CHIVAS

A WHOLESALE & FAST

MOVING CONSUMER
GOODS (FMCG) SOLUTION
FOR A NEW SITE NEEDING
A WMS & WCS SYSTEM
AND CONFIGURATION
WITH ORACLE

CASE STUDY

BACKGROUND

T
INDUSTRY:
his Case Study is for Chivas Brothers, part of the
Wholesale, FMCG
Pernod Ricard group. It has 12 operating malt
distilleries, a grain distillery, two gin distilleries and
IWS CONFIGURATION: over 300 bonded warehouses, containing an extensive
WMS & WCS aged inventory of more than six million casks.

PROJECT TYPE: From its Kilmalid Site in Dumbarton, northwest of Glasgow

New site / On site (one of the largest sites in Scotland) some 11 million cases of
spirits are distributed to more than 150 markets around the
ERP: world every year.
Integration with Oracle E1
The site, quantity of stock and type of stock, created some
unique challenges for Invar.
HARDWARE:
AGVs, Radio Shuttle Conveyor system Sorter
system, ASRS Palletising

RF TECHNOLOGIES:
Hand Guns, Truck terminals, Terminal PC

Invar Systems Limited

t: +44 1234 436000
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CHALLENGES In addition to this project, an additional integration that
Invar has implemented for Chivas, includes:
The project involved several challenges that needed to be
addressed by Invar. It was necessary to replace old systems The bulk glass store for bottles used on production lines
installed by others that controls the finished goods store including automatic storage and retrieval cranes, multi-
comprising the following: depth (Mole) storage.

Case feed by conveyor from eight production lines.

SYSTEM BENEFITS INCLUDE:
Case conveying, automatic palletisers.
Key components of the IWS implementation are:
Automatic stretch wrapping of newly built pallets.
Integration with Oracle E1 host system.
Pallet conveying.
Integration with existing crane and conveyor controls.
Eight automatic storage and retrieval cranes.
Production order tracking.
Repalletising of stock from house-pallets onto customer
Automatic location selection and aisle balancing.
specific despatch pallets (e.g. plastic pallets for despatch to
the Far East).
Dynamic allocation of stock for despatch.
Automatic guided vehicles (AGVs).
Order segregation on lanes Automatic pallet labelling.
Shuttle car carrying two pallets at a time.
Cross docking.
Despatch lane sortation.
Multi-zone order release, with transfer capability.
Despatch vehicle loading (RF directed).
Custom reporting suite.
Sub-pallet quantity picking.

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With high volumes and an extremely demanding customer base, Chivas

Brothers required a highly resilient solution to ensure continued
operation regardless of host system availability or mechanical failure.
Invar Systems were able to achieve this by combining redundancy
features in the conveyor and crane design together with the IWS
configuration capabilities.

Please contact us to learn how Invar can help your business.

Invar Systems Limited, University Way, Cranfield Technology Park, Cranfield, Bedfordshire MK43 0EQ
t: +44 1234 436000 f: +44 1234 436001

www.invarsystems.com

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