Coricraft: From Manual Inventory Chaos to Automated Efficiency
Coricraft is a leading South African furniture manufacturer and retailer that has grown from a single store to 70 warehouse and store locations over 20 years. Following a recent acquisition, the company needed to integrate disparate systems while managing explosive product growth.
“We looked at various options but none came close to Flowgear”
Manual Processes Couldn't Scale
Coricraft faced a perfect storm of integration challenges:
- 500-1,000 new product codes generated weekly from their acquired company.
- 70 separate warehouse and store locations, each maintaining individual inventory.
- Manual data entry between systems — SYSPRO ERP and the acquired company’s platform.
- Hours-long processes for inventory updates that should take minutes.
- Multi-day delays for stock movement updates between locations.
- Growing staffing costs just to keep up with manual operations.
The acquired company’s rapid product creation meant traditional integration approaches would be too expensive and time-consuming to implement.
Start Small, Expand Smart
Coricraft selected Flowgear after evaluating multiple integration platforms.
Initial Implementation Focus:
- Connected SYSPRO ERP with the acquired company’s system for inventory synchronization.
- Automated stock movement tracking between 70 warehouses and stores.
- Eliminated manual inventory reconciliation processes.
Scalable Growth Strategy: Flowgear’s cloud platform allowed Coricraft to start in one area without high upfront costs and expand capabilities over time. “As our experience with Flowgear has grown we’re finding 101 more things we can do with it,” says Gawronsky.
From Hours to Minutes
Dramatic Time Savings:
- Hours reduced to minutes for routine inventory updates.
- Days reduced to minutes for stock movement processing.
- Eliminated need for additional staff to handle growing data volumes.
Operational Impact:
- Existing staff redeployed to higher-value activities.
- Real-time inventory accuracy across 70 locations.
- Seamless integration between acquired and legacy systems.
Platform Satisfaction: “As our experience with Flowgear has grown we’re finding 101 more things we can do with it,” says Gawronsky. “Flowgear has been proven over and over,” he adds, reflecting on the platform’s consistent performance.
Expanding integration to unify retail and manufacturing.
With retail operations now running smoothly, Coricraft is expanding their Flowgear implementation to connect retail and manufacturing operations, further streamlining their end-to-end business processes.
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