With an eye on expanding its horizons into new opportunities and offering logistics
operator services, the transport cooperative Casintra installed the cloud-based Easy
WMS warehouse management software by
Mecalux. The WMS system organizes the
operations of all its warehouses (
multi-warehouse structure) in Asturias (Siero and Gijon)
and Barcelona. Each of these facilities is multi-client and houses the goods from different
companies.
The cloud-based Easy WMS by Mecalux is
ideal for Casintra as it has allowed the com-
pany to get started in logistics management.
There was a minimal investment both finan-
cially and in terms of hardware infrastructure
(even when lacking any sort of communica-
tion system with its customers and suppliers).
This way Casintra can ensure the viability of
its business, adapt to the changes and re-
quirements of its customers, and strengthen
its expansion geographically.
The cooperative did not have to extend its
servers or acquire other hardware infrastructure. Instead, it was able to reuse its PCs to
connect to the application Mecalux provides
via the internet. Casintra has only installed
the equipment needed to operate the warehouses, including RF terminals, and list and
label printers.
The Mecalux WMS scales to use, so Casintra
can increase or decrease the resources and
capacity depending on the needs and demand levels of its business.
The cloud-based Easy WMS by Mecalux
makes it possible for Casintra to work online
Casintra’s logistics network: multi-warehouse, multi-client with Easy WMS
with its customers at a very low cost. Taking
full advantage of cloud-based technologies,
Mecalux connected the company to one of
its customer’s SAP R/3 business management systems. It was done through a private,
completely secure VPN site-to-site network.
Thus, despite lacking an ERP, it can communicate with the SAP system of its customer.
Even the documentation of the orders issued
to that customer is automatically generated
and personalized. In short, for all intents and
purposes, Casintra operates as another one
of its customer’s warehouses.
Casintra became a cooperative society in
1971 on the initiative of a group of independent carriers in Asturias in order to compete
side-by-side in a sector dominated by large
domestic and foreign companies.
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The system is ready to grow
depending on the foreseen
expansion of Casintra
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