GRUPO FERÁN relies on AS Software to automate its logistics management

Grupo Ferán is a company dedicated since 1957 to the specialized distribution of books, toys and materials for education. Its headquarters in the town of San Sebastián de los Reyes de Madrid, has more than 5000 m2 of facilities, where more than 60 people work, and more than 40,000 references of its comprehensive offer are managed: literature, textbooks, toys educational, school supplies and stationery, together with a wholesale self-service.
AS Software’s AS-SGA solution has allowed them to improve various aspects of their logistics management
It has become known in real time both the stock of your items, essential to be able to show in your eCommerce the real availability of sale, as the exact location of the merchandise, to improve the productivity of warehouse operators in the preparation of orders .
Integrating the AS-SGA solution with its own ERP on Informix, a complete system of activity logs and possible errors and alarms is available in the two-way ERP-SGA interface developed between both companies through webServices, as a continuous audit of the integration.
In summary, Grupo Ferán has achieved: avoid final verifications in order preparation, significantly increase the productivity of operators (about 25%), manage stock in real time and offer a better quality of service to their customers, all This is working with more than 40,000 live references and managing work peaks of more than 15,000 line items per day, while reducing the hiring of temporary staff during their campaign periods.
José Andrés Antón, manager of Grupo Ferán, gives us his opinion on the implementation: “Our gratitude to AS Software for its help in improving our logistics processes. Highlight the involvement in the most critical moments of an implementation that had to be launched for operational reasons at a time of maximum commercial and logistics pressure. ”