the IT landscape
06
Go-live of individual project phases incl. hyper care
07
Monitoring of defects and improvement potentials
08
Handover to operations
Process Optimisation
From Strategy to Implementation
In preparation for the go-lives, cutover strategies were created for a smooth transition from the old to the new IT landscape. In Smoke tests all processes were reviewed and tested in pre-defined end-to-end scenarios. Daily start-up meetings with the operations team were used for the fine-tuning of the new processes. In the project, the go-lives were executed in these phases:
- May 2022 – Relocation wholesale division into new warehouse building
- July 2022 – Relocation of retail division moves into new warehouse with switchover to new IT landscape (using MAWM)
- September 2022 – Cutover of wholesale from old software to Manhattan WMS
- October 2022 – Go-live of retail and first e-commerce division
- February 2023 – Go-live of remaining e-commerce division incl. outlet
Further Services
Functions and Adaptations
In addition to the implementation of a new state-of-the art software landscape other key objectives of the project were the improvement of IT infrastructure and process optimisation. In this context, the consideration of dependency with other projects and workflows as well as resource planning was an important factor in the consulting services. The VCE team ensured the successful integration of the new software into the new IT infrastructure. Furthermore, all printed documents such as shipping labels, packing slip and invoices were newly generated according to the optimised end-to-end processes.
We consider the agile project management as a key success factor of the challenging project. We would like to thank our client Scotch & Soda for the trust they have placed in us and for the successful cooperation and look forward to the remaining phases of the One Warehouse project.
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