Download the case study Over the past 34 years, New Orleans-based Meyers Warehouse has provided high-quality food grade warehousing and trucking services to corporations throughout the United States. A family-owned and operated business, Meyers Warehouse has a total storage capacity exceeding 195,000 square feet over four buildings, a three acre container yard and a growing fleet for transportation services. The Business Challenge: After recovering from devastating and complete losses from hurricane Katrina, Meyers Warehouse rebuilt its business from the ground up. A mandate from its primary customer, Domino Sugar, required them to automate their current, manual warehousing, inventory and shipping functions to accommodate an increase in forthcoming business. Not only was automation being required by their customer, it was also necessary to improve business operations since Meyers was experiencing unacceptable levels of mis-shipments, lost or misplaced inventory, and non-compliance with FIFO (First In First Out) due to manual inventory procedures and warehouse operations. Additionally, because Meyers Warehouse bought an existing complex of buildings rather than build from scratch after the flood, they faced several challenges with the existing structures, including large amounts of bad data cabling that required replacement. Additional Factors: Meyers Warehouse customer, Domino Sugar, was a primary driver of the warehouse automation initiative. It had a strong relationship with another warehouse management system (WMS) integrator through one of its other regional 3PL companies in another state. This regional 3PL was heavily endorsing its vendor to be the warehouse management software provider as well. The WMS package being endorsed, however, came with bundled financial modules not needed by Meyers Warehouse, along with a higher price tag. Additionally, the software provider was unable to install and support the hardware devices needed for the solution. Meyers wanted a turnkey WMS solution strictly to monitor inventory and improve or eliminate incidents […]