This information can now directly manufacturing planning account, raise production orders and re-orders and thus optimise your operation. Through the automated process reduces sources of error caused by manual posting and controls the company and continuously improves the quality in the production. In the second step of the project, the RFID technology was used to optimize the storage process in an automated warehouse. The pallets carried via conveyor belts to the storage, equipped with reading devices. About this, all necessary data are transferred via wireless technology in the SAP system and allows for a precisely dimensioned, slim storage management.
In this context, also the chosen technological basis SAP proven AII. Not even three days, the new process could be mapped and integrated into the SAP system on this basis. With the integration of RFID technology in our SAP system production and logistics planners get new all production data now in real time without our business processes to model. Thus, we can optimize our production and storage processes in the future on the one hand and on the other hand once again demonstrate our leadership in innovation. Thanks to the excellent support of the Freudenberg IT we could do successfully the project in the given time and budget”, explains Frank Semling, Director business processes/IT of Hansgrohe AG.
Profile Hansgrohe AG since the company was founded in 1901 the innovations of Hansgrohe AG with headquarters in Schiltach in the Black Forest Kinzig Valley repeatedly set trends in the bathroom and created new standards in the international sanitation industry. Today, the company employs more than 3,200 employees in its 28 offices around the globe. It is produced in ten factories on three continents. Around the world the traditional applies global player from the Black Forest”as a synonym for modern, design-oriented bathroom solutions and innovative sanitary products. The Group achieved sales of 661 million in the fiscal year 2007 Euro. Short profile Freudenberg IT Freudenberg IT (FIT) provides IT services to mid-sized companies and is especially on the automotive industry sectors, discrete manufacturing, logistics, roll goods manufacturers specialized in technical trade. The internationally active full-service IT provider implements, optimizes and operates IT systems in the SAP environment and has an own MES with ADICOM software suite (manufacturing execution systems) developed solution. The FIT is represented in 12 locations in Europe, North America and Asia. According to a study by February 2008 the leading European consulting and market analysis company for the software and IT services industry Pierre Audoin consultants (PAC), Freudenberg IT with a turnover of more than two-thirds of the free market in Germany is at the top of the IT companies formed from. Contact person for the press of Freudenberg IT KG Anna r. Hohn he route 2-4 D-69469 Weinheim phone: + 49 (62 01) 80 80 00 fax: + 49 (62 01) 88 80 00 Internet: E-Mail: Hansgrohe AG Dr. Carsten Tessmer phone: + 49 (7836) 51 30 09 fax: + 49 (7836) 51 11 80 Internet: E-Mail: