Case Study: Schwarzkopf achieves 95% faster order picking and halves shipping staff with Sage 500 ERP

Schwarzkopf Sharpens Its Style With Sage 500 ERP

Schwarzkopf, Inc., a global hair-care products company, struggled with a cumbersome mainframe that created bottlenecks in order entry, inventory and shipping and required excessive staff time. After evaluating several packages, Schwarzkopf chose Sage 500 ERP from Sage for its ease of use, flexibility and networked PC architecture to modernize finance and order-processing operations.

Sage implemented Sage 500 ERP with financial and inventory modules, an integrated warehouse management system, bar-coding, handheld wireless order entry and the eCustomer online ordering module, fully automating order processing. The solution cut receiving turnaround from four days to about two hours, reduced order-picking time by 95%, halved shipping staffing needs and let one purchaser handle work previously done by 2.5 people—delivering clear time and cost savings for Schwarzkopf, Inc. under Sage.

Schwarzkopf

Anthony Mashkovich

Director of MIS