Seaquist Closures Increases Productivity And Inventory Accuracy With Glacier Computers

Warehouse managers know that conducting a physical inventory can be a cumbersome, labor-intensive and disruptive process. "We used to hire 35 people to come in on a Saturday, once every quarter, to do an inventory," says Thom Raddatz, Warehousing Manager at Seaquist Closures, a leading designer and manufacturer of dispensing closures and systems. "Normally, we run 24/7, 363 days per year, except when we have to shut down to perform a physical inventory."

However, physical inventories are becoming increasingly rare, and may soon become extinct at Seaquist's Mukwonago, Wisconsin location, where closures that allow consumers to easily pour, squirt and spread everything from sports drinks and grape jelly to toothpaste and laundry detergent, are produced.

Instead of conducting quarterly physical inventories, Seaquist Closures now uses rugged mobile computers from Glacier Computer on its 14 forklifts, and warehouse management software from SAP to perform cycle counting, an inventory management procedure that systematically counts a different subset of inventory every day.