SMECO, Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative, is responsible for electricity distribution and transmission across four counties in southern Maryland. Asset management and maintenance operations are supported by the warehouse at the corporate headquarters and a secondary warehouse.

The organization is using Hitachi Ellipse as its enterprise asset management system (EAM). The EAM system offers adequate support for work orders and inventory management but is a paper-based system for warehouse operations. When a work order is created, the system would print out the materials required and only identify inventory down to the warehouse level – not a specific storage location. The organization stored items in a logical manner, such as alphabetically, but did not slot for warehouse labor productivity.

Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative felt that inventory accuracy and warehouse labor task efficiency could be improved substantially, so they hired Alpine Supply Chain Solutions to assist them through the process. Click here to learn more about the solution identified and its success to date.