Problemidentifiering och utveckling av plocklagerverksamhet
Ellos was founded in 1947 by Olle Blomqvist and quickly grew into one of the leading mailorder businesses in Sweden. Ellos Group is in the current situation Scandinavia?s largest ecommercecompany and since 1997 owned by the French holding company Keering. Thismeant that Ellos became a part of Redcats Nordic along with brands such as La Redoute,Verbaudet , Daxon and others.2010 started a project with the aim to develop a logistic model for these products. The resultwas the department Redmap on Ellos that would serve as both a hub and distribution channelfor Northern Europe. The goal of Redmap was to increase the availability of goods for brandsit the Redcats Group and minimize the lead time.Since startup, the department has shown poor productivity. Ellos Group has thereforerequested a study aimed to identify problems in the department and find out suggestions forimprovement that will increase productivity. The work has taken place at Ellos in Viaredoutside Borås.A status report has been developed and has, together with theory, been analyzed. Based onthis strategy, several problems and deficiencies have been identified. For the purpose ofimproving the productivity two concrete suggestions was developed.The first improvement proposal suggests that the current KPIs need to be revised. In additionto this revision, the KPIs need to be used in a clever way along with their work monitoringand control. Improvement Proposal number 2 is about changing the picking methodology fortwo kinds of articles. These two should be treated as the same item type and should have acommon storage area. It will also provide a structural change. For further support of thisimprovement proposal, a pilot project was implemented.In addition to the proposals, the authors provided Ellos Group with recommendations forfurther studies. By implementing the suggestions for improvement the authors expect anincrease in productivity, which was called for.