Wunderwear selects Datalogic Memor for inventory

Datalogic Mobile has announced that its Datalogic Memor is being used by Wunderwear to keep track of inventory within its stores.

Using the Datalogic Memor, Wunderwear always knows the exact number of varieties, sizes and colours of its lingerie, allowing the company to offer its customers the products they want in the correct quantities.

Back in 2000, the owners Wunderwear realised that they should use a tool to take inventory in the stores.

It should save time and ensure a more exact registration of inventory in their systems.

At that time, the store invested in a solution with the Formula Wizard (Delfi Cap 72) mobile computer and Delfi Basic software.

Every product was scanned to ensure that the correct varieties, sizes and colours were all got registered.

It took no longer than a simple inventory when using this mobile computer.

Wunderwear was very satisfied with the Cap 72 (Formula Wizard) solution.

However, the one disadvantage was that the terminals' memories had to be emptied during inventory because the number of scans exceeded the memory limits in the mobile computer.

At the beginning of 2008, eight years after the introduction of the first system, Wunderwear chose to upgrade to a newer technology.

Wunderwear chose the Datalogic Memor mobile computer together with the newest software for handheld terminals from Delfi Technologies ; Delfi COM Basic and Delfi COM Server, its communication software.

Annual inventory has been improved centrally.

A timetable is worked out for every store and the handheld terminals are made ready.

Then, it is time for the staff at every store to ensure that all goods are unpacked and price marked.

Wunderwear takes inventory one store at a time.

On the actual inventory day, staff start work at 08:00 with a 10-minute introduction to the process.

By 10:00, everything has been counted and the store is ready to open.

During the day, data is uploaded and checklists are prepared for the following day at 20:00, when the auditor turns up to go through a spot-check control.

Now, it takes one store approximately four hours to complete the inventory process, including preparation time.

Compared with the previous solution, this represents a time savings of at least 25 per cent.

With 10 stores and seven people working at each, this provides a total of 70 hours saved.

The company has decided to extend its use of these devices to daily goods relocation between stores and inventories on seasonal goods, such as swimming items.

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