coffee perfect: Special solution for inventory management ensures further growth

Stock reduced by 20%

With fully automatic coffee machines and fresh water dispensers, coffee perfect ensures great drinking pleasure in the office. The company has introduced the REMIRA LOGOMATE inventory management software in order to be able to meet the continuously increasing customer demand in the long term. The solution went live after just eight weeks of integration. Today, coffee perfect uses the software to manage the planning for its three warehouse locations and creates planning security for suppliers with a precise forecast. Stock levels were reduced by 20% shortly after implementation.
 
Coffee Perfect has been selling solutions for corporate beverage supply since 2015 - and has been very successful. Last year, the company recorded sales growth of around 42%. The high increases in demand could no longer be calculated precisely using the ERP system.

“In the early days, for example, our sales of coffee beans, toppings and drinking chocolate doubled every month. This means that safety and reorder levels also have to be constantly adjusted. This cannot be managed without a professional system for scheduling and inventory management,”

reports Patrick Rethmann, Head of Purchasing,

Fast implementation

REMIRA provided a quick remedy: The software manufacturer integrated its LOGOMATE solution within eight weeks. The first productive orders were triggered after just six weeks. Today, coffee perfect manages its three warehouses with the software: the main warehouse, where all goods are picked and dispatched, an external warehouse operated by a service provider and the small warehouse in the coffee perfect bistro. A total of 2,500 items were entered into the software for this purpose. The smaller main warehouse holds goods for two to four weeks. If stocks fall below a minimum range, the warehouse manager automatically receives an order proposal from LOGOMATEe. Replenishment comes from the external warehouse, which serves as an MRP warehouse and where all orders for the three warehouse locations converge. Thanks to the automated order proposals, coffee perfect was able to reduce the value of its stock by 20 percent in the first few months after introducing the software. The delivery capability for A and B articles is almost 100 percent - the Osnabrück-based company is thus actively investing in customer satisfaction and customer loyalty. In the next step, coffee perfect is also planning to connect the vehicles of its 70 or so service technicians to LOGOMATE. “We want to avoid follow-up visits to the customer. That's why our technicians have around 500 different spare parts on board. In future, we want to automate the forecasting of spare parts and the restocking of our service vehicles,” says Rethmann.

Precise planning for suppliers

Not only coffee perfect benefits from LOGOMATE, but also the suppliers. The software creates a forecast for up to twelve months. Suppliers of green coffee and packaging materials can use these figures to precisely calculate their production and shipping quantities. Rethmann explains:

“The deviation of the forecast from the quantity actually required is less than five percent. This gives our suppliers a high degree of planning security."