Warehouse Execution System
Maximum Efficiency for the Beverage Industry:
Rethinking Empty Container Management!
Optimizing warehouse processes – transparency and efficiency in beverage logistics
In the beverage industry, efficient empty container management is key to keeping costs low and ensuring a smooth supply chain. This challenge affects everyone—whether you’re a producer of soft drinks, juices, beer, wine, spirits, or a beverage wholesaler. IdentPro delivers a new level of transparency to your operations through Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS) and AI-powered warehouse automation.
Overcoming the beverage industry’s challenges – the bottle cycle
How can you improve warehouse transparency?
Beverage logistics face intense competition and dynamic demands:
These challenges lead to inefficient warehouse operations, rising costs, and reduced responsiveness. IdentPro provides a specialized solution to efficiently overcome these hurdles—saving time and money.
Challenges in Empty Container Management
From bottling to retail, beverages travel a long way to refresh us. And they take the same route back. But there’s a big difference: while filled bottles are often automatically tracked right after filling, tracking empties is far more difficult. When empties are delivered by truck, the pallets often just sit idle until they’re manually scanned into the system. Yet accurate data on empty containers is crucial for planning new production batches.
The main production challenges:
- Capture: Manual, time-consuming, and error-prone process (manual scans and searches)
- Production planning: Incorrect data on empty returns causes over- or underproduction (lack of transparency leads to inefficiencies)
- Logistics costs: Excessive empty runs increase transportation expenses
IdentPro has developed a tailored WES (Warehouse Execution System) extension that is already in use across multiple companies.
How the WES Add-On for Empty Containers Optimizes Your Warehouse Processes:
Real-time tracking:
Full visibility into the location and quantity of full and empty pallets, KEGs, etc.
AI-powered optimization:
Automated assignment of forklift and AMR transport tasks
Fewer empty runs:
Smart job dispatching saves cost and effort
Cost reduction:
Manual scanning and searching eliminated; productivity increased by 30%
Seamless ERP / WMS integration (e.g., SAP EWM):
100% automated workflows without scanning
This Is How Real-Time Empty Container Tracking Works
The Warehouse Execution System (WES) combines RTLS (Real-Time Location System), LiDAR-supported forklift localization, IoT sensors, and AI-powered data processing. Together, these technologies enable automatic identification. Each load carrier is scanned once—e.g., full goods via conveyor after filling, or empties conveniently via forklift terminal. All subsequent movements are recorded automatically using sensors and RTLS—no manual scanning required.
Position data is tracked down to the centimeter. Real-time tracking allows precise monitoring of empty container movements, both indoors and outdoors. AI algorithms calculate optimal routes, maximizing forklift efficiency. Your fleet completes more jobs in the same amount of time.
Already using an ERP like SAP EWM? IdentPro’s WES integrates seamlessly and delivers real-time data.
Empty container view on the forklift terminal at Pilsner Urquell
Real-Time Control of Warehouse Processes – Automated and Reliable
IdentPro’s innovative Warehouse Execution System enables fully automated, real-time tracking of all goods movements. With LiDAR, AI, and RTLS technology, manual scanning becomes obsolete. Our AI-driven software automatically detects and processes every movement of full and empty containers with precision and immediacy.
Technical Highlights:
Benefits:
Already Implemented By:
Refresco
Refresco, a leading bottler in the non-alcoholic beverage industry, uses IdentPro’s solution for fully automated, real-time tracking of full and empty containers.
Asahi / Pilsner Urquell
Pilsner Urquell, the world-renowned brewery from Pilsen, Czech Republic, known for the original lager, relies on IdentPro’s technology to boost efficiency.
Warsteiner
Warsteiner, full transparency of full and empty goods as well as deliveries through integration of WES with SAP EWM. Empty runs were reduced and handling of returnables simplified for forklift drivers.
Why IdentPro?
Our real-time digitalization solution not only enables optimal empty container management—it also enhances warehouse automation across the entire beverage industry. Whether you’re a juice producer, soft drink manufacturer, beverage wholesaler, or brewery—we deliver measurable efficiency gains.
Discover how to take your beverage logistics to the next level with IdentPro! Contact us for a personal consultation.
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