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Groupe Jacquet case study PDF Download ImageID’s Visidot ™ Chosen for Proven Traceability and 100% Shipping AccuracyGroupe Jacquet, of the Limagrain group, is a leading bakery chain with distribution centers and bakeries throughout In July of 2005, Groupe Jacquet launched SADL (System for Acquisition of Logistic Data), an initiative to achieve a level of traceability that would fully comply with the European General Food Law, ensure complete shipping accuracy and keep inventory data in all of the group’s warehouses constantly up-to-date. “Groupe Jacquet required a fast, automated data capture system,” says Pedro Ferrandiz, Groupe Jacquet Logistics Manager, “one that would be able to read all of the items on each pallet with 100% accuracy, even when boxes had shifted”. This was no simple challenge - while some pallets are homogeneous, with a fixed number of products of the same type, most tend to be heterogeneous, comprising a fairly large variety of different products. Mr. Ferrandiz and his team set out to achieve an ambitious goal – to find a solution backed by a comprehensive software system that could manage data collection from handheld scanners and multiple-asset readers, associate captured data with predefined business logic, assign pallets to deliveries, compare scanned items with specific customer orders, generate SSCC pallet labels and integrate all of this data with ERP systems. Alternative solutions, such as RFID, were considered, but per-tag costs proved prohibitive. Visidot Provides Groupe Jacquet with Proven Traceability Deployment commenced with the tagging of bakeries’ bread boxes with industry-standard Data Matrix (2D) labels and installation of Visidot reader gates and operator stands throughout Groupe Jacquet’s distribution centers. These were combined with handheld scanners and adapted to enable close, XML-based integration with the group’s Lawson/Intentia MOVEX ERP systems. Visidot reader gates deployed at Jacquet’s depots, which are capable of capturing very large quantities of tagged containers in a single scan, capture tens of thousands of heterogeneous outbound bread box-laden pallets a day. Locally deployed Visidot SCT (Supply Chain Traceability) servers running Visidot SCT Director software enable depot operators to perform ad-hoc shipping verification and apply corrective measures as required. Once orders and products to be shipped are properly matched and verified, bread pallets are shrink-wrapped and affixed with automatically printed SSCC labels. These are later scanned by handheld scanners just before pallets are loaded onto outgoing trucks. Local Visidot SCT servers communicate tag information captured from all incoming and outgoing bread box pallets to the bakery chain’s headquarter Visidot SCT servers. The Visidot SCT Central software application running on these servers then generates a comprehensive, birds’ eye view of Groupe Jacquet’s entire supply chain, and enables implementation of a wide range of applications, including image bank-based proof of shipping and proof of product condition archiving. Real-time, user privilege-dependent access to traceability records is provided through any Web-connected station on the group’s corporate network. Groupe Jacquet Application Benefits
Visidot Delivers “Visidot has lived up to all of our expectations,” says Pedro Ferrandiz. “Since installing the Visidot System throughout our production facilities, Groupe Jacquet has succeeded in maintaining a 100% accuracy rate in all customer deliveries”. Visidot not only helps the bakery to avoid shipping errors in the first place, but also offers the guidance required to perform corrective actions should something go wrong. Mr. Ferrandiz concludes, “at the end of the day, Visidot enables us to maintain complete traceability, while drastically reducing shipping errors and manual labor costs.” |
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