The document discusses how logistics and distribution companies can increase productivity and safety compliance by automating their supply chains. It describes how the STANLEY CribMaster system provides both inventory management software and automated dispensers that give workers 24/7 controlled access to necessary tools and materials. This reduces downtime and improves productivity while also ensuring safety compliance. The system automatically reorders items and provides managers with real-time inventory data and reports to optimize purchasing and inventory costs. By tracking item usage and workers, STANLEY CribMaster helps logistics companies improve supply chain visibility, reduce costs by 25-45%, and pass safety audits.

1. Logistics & Distribution Trends: Increasing
Productivity & Safety Compliance by
Automating your Supply Chain

2. While warehouse operators work hard every day to make sure
products flow efficiently in and out of their facilities, some warehouse
operations are more productive than others.
Changes in manufacturing, along with
globalization, are creating new challenges to
those in the logistics and material handling
industry. Managers are presented with many
ways to operate efficiently, but they never
stop to search for ideas on how to reduce
costs.
Cutting down on handling costs,
implementing inventory management
software and barcodes for leaner practices is
a good start but all too often the warehousing
costs keep rising.
Traceability of tools and plant upkeep
supplies is more than just barcodes and
a time stamp. It’s flawless coordination
between different systems and processes
from the IT support, procurement, tool
calibration, work order management, to data
integration into ERP and MRP systems.
Logistics and Distribution companies that are
lacking such coordination will find themselves
at a significant economic disadvantage.
The devil is in the detail. One detail that
is often considered nothing but a minor
inconvenience, is always overlooked – an
uninterrupted access to inventory for your
personnel, without which they cannot do the
material handling job properly and safely.
It is a well-known storage facility issue that
employees lose huge amounts of time
getting materials they need. If a critical
protective item or a tool is not available right
where they are, right when they need it,
not only will this impact negatively on their
productivity but also on their safety.
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Top Trends in Logistics Affecting Supply Chain Management
Don’t let a 10-cent part cause
a 10- hour delay: constantly
running out of critical tools
and consumables leads to
plummeting productivity!

3. Too many companies in the logistics industry, reportedly
underestimate the importance of 24/7 availability of consumables
such as protective gloves, goggles, screws, inserts, or tools that keep
their facility running smoothly.
It can, however, be very hard to accurately
forecast the use of such consumables items.
Orders based on rough approximation can
result in up to 50% inactive stock, including
low-turning products and obsolete items.
Carrying excess inventory can add as much
as 25% to its initial cost and needlessly
occupy the valuable floor space. Logistics
experts cannot stress enough the importance
of reclaiming the non-productive warehouse
storage space for your logistics business
optimization.
It is also equally important for logistics
companies space with staff at different
locations, to provide for swift supply chain
velocity by monitoring multiple supply chains
simultaneously to offer customized services
to customers in terms of packaging and
pricing need. Collaborating with an efficient
audit software to improve safety compliance
is a must to prevent the logistic companies
from getting on the wrong side of the law.
The management of outsourced contractor
services necessary for the logistics
companies to control labour costs and
stay competitive can also be an issue.
Unfortunately, if contractors are unaware
of – or neglect to follow – compliance
requirements, their actions can lead to
unsafe conditions and substantial fines. To
avoid these issues, management needs
an effective way to monitor contractor
performance.
In a nutshell, logistics companies need
access to real-time, enterprise-wide
inventory data to drive proactive, responsive
sales operations, make good purchasing
decisions, and minimize inventory costs
by identifying redundant and slow-moving
items. These companies need to make
their inventory available at all times for
their workers in a controlled way to save
costs,comply with safety regulations,
eliminate waste, hoarding and theft.
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In order to be safety
compliant, you must track
all items used by your
personnel.

4. It is very common in this day and age to have a software for
managing inventory and tools, but there is a missing link since the
software cannot hand out materials to the workers. It is still done
either manually, which leads to significant downtime in production
and idle time, or through an unattended and uncontrolled storage
unit, which can lead to rocketing costs.
This is where STANLEY CribMaster
revolutionizes inventory management with
its solution by offering both software and
hardware that fully automate the process of
controlled inventory dispensing and stock re-
orders and replenishment, Most importantly,
by giving logistics companies a full, real-time
and enterprise-wide business intelligence
to improve the supply chain, CribMaster
Software allows companies to ace safety
audits and to decrease procurement team
time and cost thanks to fewer administrative
tasks.
Automated dispensers such as ProStock,
ProLock or Toolbox are simple but effective
carousel-, locker- and helix-type vending
machines. Not only dologistics companies
have full visibility and control into
consumables
and tool management in real-time, while
reducing inventory spending by 25–45% in
the first year, but most importantly, these
systems provide workers with 24/7 controlled
access to materials right where they need
them.
Reducing walk time leads to greater
productivity! Any time workers access
the machine, they are required to identify
themselves in the system, which then
records and keeps accurate counts of
item flow. When item stock reaches their
pre-determined minimums, the system
automatically places an order with the
preferred supplier.
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It’s estimated that one minute of
production downtime due to a lost
or misplaced tool or unavailability
of a consumable item can cost
tens of thousands of euros!

5. Thanks to customizable settings you can limit the access by worker,
by product type, by quantity and run your plant in a safer, smarter and
more efficient way.
Thanks to the CribMaster system, managers
automatically receive scheduled overstock,
understock and dead stock reports,
upcoming tool calibration alerts, and
can track their consumable spending by
employee, job or time period for accounting
and budgetary analysis to have a reliable
intelligence that enables more informed
purchasing decisions.
In addition, CribMaster offers RFID
technology for inventory management,
which is a proven way to strengthen tool
control procedures at the boundaries of
a warehouse’s controlled access areas.
By providing visibility into the location and
possession of tools and scanners, this
technology stops workers from carrying
expensive equipment between protected
zones, averting unsafe actions and fines for
non-compliance. By adding each worker’s
details to the same software that tracks
your inventory and assets enterprise-wide,
warehouses can automatically tie contractors
to all the tools and equipment they check out.
With CribMaster logistics companies can
make associations between supplier,
product, and necessary item list for the
workflow, configured to auto-generate
replenishment POs, view enterprise-wide
total spend - with granular drill-down
capabilities and price variations across
different suppliers and sites. In addition,
software settings control access to ensure
that employees are issued the proper
equipment for the job, in the right size. If an
event occurs, database records can prove
whether a worker had the appropriate gear,
supplies or tools.
Whether you are innovator or disruptor, you
will always juggle between an ever-increasing
amount of processes, procedures and tasks
to help your business stay afloat. But to help
your business thrive, you should concentrate
on doing what you do best – keep those
goods moving, leaving the all the rest -
including new advances in logistics business
processes - to sustainable and smart
technology from STANLEY CribMaster.
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The STANLEY CribMaster system can
reduce your inventory spending by 25-45%
in the first year, while providing your workers
with 24/7 controlled access to materials
right where they need them

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European Headquarters
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1831 Diegem (Brussels), Belgium
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