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INVENTORY MANAGEMENT MPI APP FOR THE 2ND LARGEST GARDEN TOOLS SUPPLIER IN AUSTRALIA
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SAFETY INSPECTION COMPANY FOR A TOP 3 RAILROAD MANUFACTURER IN THE UNITED STATES
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BUILDING SECURITY COMPANY IN BOSTON
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FRUIT AND COOKIE DELIVERY VENDOR IN MIAMI FLORIDA
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INVENTORY MANAGEMENT MPI APP FOR THE 2ND LARGEST GARDEN TOOLS SUPPLIER IN AUSTRALIA
This company was family owned and had to compete directly with large, well-capitalized competitors. One area they struggled with is prices. Because they were much smaller than the #1 garden tools supplier in the country and had less efficient inventory practices, they were not able to realize the same economies of scale and ended up charging more for higher margins. Electric Web developed an inventory app that saved them $737,000 per year.
PREVIOUS PROCESS NEW PROCESS WITH OUR MPI APP PREVIOUS PROCESSWorkers would go into the warehouse with a clip-board and make notations. Then they would hand it off to a data entry worker who inputted notations into the computer.
NEW PROCESS WITH OUR MPI APPAll boxes are printed with a QR code. Workers just walk down the warehouse aisles with their smartphone and scan everything, data is automatically added into the system. A job that used to take 3 hours per warehouse now takes 25 minutes.
Man Hours Saved: 238 per warehouse per year. 11,916 company-wide per year.
Data entry specialist no longer needed, salary savings of $45,000 per year.
Total savings: $296,000 per year.
PREVIOUS PROCESSWorker would manually create back-order if there was insufficient inventory. Process is slow and created errors.
NEW PROCESS WITH OUR MPI APPBack order is automatically created when boxes are scanned if there is insufficient inventory. Process is fast with no errors.
Man Hours Saved: 2440 per year
Error costs saved: $15,050 per year
Total savings: $21,210 per year
PREVIOUS PROCESSDiscrepancies between physical inventory count and posted inventory count rely on physical “pen and paper” paper-work, causing errors and employee theft, as workers get tired and forget to write in an extra “0” or they decide to steal something and cover up their theft.
NEW PROCESS WITH OUR MPI APPIt is impossible for the computer to make an error in the count or allow a thief to cover up the numbers so long as the phone is properly held up while scanning.
Error Costs Saved: $105,000 per year
Employee Theft Saved:$315,000 per year
Total savings: $420,000 per year
Total savings: $737,210 per year
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SAFETY INSPECTION COMPANY FOR A TOP 3 RAILROAD MANUFACTURER IN THE UNITED STATES
This company faced an issue: Because most of their employees were always on the road, inspecting one of thousands of various railroad sites (some in the most remote parts of the country,) they consistently had issues with management and accountability. The wrong inspectors would end up at the wrong sites, inspectors would come late, they would go out drinking, and in general it was hard to keep someone accountable when they were traveling thousands of miles away from the home office.
Our solution was to wire all inspectors together in a mobile field app, allowing for a tremendous increase in cost savings for the company and true accountability, for the first time in the company’s history.
PREVIOUS PROCESS NEW PROCESS WITH OUR MPI APP PREVIOUS PROCESSWhen a field inspector was sick, they would have to wait until the morning to call in to the home office. Since most inspections start at 9 AM, and the home office did not open until 9 AM, inspections always had to be delayed or rescheduled. The operator would have to manually check who was closest to replace the sick inspector and if they were available or not.
NEW PROCESS WITH OUR MPI APPField inspector can issue a “sick day notification” in the system at night, as soon as they start to feel sick. The system automatically detects the field inspector physically closest to them, and if they are available the next day, and creates an alert, requesting assistance. Upon acceptance, the app immediately begins clocking overtime hours and prompts the relief inspector to get to the job! The result: 45% less inspections delayed or rescheduled per year.
PREVIOUS PROCESSInspectors manually checked off needed items during inspection on paper. Then they input the inspection results into their laptops at the end of the day, or the next day.
NEW PROCESS WITH OUR MPI APPInspectors now scan all inspection areas with their phone, and it automatically inputs whether or not certain areas pass or fail. Results are posted automatically into the system.
