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Kornit Digital, the top digital textile printing solutions provider in Israel will be faster and more cost-effective than ever with LVS

Founded in 2002, Kornit Digital is a global company, headquartered in Israel with offices in the USA, Europe, and Asia Pacific. It supplies digital textile printing machines to more than 1,100 customers in more than 100 countries worldwide.

Kornit Digital develops, manufactures and markets industrial digital printing technologies for the garment, apparel, and textile industries. Kornit Digital is focused on enabling the mass customization of printed textile products. Leading the digital textile printing industry through its revolutionary NeoPigment process, including an integrated pretreatment solution, Kornit Digital caters directly to the needs of both designers and manufacturers, addressing the changing needs of the entire textile printing value chain.

Kornit Digital meets consumer expectations from the fashion industry as it is transforming to a new digital-based benchmark: 24-hours delivery of personalized orders. Having this as a guide, Kornit Digital decided to invest in a modern and adaptable WMS that would help them cover their growing needs and achieve the aforementioned 24-hours delivery.

Kornit Digital opted for Logistics Vision Suite by Mantis because of its ability to optimize all logistics processes and because it will assist them in the effort for great quality and the highest level of customer service.

Kornit Digital is building a new logistic center in Kiryat Gat to accommodate its fast-growing logistics needs. This new Distribution Center will incorporate VLM and Put Wall (Sort to Light).

Celestino a leading e-tailer in Greece, moves fashion forward with Logistics Vision Suite by Mantis

Celestino is a Greek company operating in the fashion industry since 1974. Offering top quality clothes and accessories at the best prices on the market and by having its own production facilities, Celestino has managed to gain customers’ support from its very beginning.

With headquarters in Athens, the company is planning on expanding its presence in Europe. In 2013 Celestino changed its model from pure brick and mortar to both stores and e-commerce. That was one of the company’s most important milestones as its whole approach changed from luxury to affordable fashion. By running its website, Celestino’s online presence has proven to be one of the most important steps as the brand expanded its reach by serving customers in Greece and abroad.

Nowadays, with more than 40 physical stores in Greece and other European countries, a customer – centric strategy and approach, an impressive e-commerce presence and more than 500 employees, Celestino has managed to perfectly combine the constantly updated and approachable image of high street fashion brands with the quality of luxury ones.

With such momentum, and such a strategy of expansion Celestino decided to invest in a Warehouse Management System (WMS) that would be adaptable and flexible but would moreover be mature and reputable. This is the perfect moment for the company to advance its systems and logistics as it is gaining more and more customers and the predictions for the near future are even more promising. Therefore, in order to provide the best possible experience and service to its customers, the company couldn’t but decide to take that step and welcome 2021 with a new, advanced approach.

Celestino selected Mantis because of its extended e-commerce experience and clientele and Logistics Vision Suite since it is probably the only WMS / logistics software suite that can be easily adapted to the needs of its customers, offering sophisticated warehousing & distribution operations and automations. Based on its growth strategy and future endeavors, Celestino opted for LVS because of its capability to integrate with Material Handling Equipment (MHE) and its tight integration with flexible and affordable automations using advanced proprietary technology. Finally, Celestino appreciated LVS for its rich functionality specific to the fashion industry such as color, size, seasonality, promotions, etc.

“At Celestino, we aim to offer customers high-quality clothing at very competitive market prices through our stores and e-commerce. We opted for Logistics Vision Suite by Mantis was a natural WMS choice for us since it is a top-notch WMS offering all that we need to be competitive in this new e-commerce era. This partnership seems to be the best choice when it comes to advancing our service to our constantly increasing clientele. We hope that this system will allow us to serve even faster our customers but also provide an optimized working environment for our team.”
Stavros Bardounias, Warehouse & Logistics Manager, Celestino

DTW Logistics, an expert in e-commerce fulfillment services in Poland offers comprehensive logistics solutions with LVS by Mantis

DTW Logistics, supported by experienced staff, is operating in the transport, forwarding and logistics market, with focus on booming e-commerce. The company conducts its business near Warsaw, where its head office and warehouse are located. The location of the company has been carefully selected in accordance with plans for further development, as it is located in the center of Poland, at national road E30, in a corridor connecting Western Europe with Russia.

DTW Logistics business activity is based on providing professional services of national and international forwarding in road transport of neutral, refrigerated and dangerous goods although also logistics services. The company carries professional warehouse facilities, support of experienced employees, and is prepared to provide logistics services of global quality for e-commerce businesses as order fulfillment, warehousing and value-added services center.

