PE bulk store opts for Macro warehousing system

CAPE Town-based Macro 2000, specialist in management software for warehousing and cold storage applications, now has a system up and running at a third party bulk store in Port Elizabeth. In this instance, the warehouse acts merely as a storage and distribution agent for a customer who sells to various outlets, ranging from manufacturers who require larger quantities such as one ton bags, to supermarkets, where the demand will be for smaller volumes, 1kg and 500g bags. Macro 2000 marketing manager, Anthea van Breemen, explains that product arrives in container loads for storage in the warehouse and is captured on Macro 2000’s warehouse management software. Upon receiving a copy of a sales invoice, the warehouse will pick the larger required stock (one ton bags) for delivery straight to the customer. Smaller orders, however, are picked from a full pallet, automatically replenished once empty, and the orders packed onto the correct trucks for delivery to the various delivery zones. Says Van Breemen: “The Macro 2000 system gives a complete overview of stock in the warehouse by product and receipt batch and supplies a full movement history of all stock that has passed through the warehouse and to whom and when delivered, while also producing all documentation accompanying the delivery.” She says the delivery zones are also used by Macro 2000 for calculating the delivery charges per kilometre, together with storage, other sundry charges and monthly invoices.