Our retail operations grew steadily over the years and our logistics were increasingly expensive to maintain. In the end, the success of our e-shop made us realize that we had to move into automated warehousing. Most of the solutions we considered could not be tailored to our needs: the initial investments were too big and contained a lot of features we didn't need. In addition, we would have had to completely change the way we wanted to operate.

Luckily, we then found Softsys. They understood our needs and came up with a solution where we could maintain a lot of our existing systems are workflows. In addition, they knew how to work with the transport systems from our German hardware supplier.

The project exceeded all expectations. With digital modeling we could test and plan in advance - no nasty surprises during roll-out. In addition, Softsys became our partner to improve our operations in the longer term.

I'm the IT manager of a bicycle manufacturing company. I was made responsible for Industrial Automation, since all my colleagues are mechanical engineers who'd rather print our the Excel sheets than read them from a computer.

We had an issue with getting the bicycle frames moved from the welding robot into our paint shop quickly enough. It would have been easier to do a longer run for each frame and color variant, but there are so many colors these days. So, every nook and cranny was full of frames. To make things worse, our transport systems were sourced from several manufacturers, without any common communications platform.

Sofsys WMS solved our problems, together with proper simulation: the 3D models were much more easier to understand by the engineers, compared to my old network topography maps. We managed to connect all our machines to a common management system and now I can follow the movement of the frames and robot utilization from my computer. Our management finally took notice of my skills and I already let them know I might be interested in applying for a promotion ;)