Man Hours Saved: $3040 per year
Total savings: $76,000 per year
PREVIOUS PROCESSEmployees would arrive to inspections late and lie about their arrival time. Since there is no incentive for the railyard manager to “rat out” a late inspector (they are from different companies,) the home office would never know if an inspector arrived late or left early. Consequently, inspectors would constantly steal time, by saying they arrived on time when they were late, or by saying an inspection took longer than it did.
NEW PROCESS WITH OUR MPI APPThe app only allows inspectors to clock in to work when they are physically at the inspection site by using GPS map services.
Time Theft Prevented: $2,187,500 per year
PREVIOUS PROCESSProblem areas had to be calculated manually, and were submitted in quarterly reviews to the board of the railroad company.
NEW PROCESS WITH OUR MPI APPProblem areas were generated instantly on a map that was accessible by the railroad company at all times, the company could quickly take steps to see what regions were struggling and fix the issue.
Total savings: $2.3 million per year
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BUILDING SECURITY COMPANY IN BOSTON
A building security company in Boston deployed in over 120 buildings had foot and vehicle patrols. While the company had accountability technology (those little wands that the guard had to press when they did rounds) they were expensive to install in new buildings and they did not apply to vehicle patrols, who worked with 0 accountability.
PREVIOUS PROCESS NEW PROCESS WITH OUR MPI APP PREVIOUS PROCESSEach time a new building was assigned, company had to invest in $25,000 worth of infrastructure, to set up digital checkpoints for the guard to walk.
NEW PROCESS WITH OUR MPI APPEach time a new building is assigned, company uses QR code stickers to perform checkpoints.
Savings: $550,000 per year
PREVIOUS PROCESSVehicle patrols had no accountability whatsoever, unlike foot patrols who had to check in at checkpoints. Long coffee breaks, drive in fast food breaks, and general laziness was the norm.
NEW PROCESS WITH OUR MPI APPApp created GPS map tracking for accountability. Manager’s map showed where all the vehicles were supposed to be given the routes assigned, and showed whether someone was ahead of schedule or behind schedule.
PREVIOUS PROCESSVehicles would make route mistakes often.
NEW PROCESS WITH OUR MPI APPRoute mistakes automatically alerted and corrected. No more errors.
PREVIOUS PROCESSAnytime there was a security breach, the system would not differentiate between criminal trespasses and innocent ones, such as vagrants, drunks, or teenagers. Consequently the system used to send out an alert for all local units to respond, wasting manhours on harmless intrusions.
NEW PROCESS WITH OUR MPI APPThe security guard chooses the type of intrusion, harmless or malicious, and the system responds in kind.
Man Hours Saved: $6840 per year
Total Savings: $95,760 per year
PREVIOUS PROCESSLow and high risk buildings were identified on a yearly basis, with staff shifts happening every year. However, spates of trespassing tend to happen in weekly or monthly bursts, so by the time the company reassigned its staff it might be too late. The reassignment process was costly and manual.
NEW PROCESS WITH OUR MPI APPLow and high risk buildings are calculated in real time, with staff being automatically reassigned to high danger areas.
Man Hours Saved: $1,200 per year
Total Savings: $16,800 per year
Total savings: $662,560 per year
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FRUIT AND COOKIE DELIVERY VENDOR IN MIAMI FLORIDA
PREVIOUS PROCESS NEW PROCESS WITH OUR MPI APP PREVIOUS PROCESSPackages were not linked to specific drivers in the system. In the morning, the warehouse would just put packages onto the trucks willy nilly. This led to incompetent drivers losing packages and theft since there was no accountability.
NEW PROCESS WITH OUR MPI APPEach package is scanned linking it to a driver.
Loss and theft reduced by: $50,000 per year
PREVIOUS PROCESSDrivers had a full day to make their deliveries. Some drivers would slack off and say they are stuck in traffic, etc. Others would finish early and take the rest of the day off, leading to time theft.
NEW PROCESS WITH OUR MPI APPGPS tracking tracks all drivers at all times. If someone is performing slower than expected, manager gets a push notification. Delivery times are counted and driver’s performance is posted to their performance review document. Bad drivers can be replaced. Good ones rewarded.
Time theft stopped: 260 hours a year
Total savings: $4680 per year
PREVIOUS PROCESSDrivers would accidentally deliver to the wrong location or miss stops on their route, causing them to have to turn around and waste time.
NEW PROCESS WITH OUR MPI APPApp automatically notifies drivers if they miss a stop or are going the wrong way.
Wasted time prevented: 290 hours a year
Total savings: $5220 a year.
Total savings: $59,900 per year