GOLD EAGLE CO.

Optimizing Execution in the Warehouse

For more than 80 years, Gold Eagle Co.® has been manufacturing and distributing automotive chemicals designed to protect and improve the performance of a range of vehicles and equipment.

As a leader in the product development, manufacturing, marketing, and distribution of branded engine performance and maintenance chemicals, Gold Eagle wanted to boost their own performance. In order to do so, they needed real-time visibility and execution across the supply chain to keep up with a growing market.

Challenge

Gold Eagle manufactures and distributes automotive chemicals designed to protect and improve the performance of a range of vehicles and equipment. However, to boost their own performance, it needed real-time visibility and execution across the supply chain to keep up with a growing market.

Gold Eagle manufactures a number of leading brands distributed out of multiple facilities in the Chicago area. However, manual processes produced inefficiencies that rippled across the supply chain. Delayed entry caused issues with loss of inventory visibility. The lack of visibility, in turn, delayed transaction processing, which led to inaccurate inventory statements. For inventory accuracy across the supply chain, Gold Eagle sought a solution to increase end-to-end visibility beginning in their Chicago warehouses.

Solution

Cloud Inventory® offers Gold Eagle a single solution to increase supply chain visibility and execution at multiple locations. The company deployed the Cloud Inventory platform and digital supply chain solutions to equip its team to input inventory, work order, and pick/pack transactions from the point of activity—in this case, the shop floor. Gold Eagle also uses Cloud Inventory for transactions in the production area for work order completions and return to stock processing.

With Cloud Inventory’s certified, validated integration into Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, the company’s system of record is updated with data from these transactions in real-time.

“The Cloud Inventory mobile platform ensures a true and accurate inventory statement at all times,” said Mashaune Hardy, senior business analyst, Gold Eagle, “thus facilitating a better sales order to ship process.”

Gold Eagle implemented the Cloud Inventory solution with Cloud Inventory providing training, hardware support, application building, and trouble-shooting along the way. And the flexibility of the Cloud Inventory platform supported a seamless upgrade to the system of record and transition to new ruggedized handheld devices.

Results

With mobile execution in the warehouse, Cloud Inventory’s platform allows Gold Eagle personnel to create real-time inventory and work order transactions while physically attending to inventory. The solution gives warehouse workers the information they need when they need it.

Hardy added, “Cloud Inventory enables us to present to our shop floor users only the information that they need to see.”

The right hardware is essential to moving a supply chain from analog to digital operations, and for Gold Eagle, one of the biggest improvements gained was in a change in ruggedized hardware. With the Cloud Inventory platform’s broad hardware support, the company was able to speed the pick and pack process considerably with a better-performing handheld device model.

“With real-time transaction entry, our personnel is able to do more,” said Hardy. “With Cloud Inventory, they don’t have to record transactions manually then do data entry.” And the transaction response time on the new mobile devices allows Gold Eagle personnel to pick and pack more while maintaining an efficient shipping schedule.

The Cloud Inventory digital supply chain solution improved automation in the receiving, inventory, and picking areas in warehouses and eliminated manual processes in the plant. As a result of the implementation, Gold Eagle gained real-time data for better management decisions and planning and faster product movement.

Industry

Consumer Package Goods

ERP: JD Edwards EnterpriseOne

Highlights

• Improved inventory accuracy

• End-to-end supply chain visibility

• Real-time transactions from the point of work

• Optimized sales order to ship process