The strategic location of DTW Logistics along with its plans for further development impelled DTW Logistics to implement a Warehouse Management System that would be of cutting-edge technology with rich capabilities.

As the result of the tender, DTW Logistics opted for Logistics Vision Suite (LVS) by Mantis due to flexible approach, references and reputation as a reliable and trustworthy supplier, and last but not least adaptable and rich of functionalities product suite, which meets the demanding needs of leading 3PL operators and e-commerce companies.

All warehouse processes are supported by LVS a modern WMS system using Microsoft .Net technology. LVS by Mantis controls all standard logistics processes but moreover offers modern reporting with Qlik, remote Web Access, fast integration tools with Link Manager, a full suite of adaptability modules, multi depositor and multi-site architecture.

DTW Logistics identified several benefits from LVS implementation, among which are responsive and adaptable RF interface, automation of processes like goods allocation for orders and task assignment which reduce management costs and effort to run the warehouse floor operation, and flexible architecture which will allow future changes.

Freightworks a major 3PL/4PL in Dubai, increases its warehouse revenue with Logistics Vision Suite

Freightworks is a 45 years experienced logistics provider specialized in 3PL, 4PL and Freight Forwarding services.

Freightworks is owned by one of the world’s largest air services provider, offering ground handling, cargo, catering, and travel services worldwide, with presence of more than 40 years in MEA region.

Their lean organization ensures customer satisfaction by being close to the customers and their needs.

Freightworks is a proud member of WACO group, a network of independent freight management operating in more than 400 locations worldwide.

Today Freightworks is servicing more than 60 warehousing, 3PL + 4PL clients / depositors with the largest one being a world leading airline, where it caters all SKUS served on board with the only exception of food.

The company owns five warehouses across Dubai in strategic locations with nearly 40,000 pallet positions and yard spaces. Their extensive network of carefully selected business partners and committed work force have taken the company far ahead, combining all the benefits of in-depth local knowledge with true global expertise.

The operations in Dubai cater all modes of international and domestic transportation through dedicated facilities in Umm Ramool, Dubai Airport Cargo village, Dubai Airport Free Zone and Jebel Ali Free Zone.

The Umm Ramool facility includes a private bonded warehouse in Dubai which features state-of-the-art logistics facility with the latest software systems and modern storage and handling equipment.

Freightworks selected Rubicon Logistics Solutions, Mantis partner in the region to implement Logistics Vision Suite (LVS) WMS as part of its overall vision for continuous growth.

LVS implementation in Freightworks is up and running for more than a year now. Freightworks has seen significant improvement in efficiency, productivity, and overall warehouse operations. They have optimized the operations in several different areas because Mantis LVS WMS is easy to use without compromising the core WMS activities, thus providing excellent end-results.

With LVS, Freightworks has optimized the receiving process, which now allows the alignment of process flow and actual requirement, warehouse design, specific end customer requirements, VNA operations, space availability and many more.

A drastic improvement in the outbound process has been achieved, as LVS provides many options to the optimization of processes with efficient order creation and automatic allocation, even when multiple rules are defined as per the end customer requirements. Moreover, LVS offered options to combine picking lists and tasks while the touch screen packing station module eases the complicated outbound schedules.

Through Mantis LVS Billing Module, Freightworks captures all the elements of a 3PL/4PL tasks which have various permutations and combinations involved. All billing scenarios are captured precisely by LVS.

Ever since LVS was implemented and considering the company’s drive for success, Freightworks has seen a terrific increase in warehouse revenue.

“Our previous WMS, which was part of our main ERP system, had some WMS functionalities, but only after implementing Mantis LVS WMS we realized the difference of what a core WMS can bring. Mantis LVS rightfully stands with the top of the line in WMS systems. One of our biggest improvements is the amount of data entries that has been reduced through Mantis LVS. Also, there are multiple interfaces that can be created by our business team to have excel uploads and the interfacing capabilities of Mantis is second to none.”
Mr. Ahmed Niyas, Head of IT, Freightworks

Multilog, a leading 3PL in Ukraine, considers Logistics Vision Suite a business enabler for the growth its e-commerce business

Vova is one of the leading integrated suppliers of food for HoReCa segment in Ukraine, with more than 2,000 customers in Kiev and all over Ukraine.

Its customers are restaurants, bars, cafes, hotels as well as manufacturing companies and several supermarket chains.

Logistics and distribution (with fleet owned by the company) are being operated by Multilog, the Logistics Service Provider of Vova that was established recently for this purpose in order to provide efficient and productive services to the company.

