Days
2
Auditors
47
Virtual warehouses
5
Customer
Atomic Fashion Marketing & Distribution
Sector
Industrial
Services
Atomic is an online fashion distributor with 30 years’ experience in fashion distribution, licensing, marketing, design and manufacturing. The distributor is located mainly in Australia and New Zealand with additional partners across the world. The talented team is made up of operations, logistics, designers, sales and marketing experts who each contribute to the brands and company’s success.
THE CHALLENGE
Atomic needed an inventory services company with experience in a logistics center environment, to provide an accurate inventory position. The distributor needed to ensure customers ordering online were able to be provided the product purchased, if it is shown to be available online.
Atomic required RGIS to provide the following:
- Complete a wall-to-wall count of the logistics center
- Execute the count within a tight time frame of two days
- Improve the accuracy and efficiency compared to the previous paper-based process
- Provide an electronic file which can be imported into the Warehouse Management System (WMS)
- Accuracy of the inventory position was vital
Sectors
Why RGIS?
Customers choose RGIS for online retailer logistics center counts because our expert teams deliver fast, accurate inventories across high-volume, fast-moving SKUs, improving stock integrity, order accuracy, and overall fulfilment performance.
Our Solutions
Atomic partnered with RGIS to complete the logistics center accurate inventory count project, and RGIS provided the following:
Scheduled a team of 47 experienced RGIS auditors
Two teams to cover two days
The logistics center was divided up into five separate virtual warehouses
Each virtual warehouse required its own inventory count and upload of data
Variance checking completed by in-house warehouse team
Location checks were completed to ensure all areas for each virtual warehouse had been accounted for, before providing the upload data to the customer
Results
Atomic found by outsourcing the logistics center accurate inventory count project to RGIS, the following results were achieved:
Accurately counted over 95,000 units over two days
All data was available to be uploaded immediately to the WMS
Re-opened completed virtual warehouse locations straight away, rather than waiting for the whole inventory to be finished, which allowed a continued flow of order completions
Conclusion
Re-opened completed virtual warehouse locations straight away, rather than waiting for the whole inventory to be finished, which allowed a continued flow of order completions.
