Многолетний опыт, воплощенный в новом бренде
Сегодня рынок ИТ-консалтинга обновляется, и у нас тоже есть новость: компания Columbus East, ранее входившая в состав датской компании, становится независимым международным игроком и меняет свое название. Новый бренд – Odyssey Consulting Group.
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Concept Group: optimizing the distribution center operation with Odyssey

The Odyssey consulting company has automated the distribution center of Concept Group, a major player in the Russian fashion market that produces and sells clothing under the brands Concept Club, Acoola, Infinity Lingerie, and Bestia. The retailer had been using a warehouse management system based on "1C" for several years. As the company developed, the number of nomenclature items and documents increased dramatically, and the former system, due to insufficient capacity, could no longer cope with the load. Working with the warehouse personnel was becoming increasingly difficult, as revision and support of the existing solution required significant resources. As a result, the company changed the system to Odyssey WMS based on Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012.

We considered different solutions, many of which needed serious modification for our processes. On the contrary, the system MicrosoftDynamicsAX 2012 met almost all the requirements and expectations, was flexible enough to configure, matched the already used solutions and technologies. The Odyssey team also made a good impression. We are dealing with professionals, and the launch will be successful
Konstantin Yeliseyev, ConceptGroup Distribution Centre Director
In my opinion, our decision was made not by the product, but rather by the partner. Odyssey has accumulated significant experience in warehouse logistics, and its system is used by many Russian retail chains. You may ruin the best solution in the world with an incompetent implementer and, conversely, you may succeed in implementing a mid-range system while working with professionals. The expertise of Vladimir Puchenkov's team and Odyssey WMS strengthened our choice
 Stanislav Gumnitsky, IT Director, Concept Group

 The new information system Odyssey WMS supports all the warehousing operations of the Concept Group distribution complex fulfilling the orders of retail and wholesale chains, online stores and franchise partners. The system is integrated with data collection terminals and label printers. As a result of implementation, the company got a more productive and transparent in terms of data exchange, optimized and streamlined the management of internal logistics, simplified the work of staff. Distribution center of the trading company works in twenty-four-hour mode, picks and ships from 100 to 120 thousand products every day.

Collections are changed 10-15 times per year, and the company's active assortment consists of about 7.5 thousand trade items. Odyssey WMS supports cross-docking and multi-item storage: goods are assigned to cells according to color, model and size depending on their life cycle. The warehouse complex includes several physically remote warehouses, each with specific algorithms. For example, in the discount warehouse, goods are stored in trays and may contain different nomenclatures of the same brand. In the main warehouse, goods in the storage cells are selected based on brand, product group and collection, and mixing of different product groups is not allowed. The project team fine-tuned the product placement algorithms so as to limit the number of product items in one mixed cell. In addition, the system is configured for consolidated shipment of goods selected from different warehouses.

Concept Group is now fine-tuning Odyssey WMS so that employees in the main warehouse can select only current goods according to collection parameters. With the help of the new system, the retailer makes optimal use of warehouse space and resources, and always has up-to-date and accurate data on goods movement and stock balances, which allows the company to save up to several million rubles for each brand every month. Before being shipped to stores, each product is labeled with product and price information. Employees at the retail outlet scan the label with a POS, get the information they need to sell, and place the goods on the sales floor. There is no oversorting, the documentation is prepared in full due to the orders picking control which is supported by Odyssey WMS system. Acceptance time in the store has been reduced by a factor of 10.

Another important indicator that we monitor is the percentage of direct picking errors. Thanks to the new system, we are confident in the completeness and accuracy of picking. For example, an online store on average picks 500-600 orders, while the warehouse is ready to process up to 3000 orders per shift. For an online store, this is a very good indicator. We can easily handle any seasonal sale, such as a massive one like Black Friday
Konstantin Eliseev, director of the Concept Group distribution center
All in all, the automation project took over a year. The new system was launched in stages due to the large amount of work, so the company was able to avoid serious disruptions in the work of the warehouse.  Of course, there is no escaping the complexities of implementation, no project can do without them. There are still errors, but they are not critical for our work, we are fully coping with them. However, there are now prospects for development in the warehouse, as operations have become more transparent, better controlled, and information is updated and transferred to managers in real time, which allows them to focus on strategic tasks
says Stanislav Gumnitsky
The company stresses that it was very easy for them to cooperate with the Odyssey team.  The Warehouse Management consultants are very energetic and competent, they truly love their job and are always willing to help. It is nice that they are not treating the project as a usual implementation, trying to understand how the company works, and are genuinely happy for our success
Konstantin Eliseev
The Odyssey WMS solution has helped us to increase productivity and improve the quality of our employees' work. Of course, it took some time for the staff to adopt the system, but in general, adaptation to the new working conditions was very successful. The system is intuitive and extremely easy to use. For example, the order pickers spend minimal effort to receive jobs because the data are automatically transmitted to the RTD. The working time is used as efficiently as possible, with everyone going about their business.  We do not experience any difficulties working in the system, the tasks are performed on time and of very high quality, and the human factor is minimized
adds Konstantin Eliseev

Any task, time of its performance, personnel movements in the warehouse - everything is strictly recorded in the system. It is possible to analyze in real time which of the 440 employees in the warehouse over- and under-fulfilled the current norms. Using the system, the company precisely calculates the need for resources in each warehouse section and redistributes personnel if necessary. The WMS can track which employees worked how much during the shift and prepare reports accordingly.

We as a dynamic company can look into the future with complete peace of mind. Odyssey WMS fully meets our needs, it gives us a solid foundation for development, flexibility to change and improve processes. The system is easily scalable. We are confident that even in the case of moving to a new warehouse there will be no failures at another site and the quality of operations will remain the same high
Konstantin Eliseev, ConceptGroup Distribution Center Director

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