The logistics operations run in a Distribution Center in Kiev of about 1,000 square meters and are comprising of ambient, refrigerated and frozen platform.

The new distribution center and the complexity of the logistics operations made the use of a WMS system necessary for the management and optimization of the operations.

The company, after an extensive survey of the available solutions in the Ukrainian market, has decided to implement Mantis’ Logistics Vision Suite Warehouse Vision that was supplied and implemented by Mantis’s partner I-Logistics.

The choice was based on the functionality and the expandability of the software, ensuring that it covers all present and future needs of Vova.

Implementation was performed by I-Logistics and Mantis resources in a short period of time to the full satisfaction of the customer. Today the system is up and running for the ambient, refrigerated and frozen platforms.

I-Logistics, is a Value-Added Reseller of Mantis in Ukraine, not only reselling the software, but also having the trained resources to implement projects in the local market. Mantis is also investing in the local market by setting up a daughter company Mantis Ukraine with the objective to support its local partner and the Ukraine market but also to create an implementation competence center aiming at providing resources for local as well as international projects.

The management of the company Multilog stated: “We are very pleased with our choice to implement Mantis Logistics Vision Suite. Not only we opted for the right platform to address all our requirements, present and future, but we selected a platform that is more than just a WMS. We are considering Logistics Vision Suite as a business enabler that allows us to grow and be competitive, especially in today’s business environment and with our expansion in the field of e-commerce”.

Capricorn a top heating systems manufacturer in Poland reaches record fulfilled orders with Logistics Vision Suite by Mantis

Capricorn is a Polish company, manufacturer of material for heating systems and bathroom installations. Capricorn was established almost 30 years ago. The production plant and the company’s headquarters are located in Świebodzice. Capricorn‘s technological potential derives primarily from its modern production departments, its own R&D center and design studio.

The company employs about 300 persons and the products are available to more than 500 major wholesalers and networks in Poland and in more than 45 countries in Europe and worldwide. All products manufactured by Capricorn are manufactured in accordance with European technical and quality standards ISO 9001:2009.

In spring 2019, the company decided to implement a Warehouse Management System (WMS) to improve logistics processes. Capricorn has specific requirements such as full traceability of products within the warehouse, automated process of printing item labels according to customer requirements, handling bill of lading along with optimizing shipping costs, assisting and automating decisions to run Sales Orders for execution, and organizing the collection path.

Mantis Logistics Vision Suite (LVS), was selected due to its great capabilities in traceability as well as its flexibility and adaptability to comply with all Capricorn’s requirements.

The inbound process was started in January 2020, the implementation phase of the outbound process was originally scheduled for the end of March and it was planned to take two months to go live, however delays due to the coronavirus outbreak and operational issues occurred. Because of the extraordinary business conditions, the blueprint analysis had to be modified at the last minute, which was a major challenge for both Mantis consultants and the Capricorn team. Despite objective adversity, Capricorn‘s sales reached a very high level during the summer months, and August turned out to be a record month in terms of sales.

The Euro-Asian Logistics Company in Ukraine increases warehouse operations efficiency with Logistics Vision Suite by Mantis

The Euro-Asian Logistics Company (EALC) was founded by Andrei Radchenko to use his extensive experience in this area.

Currently the company operates as a 3PL operator that is integrating its operations into 4PL logistics to provide a higher level of logistics services.

EALC offers a wide range of services that involve transportation and warehouse logistics, Customs services, cross-docking operations, fulfillment, planning and project management of all stages of a supply chain.

The warehouse of the company operates on Mantis WMS Logistic Vision Suite (LVS) that enables EALC to increase operational efficiency, improve warehouse processes, increase the volume of handled goods, decrease shelf stock, avoid human factor and have a high KPI level as well as very low amount of errors.

This also provides necessary information on a real-time basis. LVS is also integrated with TMS system(Transportation Management System) that enables EALC to coordinate operations between the warehouse and vehicles, which in turn increases efficiency by reducing vehicle idle time and helps to optimize the routing.

The next goal of EALC is to expand not only around Ukraine but internationally, increase freight turnover and, what is more important, to implement technological innovations that will boost efficiency.

To fulfill this goal EALC relies on Mantis to cater to their ever-changing needs and requirements both in terms of users and functionality. For Mantis the project is ongoing and ever evolving, and a living proof of how an expanding Logistics Service Provider can support its operations, treating the LVS platform as a business enabler for its organization and not as a simple operational tool.

