REDMOND, Wash., May 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- COMFY, the leading
Ukrainian electronics and home appliance retailer, recently
deployed a custom warehouse management solution based on Microsoft
Dynamics AX 2009 to help manage warehouse logistics, resulting in
streamlined processes, reduced costs, increased productivity and
better space allocation.
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COMFY opened its first retail store in December 2005 and by 2011 had expanded to 78
stores in 37 cities throughout Ukraine. This rapid growth made it difficult
to maintain a streamlined logistics infrastructure to distribute
goods three times a week across all stores.
To help manage warehouse logistics, COMFY needed to improve
business processes and automate company operations for sites with
different types of storage. In addition, the company needed to make
more efficient use of warehouse space, to enable real-time
decision-making and increase employee productivity.
COMFY turned to international consulting firm Columbus, a
Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with retail vertical experience,
for a solution. Columbus designed a system to automate business
processes and ensure an integrated IT environment with servers
running Microsoft Dynamics AX Application Object Server (AOS), and
Microsoft SQL Server as a database management system. Microsoft
Dynamics AX provides the flexibility for customizing an enterprise
resource planning (ERP) system to meet COMFY's industry-specific
needs.
"Microsoft Dynamics AX significantly enhances our ability to
control processes at the central warehouse," said Andrew Prystavka,
director of warehouse logistics at COMFY. "It allows us to quickly
identify bottlenecks and find system solutions to address
them."
Microsoft Dynamics AX gave COMFY a people-centered, end-to-end
solution that helps employees work more efficiently and inspires
them to do their jobs better. Many systems today focus solely on
retrospective views and data, which can be frustrating and useless
when faced with a unique logistical crisis. Microsoft Dynamics AX
offers proactive and forward-looking systems that connect people to
their work and provide real-time insights that enable better
decision-making.
During the first two months after implementing the system using
Microsoft Dynamics AX, COMFY increased productivity by 10 percent
while reducing operational costs. "We expect to increase employee
productivity at the distribution center by 1.5 times and reduce the
cost of handling goods in all of our shops," said Andrew Zavizion, logistics director at
COMFY.
The custom warehouse management solution, based on Microsoft
Dynamics AX, helps automate logistics management processes at the
primary COMFY distribution center to improve key business
processes, including tracking and delivery of inventory, systems
monitoring, and data extraction and analysis, delivering the
following benefits:
- Increased service levels, including pick accuracy and
deliveries on time and in full
- Reduction in unit cost of inventory turnover
- Greater employee productivity and satisfaction
- Better use of warehouse space and equipment
- Quick and easy identification of storage bottlenecks
Microsoft Dynamics solutions empower your people to be more
productive and your systems to last longer and scale as your
business grows, while enabling you to derive the insights necessary
to respond quickly in an ever-changing world of business.
Information on COMFY's Microsoft Dynamics AX deployment, and
additional Microsoft customer implementation news, is available on
the Microsoft Customer Spotlight News Center.
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SOURCE Microsoft Corp.