Case Study: Royce Too achieves a paperless warehouse and seamless ERP migration with Exenta

Royce Too Puts Its Best Foot Forward

Royce Too, founded in 1949 and acquired by Japan-based Okamoto Corporation in 2008, is a longtime U.S. hosiery designer and wholesaler for brands like Dockers and Dickies. When VP of IT Larry Warehime joined in 2009 he found the company running two distribution centers on software built for retail—unable to handle hosiery-specific data and lacking the paperless warehouse management they needed.

Royce Too implemented Exenta’s Unified Global ERP and, working with Exenta, developed a custom paperless Warehouse Management System; the full solution went from contract to launch in nine months and was brought up at a new 174,000-square-foot distribution center with no downtime. Exenta’s engine was upgraded eight times in the first 1½ years without breaking Royce Too’s application code; native EDI automation replaced a previous 1.5 FTE burden, RF-driven picking and pipeline-aware inventory reduced errors, and the warehouse now operates with about 20% fewer employees or shorter shifts while feeding improved forecasting—helping support the company’s March 2012 move of headquarters to Winston‑Salem.

Royce Too

Larry Warehime

Vice President of Information Technology