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Staff costs for carrying out permanent cycle counting were cut in half, with higher quality and speed. It is also planned to digitalise the remaining processes within the finished goods warehouse with ZetesMedea.

A&E Gütermann is a highly traditional and internationally active manufacturer of sewing threads. The company, established in 1864 by Max Gütermann, was once the world's largest silk thread factory. The company is now part of the US firm Elevate Textiles, Inc. With around 380 employees, it achieved an annual turnover of EUR 74 million in 2021.

• Project completion after just four months
With an area of 12,500 square metres, the finished goods warehouse provides 91,000 stock locations for 70,000 different products. Around 60 warehouse employees look after goods movements, still primarily using paper. The go-ahead for phased digitalisation with ZetesMedea, which at A&E Gütermann communicates with the SAP R3 ERP system via an interface, came in 2022. Permanent cycle counting, previously performed by two-person teams, was the most suitable candidate for the first digitalisation step. "The inventory conversion project was completed within just four months, and we expect it to pay for itself in the coming year", says project manager Oliver Maier at A&E Gütermann.