DEApplication example Mill – Bakery
Increasing profitability
There is considerable potential for optimisation, and therefore cost-cutting, in storage and logistics processes. This becomes especially obvious in the example of transporting flour from the mill to the bakery. Such optimisations are, however, also transferable to many other products and lines of business. Environmental taxes, like tolls or heavy-load traffic taxes, as well as rapidly rising fuel prices bring about higher and higher transport costs. Smaller production lot sizes, greater product variety, short-term orders, product traceability and rising energy costs in production all represent additional challenges. The central compilation of customer inventory data by the supplier via WEB-VV makes far more efficient logistics possible and offers considerable advantages for both sides.
The mill looks after the bakery’s flour silos
When the mill takes over management of stocks in the flour silos of the bakeries, both supplier and customer profit. Thanks to the central data acquisition by WEB-VV, bakeries can forget the work of managing the flour stocks as well as the administrative burden of scheduling and ordering. At the same time, continuous production is assured through appropriate delivery agreements. In turn, the transparent inventory and consumption information allows the supplier to optimally control and exploit his transport capacities and plan efficient routing.
Reliable inventory data acquisition
VEGA level measuring and signal conditioning instruments for communication are installed in the flour silos of the bakeries. Experience has shown a telephone or GSM/GPRS connection to be the simplest form of communication with WEB-VV. The data transmission cycle for time and event-controlled data transmissions to WEB-VV is determined by consumption and consumption fluctuations, however, it can be changed and adapted any time with the help of remote parameterisation. The signal conditioning instruments are also able to send, in addition to regular inventory data, a notification that a minimum stock level has been reached.
