The owner-managed family company Herotec from Ahlen, Germany, stands for high-quality and innovative system components for panel heating and cooling. As a partner for specialized wholesalers, Herotec operates at home and abroad. Due to the growth, the existing storage and production capacities became too small. MALORG Consulting carried out the reorganization of the warehouse and production with the customer on the basis of a potential analysis.
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Potential analysis as a basis for the reorganization of the warehouse and production for herotec
31. May 2022, Reading time: 1 min 56 second
Weakened: production and service level
- Goal: Reorganization of the warehouse and production based on a planning analysis to enable further growth at minimal costs in the future
Early involvement of employees
- Definition of the project goals by employees of MALORG Consulting and the company Herotec
- close coordination with warehouse staff for high acceptance of new technologies
Analyses reveal weak points
- Data analysis with subsequent actual and potential analysis
- Recording of all required functions and processes by means of BPM for holistic optimization
Catalog of measures to optimize processes
- Formulation of a catalog of measures on the basis of the evaluation of the current situation
- Create space by reducing non-moving item quantities
- Optimization of the material flow and process
- Warehouse structuring
- Improvement of the organization
- Transparency in production and dispatch control.
- Introduction of KANBAN processes to simplify order control and material provisioning