Rootstock’s Approach to Track and Maintain Load outs

Overview

About the Client

The client manufactures nutritious, high-quality animal feed that is sold through feed stores and products are sold under the different brands in the western United States. They offer a range of animal nutrition options including antibiotic-free equine feed, specialty hog feed, and nutritious chicken food tailored for layer hens, since 1970. The client produces a wide range of feeds for many species. They used Salesforce combined with Rootstock to streamline the manufacturing process.

The Challenge           

• The client aimed to scale the Load Out information that goods are hauled inside a truck that is being moved including truck plate, trailer plate, ship to, estimated shipment date/time, etc. to keep track of all the data.
• Rootstock ERP does not provide an out of the box feature to maintain load-out track weight data for tracking purposes.
• They aimed to design a structure in Salesforce CRM to maintain all information with weight and process the orders.

Our Solution

• Implemented a custom solution that allowed to store all Load out information for Weight Tickets 
• This ensured the tracking by automatically updating the data from related work orders and Sales orders.
• Blueflame Labs implemented a solution that used custom development over Rootstock structure to allow seamless data exchange between the custom and rootstock features.

Technology & tools used

Rootstock – Used Rootstock ERP Material requirements planning concepts for production planning, scheduling, and inventory control systems which are used to manage manufacturing processes. 

Salesforce- Utilized Salesforce CRM features to extend the organization’s data which allowed storing of load-out information unique to the organization.

Results

The Impact and Outcome                

• They were able to significantly enhance the goods are hauled inside a truck that is being moved allowing data tracking on a single structure.
• They were able to ensure that all information was thoroughly verified before sales order processing.
• The weighing and scaling process of their goods were getting tracked with ease and they were able to use the system for processing of the orders ensuring more accuracy and faster results.