Capstone Nutrition

Capstone Nutrition runs a fast-paced, high volume manufacturing environment. Finished goods are produced using a four-step process. During the first step, work order components are picked and weighed. The weighed components move to the manufacturing facility and are blended together. The bulk product is then used to manufacture tablets or capsules. Finally, the tablets or capsules are packaged in inner and outer packaging to create the final product ready to be picked and shipped to the customer.

Because inventory movement is involved in the manufacturing steps, it was a challenge for Capstone to organize the component picking, record the inventory movement in a timely manner, and control the overall process. Capstone needed to capture real-time inventory movement and enforce tight controls regarding component picking and weighing. They also wanted to intelligently direct their inventory pickers to the location where to pull products from the warehouse.Prior to the implementation of the RFgen Mobile Foundations for JD Edwards solution, all raw material inventory transactions were manually recorded several days after the components were used and the finished goods were physically completed. This entailed multiple layers of manual data entry in the raw material weighing and quality checking process. Additionally, Capstone had excess inventory after weighing which needed to be returned to inventory. The time required to move the excess back into warehouse locations took away from time available to pick further work orders.