Central Warehouse & DistributionStreamline operations and improve productivity
Central warehouse and distribution facilities face unique and complex challenges. OneSource is here to help you take control of your school food service department’s central warehouse and shipping functions by managing everything from procurement and receiving to order consolidation, fulfillment, and shipping.
Streamline your warehouse and shipping operations
- Maintain warehouse inventory levels and rapidly process receipt of shipments
- Utilize state-of-the-art procurement
- Identify shortages and make substitutions prior to order pulling
- Update inventory levels automatically as items are shipped
- Pull orders based on location and route
Manage order fulfillment and substitutions
- Consolidate orders easily
- Handle shortages that are identified automatically by the system after orders have been consolidated and before orders are pulled
- Choose from three ways to handle shortages: expedite incoming warehouse orders to determine if received quantities will eliminate the shortage, modify menu plans, and/or make substitutions
- Use the search engine to find substitutes and view the available quantities on hand
- Make site-specific substitutions or perform global substitutions for all sites—Orders are automatically updated and site managers are notified
- Include site-specific messages in their delivery tickets
Handle shipping processes with ease
- Intuitive shipping features make this process more efficient.
- Print pick tickets in route order, inventory group order, location order by site or in summary format.
- Schedule orders to be shipped on designated days by type such as frozen/cooler/dry storage items
- Print delivery tickets for managers to sign. Delivery tickets include all pertinent information and are auto-reconciled by the system with site receiving reports after delivery
- Process add-on orders in less than a minute—a quick way to handle emergency orders
- Generate useful reports: Shipping Reports, Shipping Exceptions, Incomplete Orders, Backorders, Refused Shipments, Shipping Errors and Shipping Summary
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- Anticipate and fulfill site orders using integrated tools
- Maintain on-hand balances
- Produce pick tickets by route and type
- Generate audited delivery tickets
With Horizon's Central Warehouse module, Bibb has been able to improve on-hand inventory values at its school sites by as much as 75%.
"School sites previously had an average of $25,000 in on-hand inventory. Now, they have between $5,000 and $6,000."
Dr. Cleta Long,
Bibb County School District
Download the Bibb County Case Study.
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