The MATCH chain of supermarkets in Luxembourg has implemented Openbravo WMS, a component in the Openbravo Commerce Cloud platform, as a key building block of the transformation of its supply chain.
The retailer, part of Louis Delhaize SA food retail group, needed a more sophisticated warehouse management solution to support the modernization of its warehouse operations, which handle 20,000 SKUs and supply 28 stores in Luxembourg. The ultimate goal of this transformation is to improve its service to stores and customers.
“MATCH needed a solution that could support a new layout of its distribution center to allow the much more effective use of storage space and capacities,” says Luc-Pierre Maes, Managing Partner at aXialyze, the Belgium and Germany-based partner that implemented the project for Openbravo.
MATCH wanted to adopt a very-narrow-aisle (VNA) warehouse model which requires paying special attention to the organization of the order picking process as well as a dynamic replenishment of picking locations so as to reduce total travel distance and ensure optimal product availability.
The legacy WMS could not support this new requirement. By adopting Openbravo WMS, Match is improving the productivity of the 50 staff in the warehouse thanks to the smart tasks management feature which automatically presents the list of tasks ordered by priority and travel sequence on the operatives’ mobile devices.
“We were looking for a solution to support the transformation of our warehouse operations and implement the VNA model in order to optimize warehouse space and reduce significantly the time spent moving goods in the warehouse. We are very satisfied with Openbravo WMS as it has given us the agility we needed at a very competitive cost, allowing us to transform operations in a record time.” says Laurent Vanden Brande Supply Chain & ICT Director of Match.
