Case Study-Chongqing Medicine Co., Ltd.

        

Chongqing Medicine Heping Drugstore is China’s largest drugstore chain. Heping Drugstore is owned by pharmaceutical wholesaler Chongqing Medicine Co., Ltd. In April 2007, Chongqing Medicine expanded and renovated its Peace Distribution Center by introducing a unit load automated storage & retrieval system (AS/RS), high-speed sorting transfer vehicles (STV), and warehouse management system software (WMS). The new equipment automated receiving, picking, replenishment, and shipping. The new DC uses less power and labor, while providing increased storage and improved order processing capabilities.

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Case Study-Modern AS/RS technology improves efficiency at two distribution centers

With 520 stores throughout Sweden, Dagab AB is one of the country’s four largest grocers. As part of an ongoing effort to efficiently serve customers, Dagab recently renovated two distribution centers. One serving customers in northern Sweden and the other serving customers in the south. In both facilities, cutting-edge material handling systems reduced cost and decreased delivery lead time. With the new systems in place, Dagab will be able to efficiently manage future growth.

Dagab AB opened the Stockholm distribution center near its head office in June 2008. It consists of dry, cold, and frozen areas. A unit load Automated Storage and Retrieval System (AS/RS) and Sorting Transfer Vehicles (STVs) were introduced to handle dry products.

The AS/RS consists of six storage retrieval machines and has a storage capacity of 12,000 pallets. It handles full europallets (900mm x 1,400mm) and half-pallets (900mm x 700mm). Half-pallets are stored double deep

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Not Impression Make your life an Inspiration

Sunil Vasyani, a musafir himself is on an innovative journey to make the lives of musafirs easy, by his startup venture, SirfTaxi. A Sales Professional by profession, he leads his life by the learning of life, especially from his father, who taught him ‘to give’ in life. One of the reasons for leaving his secure and comfortable successful career by venturing into entrepreneurship is to, give the right chance to himself, and work on his ability to create what he may be destined to. His story is different from anyone around us, inspiring, educational, excerpts from his interaction in our Rendezvous event at Impals.

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High Speed ASRS

Daifuku High Speed ASRS, the unique Material handling solution across all industries-

Daifuku ASRS is a high speed goods to man order, fully automated for speed and accuracy in material handling.

Storing and Retrieving material from racks using integrated SRM that move items to conveyors,

which are routed to go to the workstation or for final dispatch.

Improve overall productivity with DAIFUKU ASRS..

Save Time, Save Space, Save Costs…

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Case study-FANCL Corporation

FANCL Corporation (headquartered in Yokohama, Kanagawa) was established as a mail order company of additive-free cosmetics. Today, FANCL also sells health supplements, food, and drinks in retail shops and convenience stores around Japan. In August 2008, FANCL opened a new facility “Kanto Distribution Center” to centralize operations of eight locations. In addition to installing automated material handling systems at its new facility, FANCL also added 14,000 RFID tags to improve order fulfillment accuracy. The distribution center strives for over 90 percent same-day delivery and nearly “zero-error” shipping accuracy


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Is Marketing really required to sell quality products

There’s a saying by Nick Besbeas of LinkedIn fame that “Today it's important to be present, be relevant and add value." Your quality product sure adds value to the customers’ choice and money. But marketing that quality product ensures that its presence and relevance remain intact in customers’ minds.      

Nowadays, Marketing has become an integral part of any business. In fact, marketing of products in this modern era has lot of aspects associated with it. With the development of technological miracles, digital marketing has become very effective tool for marketing. For example, in 2014 Parliamentary election, the BJP adopted various strategies/approaches and during these strategic formations BJP experimented with digital marketing and social media marketing techniques quite effectively.

Despite the fact that Mr. Narendra Modi was an effective leader, marketing him effectively was very much fruitful. We can apply this analogy for marketing of good-quality products as well. Quality products will almost always satisfy the customers. But, marketing the quality products will increase the brand- awareness for them leading to capture larger customer base to use the products. And, as the products are of good quality, it will always help to increase the product sales. As we know quality is defined by the producer but it is ultimately judged by the customer so it is very necessary to market the quality product

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Case Study-LOTTE Confectionery Co., Ltd.

LOTTE Confectionery Co., Ltd. (headquartered in Seoul, South Korea) is a general confectionery manufacturer. In January 2010, LOTTE Confectionery started operating “Gwangmyeong Distribution Center” at Gwangmyeong City, which is located southwest of Seoul. As part of its integrated distribution plan, the company consolidated its distribution of dry and frozen goods from several small and medium-scale centers into one. In order to meet the demands of retailers with increasing product volume, the company constructed a highly automated distribution system. The changes drastically reduced workloads and labor costs. The whole LOTTE group cooperated in making the center a reality. It was constructed by LOTTE Engineering & Construction Co., Ltd., and is run by LOTTE Logistics Corp.

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