VMI Vending Solution (Manufacturer Warehouse Picking Fasteners)

Smart weighing shelves with lighting guidance system: Achieve efficient and precise warehouse material allocation.

Application Scenario Introduction

With the continuous advancement of industry and the internet, fastener manufacturers (suppliers/wholesalers) and large advanced manufacturing enterprises have begun adopting the VMI (Vendor Managed Inventory) model. Components such as screws and nuts from fastener manufacturers are widely used in an increasing number of large advanced manufacturing enterprises. When customers request replenishment on-site, fastener manufacturers must quickly retrieve materials from central or transfer warehouses and deliver them promptly.

Scene Management Pain Points

The variety of materials is extensive, requiring frequent back-and-forth searches across shelves to locate specific items, resulting in slow efficiency.

Each material requires manual counting, resulting in low batching efficiency, delayed delivery, and production line downtime for customers, causing losses.

Solution Overview

Intelligent weighing shelves with unmanned and automatic inventory checks, featuring low-stock alerts: illuminated warning lights (red lights continuously lit) + backend information push to prevent production line shutdowns caused by material shortages.

Automatically counts after direct pickup, displaying the quantity taken without user intervention. This improves efficiency (Yellow light on: Quantity taken < Quantity required. Green light on: Quantity taken = Quantity required. Blue light on: Quantity taken > Quantity required).

The lighting guidance system scans the material requisition form, illuminates the locations of all required materials, and quickly locates them to improve distribution efficiency.

By aligning the lighting positions, ingredients are dispensed in sequence, optimizing the material flow and minimizing redundant movement of dispensers, thereby reducing time wastage. This method can average 70% time savings in ingredient dispensing, significantly lowering labor costs for enterprises.

When preparing materials by work order, press the light button to turn off the illuminated lights, ending the material requisition at this location. Once the material handler has completed all requisitions from start to finish, all lights will be automatically turned off, and the current work order requisition will end.

The system operates seamlessly—walking, collecting materials, and lighting—all without manual counting, item-by-item verification against the ingredient list, or checking whether items have been collected.

Through the application of weighing and lighting guidance, it prevents the material handler from over-or under-weighing individual items and over-or under-allocating the entire material list. This system is widely applicable to distribution scenarios in the backend and mid-platform central warehouses and transfer warehouses of manufacturing supply chain departments.

Customer Case

Customer name	A leading fastener manufacturer in the region
Trade	Fastener supply chain service
Manage materials
Applicable products
Project context	Business process: Incoming inspection-Packaging-Warehousing-Material preparation-Outbound During the material preparation phase, temporary workers collect materials based on the delivery orders generated by end customers. Due to their unfamiliarity with material distribution locations, back-and-forth movement during preparation wastes time. Each order requires a lengthy preparation process, resulting in substantial labor costs for the company.
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Customer Value

Multi-dimensional inventory report	interconnect	high precision gravity scheme	Humanized Guidance and Early Warning
The multi-dimensional inventory report accurately reflects stock data and item usage, supporting the implementation of a comprehensive consignment sales solution.	The intelligent shelf management terminal seamlessly integrates shelf data with the central management platform, enabling effortless material information linkage to facilitate efficient operations.	The high-precision gravity system accurately identifies material states, adapting to various product shapes through tray and hook configurations.	Humanized guidance and alerts assist users in location-based retrieval. Inventory alerts enable timely and rapid replenishment. Reduces employee workload and improves operational accuracy.