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Granite WMS helps Grey's Marine achieve cold chain integrity


Johannesburg, 02 Apr 2015

Grey's Marine has implemented Granite Warehouse Management Software from Cradle Technology Services at its Cape Town production plant.

Grey's Marine processes and packages many of the packaged fish products supplied to Woolworths. It receives whole fish in bulk from various suppliers, which is then cleaned, portioned, packaged and distributed to Woolworths stores countrywide.

Fact sheet
Solution: Granite Warehouse Management
Industry: Seafood distribution
Provider: Cradle Technology Services
User: Grey's Marine

As the whole fish are received, visibility in Granite begins with the identification of exactly what has been received from whom, against which purchase order. Granite manages the stock of this raw material in the cold storage facility. Production planning determines what must be issued to the factory, and this movement is performed using Granite and a mobile scanner. Granite manages and reports on the stock on hand in the cold store.

Thereafter, cleaning, portioning, weighing and packaging proceeds based on the demands of the individual stores.

Each portioned package is scanned at the end of production, capturing production batch, product code, weight and price, and linking this to a unique 2D QR tracking entity code. This code allows for full traceability from source to destination and helps maintain the all-important cold chain integrity.

After an inspection process, the product is moved to finished goods and then each pack is scanned into a holding location for each store. Grey's Marine is able to tell exactly when a pack was made and which products went to each store. A delivery note and dispatch report confirm the shipments per store and traceability is recorded.

This allows Grey's Marine to pack and dispatch faster, once again maintaining the cold chain integrity, and removing human error in terms of incorrectly read product codes and incorrectly dispatched product.

Due to the nature of Grey's Marine's product, time, accuracy and traceability are of utmost importance.

Time to extend shelf-life and product availability... cold chain integrity. Accuracy to avoid incorrectly packed and dispatched product, which could become spoiled if moved around to much... cold chain integrity. Traceability to manage and trace to supply any sub-standard product... cold chain integrity.

With Granite WMS, Grey's Marine is now proudly able to maintain and prove its 100% cold chain integrity. Additional phases still to be implemented include receiving and management of packing material and dry goods, and additional validation of product going to stores by picking against a planned store replenishment order.

Cradle Technology Services is a the developer of the Granite WMS, a leading mid-market warehouse and tracking system. Cradle strives to provide its clients with a turnkey solution from design and management of the solution, supply of hardware and software, consulting and implementation services and even bar code or RFID labels.

For more information, visit www.cradle.co.za or contact the company by e-mail on marketing@cradle.co.za.

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Sheldon Vermaak
Cradle Technology Services
(+27) 83 440 5115
sheldonv@cradle.co.za