ERP, WMS,WIFI, &SCANNERS

SOUTHWINDFOODS A SUCCESS STORY BY

AUTOMATION FORBUSINESS GROWTH

"This custom-tailored system isnow the backboneof our company 'soperations . "

All in sub-zero temperatures.

Southwind Foods utilizes their businesssoftware system to it 's fullest potential

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D O NS U T H E R L A N D

outhwind Foods' commitmentto customer service has led toincredible growth over the years,allowing Southwind to expand across the country. With a nationalfootprint, there’s a good chancethat the seafood you buy at yourlocal grocery store came fromSouthwind Foods.

The Situation

As you can imagine, SouthwindFoods processes and distributes avery high volume of seafood everysingle day. This is especially true inLos Angeles, which remains theirmain hub of operations.Southwind lacked a facility largeenough to handle their volume,

A U .S . owned and operated company importing thefinest seafood from around the world uses ERP & WMSto keep service high as their company grows .

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Southwind Foods wasfounded in LosAngeles, CA in 1999,quickly expanding toopen locations in SaltLake City, UT andPhoenix, AZ.Southwind is a majorimporter, packagerand distributor of highquality seafood, meatand poultry, supplyingmajor grocery chainsand independentmarkets nationwide.

and had previously used asubstantial amount of outside coldstorage facilities, driving costs upsignificantly. With continued growthand long term profitability in mind,Southwind Foods constructed twomassive frozen storage facilities andconsolidated operations into a largerfacility. The benefits of this ambitiousstrategy were obvious, but it alsopresented a set of major challengesto overcome in order to make aproject like this feasible.

Key Challenges

From a logistical standpoint,Southwind needed to create anautomated stocking and fulfillmentsystem that included put-away logic,pallet management and pick

Not every WMS scannercan handle -10° F, butThe Attivo Group foundthe solution.

selection, and make these activities apain-free exercise. Their systemneeds to know exactly whereeverything is at all times to supportFIFO rotation, Country of Origin, andother critical product information,and do it all in real time. To supportall of this, they needed to add anadvanced Warehouse ManagementSystem (WMS) to their Macola ERPsystem, WiFi throughout the facility,and bar code scanners that couldoperate in sub-zero temperatures.

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THE SOLUTION RESULTS

“This custom-tailored system is now the backbone of ourcompany’s operations. It is extremely efficient and accurate andwe rely on it to support the high volume of product that we handleevery day. It keeps us totally compliant with all of the regulatory andcustomer requirements that we need to deal with, and has helped uskeep our costs as low as possible.”

Don Sutherland, CFO, Southwind Foods

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The facility move and deployment of thewarehouse management system wascompleted in 2016. Sales growth hascontinued and the company has a verysolid infrastructure to enable theirsuccess and increase their profitability.The pallet management system,enhanced to support the uniquerequirements for put away and pick logicin a challenging environment, hasproven to be a durable and game-changing technology for the company.

Serving customers nationwide, The AttivoGroup, Inc. provides world-class businessmanagement software and consulting servicesto small and mid-sized manufacturers,distributors and service companies. Throughassistance in implementing best practices, theCompany works with clients to optimize andredesign business processes that integratefront-and back-office systems to significantlyreduce the cost of operations.

For more information please call(877) 428-8486,email: info@attivoconsulting.com, or visitwww.attivoconsulting.com.

Southwind Foods turned to their ERPsupport team, The Attivo Group, Inc. to solvetheir challenges. Attivo worked closely withWiSys LLC, a preferred provider of WMSSystems that integrate with Macola ERP, andtogether created an enhanced put away,pallet management and pick system tailoredto their specific requirements. Attivobrought in Emkat, Inc. to handle theintricacies of the wireless infrastructure thatthe system would run on. Honeywellprovided the scanner equipment designedto function in -10° F temperatures.

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