Scandinavian Cosmetics consolidates their logistics with Ongoing WMS

“Ongoing WMS has made our inbound and outbound delivery significantly faster. The integrations with AutoStore and Microsoft Business Central, which we also use, keeps the risk of errors to a minimum as much work becomes automated”, says Johan Fors, Supply Chain Manager at Scandinavian Cosmetics.

Scandinavian Cosmetics is one of the leading companies in sales, marketing, and distribution of well-known brands in the Scandinavian beauty industry. The company is based in Malmö in Sweden and represents over 50 brands within skincare, haircare, make-up, and perfume.

Scandinavian Cosmetics went live with Ongoing WMS, in the early 2021, in connection with the implementation of the warehouse automation solution AutoStore. The European AutoStore partner Element Logic, has made an integration between AutoStore and Ongoing WMS, using Ongoing WMS automation API. One of the reasons Scandinavian Cosmetics choose Ongoing WMS was because of the existing integration.  

Johan continues “Ongoing WMS and AutoStore provides a very efficient solution together. For example, when outbound delivery to customer, AutoStore receives orders from Ongoing WMS that automatically gets picked. The goods are then presented to a warehouse worker who scans the goods, and the order status becomes updated in Ongoing WMS. Then we pack the order and its ready for shipment. This automated workflow allows for an efficient and accurate order fulfillment”.    

Today, Scandinavian Cosmetics has warehouses in Sweden and Denmark. The company wishes to consolidate their warehouse operations by moving all operations to Sweden, where Ongoing WMS and AutoStore is used. The consolidation is in progress and their previous warehouse in Norway has already been transferred.    

“Now, when both Ongoing WMS and AutoStore are put to practice in Sweden, we see it as the most beneficial to move all our warehouse operations there. The consolidation will create a cost-effective structure with a high service level”, Johan concludes.  

The increasing popularity of automation solutions like AutoStore is something that Ongoing Warehouse has picked up on and led to the development of an automation API. The Ongoing WMS Automation API enables automation systems to connect themselves to Ongoing WMS.

“It is important to us that our customers know that if they want to implement an automation system, Ongoing already has existing integrations. This makes it possible for more companies to use our solutions together without investing in a brand-new integration”, says Fredrik Einarsson, CEO Ongoing Warehouse.  

Scandinavian Cosmetics is one of the many companies that choose Ongoing WMS combined with an automation system. A powerful automation system together with a market leading WMS seems to be a solution that logistic intensive companies’ highly value.