Having started with Mantis LVS in Kyiv EALC is expanding around Ukraine. The concept of the chain involves the opportunity to make an online order that will allow the company to be integrated with e-commerce. In both cases having advanced warehouse technology will allow EALC to handle delivery of orders to a consumer in a store or home is essential.

UPS in Israel, opts for Mantis Logistics Vision Suite once again for its spare parts company Champion Motors

The Allied Group is an Israeli holding company operating in the real estate, electronics, infrastructure, and automotive industries. The Allied Group is one of the owners of OPSI-UPS IL, one of the largest logistic providers in Israel who is using Mantis’ WMS (LV) since 2009.

Champion Motors is also part of the Allied Group representing the brands of the Volkswagen Group in Israel: Volkswagen, Volkswagen Commercial, Audi, Seat and Skoda.

The logistics center of Champion Motors in Kibbutz Givat Brenner, was established in August 2010 and provides service to all company brands: Volkswagen, Seat, Skoda, and Audi.

The DC provides a solution for the spare parts division, offers a high level of service to about 50 service centers which are spread all over the country, and is operated by OPSI-UPS.

OPSI-UPS based on its experience in Mantis’ WMS, Logistics Vision Suite (LVS), for over 10 years already for many depositors with different lines of business, and its confidence on the experience of Mantis working with Automated Material Handling Systems, opted to choose again Mantis as a supplier for the Champion Motors operations.

The DC infrastructure was adapted for diverse storage, the stock at the DC includes a large variety of items about 80,000 SKU, out of them about 45,000 are active. The variety of storage areas in the warehouse includes shelf system for storing large and volumetric items also medium-sized items, metal cages, which are being used for storing items and semi-automatic system for storing very small items. This system includes three horizontal turnstiles horizontal carousels and each carousel contains about 10,000 different locations, whenever the storage units are modular and their size can be changed.

To increase its efficiency and productivity and to optimize its warehouse storage, Champion has decided to implement Mantis LVS. The LVS implementation allows optimization in all work processes, for example: LVS allows an intelligent put away of items in the double carousel – one to the right carousel and one to the left carousel – so that an item is placed in one carousel at a time while the other carousel is available and moves to where the next item should be placed.

Marvel, distributor of protection masks and safety equipment in Romania gained time and money with Logistics Vision Suite

Marvel SRL was founded in 2001 as an organization aimed at the distribution of specific products – personal protective equipment and PSI. Marvel addresses clients from all fields of activity, selling both products specific to the needs of each consumer and goods with a wide range of applicability. Shortly after the establishment, Marvel was imposed on the market of protective equipment through the quality of the products, the services offered and the professionalism of services.

The products sold have the approval of the Ministry of Labor, CE marking and are being manufactured by important manufacturers: 3M, Ansell, Moldex, Cofra, Sir Safety, Reis, Marigold, Comasec, DuPont, Sioen, Uvex, JSP, Kimberly Clark, Panda, Bicap, Puma, Bata, Lee Cooper.

In 2012 Marvel decided to open an online store and enter the e-commerce era. With the growth of Marvel and their e-commerce came the need to serve their customers better and faster. Hence Marvel decided to invest in a Warehouse Management System.

Marvel decided to opt in for Senior Software, Mantis Valued partner in Romania and Logistics Vision Suite(LVS), Mantis WMS.

With the implementation of LVS, Marvel has optimized its warehouse storage space by 30% and increased order-processing speed.

Moreover, inventory time has been reduced by over 50%, and the training of new employees takes place in just a few days. All these results and many more were obtained using the WMS system for warehouse management, from Senior Software.

Marvel’s improvements in using the WMS system include:

• Over 50% reduction in inventory times
• 30% optimization in storage space
• The ability to train new employees in just a few days, compared to 3-4 months
• Operational automation – transport documents generation, transfers between managements, etc.
• Shortened picking routes and order preparation times
• The possibility of inventory based on product areas and category
• Quick product identification
• Increased employee productivity

The Marvel team began working with Senior Software to eliminate logistics problems and warehousing challenges. According to the distributor, it was almost impossible for the employees to memorize the location of products and to prepare orders in due time. The investment in automation led to a considerable improvement in business, positive results being noticed even from the first days after Go Live.

“The benefit we felt immediately after Go Live was the ease with which employees in the warehouse identified products. This, combined with the predetermined routes set together with the Senior Software team, led to more efficient order preparation times and increased employee productivity. Inventory times decreased by at least 50%, and by reorganizing the warehouse, an optimization of space was obtained by at least 30%.”
Bogdan Spatariu, Operations Manager, Marvel.