Bohn Propels Distribution Efficiency to New Heights with Zebra's RFID Solutions
Bohn is a prominent manufacturer in the industrial refrigeration sector, playing a crucial role in the cold chain industry in Mexico. Its refrigeration units are essential for storing temperature-sensitive foods, ensuring their safe preservation from production to consumption.
Zebra Success Story: Bohn
Overview: Manufacturing Challenge
Bohn faced challenges with its manual inventory management systems, which were time-intensive and prone to errors. The company’s processes required extensive preparation, with inventory counts taking up to six hours daily, and there was a notable risk of delivery inaccuracies due to manual handling. These inefficiencies prompted Bohn to seek a more modern and integrated approach to streamline operations and improve customer satisfaction.
Benefits / Outcomes
- Transitioned from a manual, time-consuming inventory system to a streamlined process, reducing inventory time from six hours to 30 minutes
- Resolved previous errors in shipments, ensuring equipment deliveries are accurate
- Implemented a more organized and efficient warehouse operation, reducing operational times and errors
About Bohn
Bohn is dedicated to manufacturing top-tier commercial and industrial refrigeration equipment. This technology plays a vital role in the cold chain, ensuring that foods maintain their quality and safety from production to consumption. Whether in convenience stores, small supermarkets or large refrigerated warehouses, Bohn’s refrigeration systems are integral to food preservation.
The Challenge
Previously, Bohn’s inventory systems were quite manual, requiring preparation of labels and scanning each piece of equipment days in advance—a tedious process that often led to errors, such as incorrect equipment deliveries. The company used to spend about six hours on inventory counts. With the new system, this process now takes only half an hour, greatly enhancing efficiency.
We now have a very organized warehouse, the operation times have greatly decreased a lot for the people who operate in the distribution center, the number of errors has decreased and for two consecutive years, we have achieved 100% reliable inventories and deliveries to our customers.
The Solution
The customized solution integrated rugged hardware from Zebra and software developed by ScanMex in conjunction with the Bohn IT team. This setup controls the flow of goods using RFID arches, Zebra MC3300 mobile computers and Zebra ZT411 printers for labeling and identification. As a result of these changes, Bohn’s warehouse is now highly organized, operational times have decreased significantly and the company has maintained 100% reliable inventories and deliveries for two consecutive years.
The Zebra Difference: Outcome and Benefits
This new application has been met with complete satisfaction. ScanMex proposed the devices and custom-developed software tailored specifically for Bohn’s needs, providing support at every stage. ScanMex recommends RFID technology to other companies, noting that, with proper testing, it offers agile data processing, real-time decision-making and enhanced process efficiency, streamlining operations that require precise control.
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