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EPG | LFS AND LYDIA® VOICE PROVIDE REFRESHMENT Warehouse Management by EPG
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At Spaten-Löwenbräu GmbH in Dachau, Germany, high season be-
gins in April and ends with the traditional Oktoberfest in Munich
– an absolute seasonal peak. The only way this beverage wholesa-
ler can manage this highly seasonal business and pre-
pare seasonal staff for physically demanding beverage
handling every year is if it has a well-placed logistics
organization running in the background. Faced with an
increasing volume of orders, Spaten-Löwenbräu deci-
ded to automate the processes within its logistics operation – and
to do that, it has turned to EPG | LFS Warehouse Management Sys-
tem by EPG. At the same time, picking was switched over to Pick
by Voice with Lydia® Voice. From the outset, the goals were clearly
defined: more transparency, better stock management and flexible
use of seasonal workers.
Spaten-Löwenbräu GmbH is part of the Anheuser-Busch InBev Group,
the world’s leading brewery group with an annual sales volume of 433
million hectoliters of beer. With an annual volume of around nine mil-
lion hectoliters, the company ranks second in the German beer market.
50 percent of Spaten-Löwenbräu’s customer groups are food-service
operations, and the other 50 percent are commercial customers, inclu-
ding filling stations, beverage shops and canteens. The supply lines to a
total of 1,800 customers have to be intact at all times. For this purpose,
the beverage wholesaler keeps a variety of items permanently in stock
and has the option of ordering and managing order items on request.
The accelerating pace made automating the logistics processes in the
15,000-m² warehouse in Dachau – and providing more stock transpa-
rency in the process – an obvious step. The choice was made for LFS
because, with its industry-specific software module, the system meets
all the specifications of the beverage trade. The fact that EPG with Ly-
dia® Voice also features the Pick by Voice solution, which has also
grown necessary, was an additional bonus.
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TWO PICKING AREAS –
FOR GREATER EFFICIENCY
The warehouse consists of two separate picking areas: one for keg pi-
cking and one for assembling cash-and-carry items such as cases and
six-packs. Both areas are shown separately in LFS, with orders con-
taining items from both product groups split accordingly. Orders are
picked in parallel, and then, prior to loading, the items in each order are
recombined in a consolidation area for joint delivery. This separation of
the heavy and cumbersome kegs from the rather easy-to-pick packa-
ging simplifies the entire process for employees. This way, the dou-
ble-mast lift trucks used in the keg area can also do their work without
posing a danger to the order pickers.
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DEPENDABLY CUSHIONING
SEASONAL PEAKS WITH
LYDIA ® VOICE
Spaten-Löwenbräu relies on additional warehouse staff during
the peak seasons. This flexibility also has to be reflected in the
software systems used – because long and costly orientation
is out of the question. Lydia® Voice is speaker-independent,
so employees with this PbV solution don’t have to go through
voice training and can be productive instantly. The beverage
wholesaler currently uses the voice system in German and
English. At the request of Spaten-Löwenbräu GmbH, Roman-
ian is currently being implemented as an additional language.
The other advantage of Lydia® Voice is obvious: Handling
kegs and cases can be physically very strenuous – and dea-
ling with lists or MDE devices makes the entire process even
more complicated and slower. With Lydia® Voice, employees
benefit from the high ergonomics of the solution. Thanks to the
hands-free-eyes-free concept, order pickers can concentrate
fully on their work, and this makes them much more producti-
ve. Employees at Spaten-Löwenbräu also have the choice of
working with the Voxter® mobile voice computer and headset,
or using the ergonomic Lydia® VoiceWear®, which is a vest
with a built-in peaker and microphone.
And Spaten-Löwenbräu intends to continue to cooperate with
EPG in the future: With the good experience, the high reliability
of the system and the already noticeable boost in productivity
in order picking, further projects are already in planning. The
virtual EPG | TIMESQUARE control station, for instance, provi-
des the company with exact information at a glance about the
trend in KPIs.
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COMPANY PROFILE
EPG – Smarter Connected Logistics
EPG is a leading international provider for a comprehensive Supply
Chain Execution System (SES) and employs more than 600 people at
17 locations around the world. The company provides its more than
1,500 customers with WMS, WCS, WFM, TMS and voice solutions to
optimize logistics processes – from manual to fully automated logis-
tics environments. EPG solutions cover the entire supply chain: From
warehouse and road to ground and cargo handling solutions at airports.
Logistics consulting, cloud services, managed services and logistics
training courses at the company’s own academy round out the com-
prehensive list of solutions from EPG.
KEY EPG FIGURES
2020 (Forecast) > 700
ESTABLISHED SES – THE ERP 2019 > 600
SYSTEM FOR
IN 1987 LOGISTICS 2018 > 500
STAFF GROWTH
OUR SOLUTIONS
MORE THAN ARE AVIABLE
30 YEARS OF IN 16 LANGUAGES
EXPERIENCE
17 LOCATIONS
AROUND THE WORLD
35%
PRODUCTIVITY INCREASE
WITH LYDIA® VOICE
150
EVERY DAY,
WE CARRY
OUT MORE
THAN M I LLI ON 200,000
LYDIA® VOICE
PICKS ACROSS THE WORLD MORE THAN USERS
WORLWIDE
USING LFS 1,500 CUSTOMERS
SUPPORT
5CONTACT
Ehrhardt + Partner Group
Alte Römerstraße 3 | 56154 Boppard-Buchholz
Phone. (+49) 67 42-87 27 0 | Fax (+49) 67 42-87 27 50
info@epg.com | www.epg.com
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