Sunsweet Growers Deploys Enterprise Mobility Solution
Sunsweet Growers Inc. partners with the Enterprise Mobility business of Motorola Inc. for an end-to-end enterprise mobility solution at its 23-acre, Yuba City, Calif., headquarters. Sunsweet Growers also worked with RedLine Solutions' integration team to deploy Motorola's rugged MC9090 mobile computers, VC5090 vehicle-mounted mobile computers, LS3408ER scanners, WS5100 wireless switches and AP300 access ports to help increase inventory efficiency and labor savings, reduce truck-load time and improve visibility into real-time production.
"The Motorola implementation quickly improved our visibility into real-time production," says Harold Upton, vice president of strategic business processes, Sunsweet Growers. "We've shifted our production reporting from the end of the shift to track product as it comes off the line. Our managers now have greater visibility into how well individual lines are producing on a daily basis, and we have increased our shipping efficiency."
Sunsweet was tracking finished goods in quantity, but not by storage location in its warehouse, which created inventory discrepancies and inefficiencies in finding and pulling products for shipment. It had already deployed SAP ERP inventory management solutions to replace legacy systems and plans to expand the solution to include the SAP warehouse management module. Sunsweet selected Motorola's enterprise mobility solution for its warehouse based on the proven reliability, flexibility and durability of its products and Motorola's relationship with SAP.
"The Motorola implementation quickly improved our visibility into real-time production," says Harold Upton, vice president of strategic business processes, Sunsweet Growers. "We've shifted our production reporting from the end of the shift to track product as it comes off the line. Our managers now have greater visibility into how well individual lines are producing on a daily basis, and we have increased our shipping efficiency."
Sunsweet was tracking finished goods in quantity, but not by storage location in its warehouse, which created inventory discrepancies and inefficiencies in finding and pulling products for shipment. It had already deployed SAP ERP inventory management solutions to replace legacy systems and plans to expand the solution to include the SAP warehouse management module. Sunsweet selected Motorola's enterprise mobility solution for its warehouse based on the proven reliability, flexibility and durability of its products and Motorola's relationship with SAP.